Assessment of Pseudoscientific Beliefs Among University Students in Northeastern Mexico by José Antonio Azuela, Wendy Xiomara Chavarría-Garza, Osvaldo Aquines-Gutiérrez, Ayax Santos-Guevara, Humberto Martínez-Huerta

“…This study examines pseudoscientific beliefs among university students, focusing on gender and faculty differences at a private university in northeastern Mexico. …”
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Analysis of pseudoscientific beliefs in quantum mechanics of high school students and teachers by Walter Sciarretta, Maria Bondani, Silvia Galano, Massimiliano Malgieri, Pasquale Onorato, Italo Testa

“…For teachers, endorsement of pseudoscientific beliefs in QM depends on the type of degree obtained, QM literacy, perceived usefulness of teaching QM, and confidence in teaching QM. …”
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Deciphering the Roots of Pharmacists’ Critical Thinking About Pseudoscientific Claims: Insights from a Cross-Sectional Survey by Tomofumi Watanabe, Mari Matsumoto, Masami Ukawa, Makoto Ohira, Masaru Tsunoda

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Computer analysis of the emotional modality of 20 million publications in PUBMED database indicates ways to increase the effectiveness of pharmacotherapy by identifying pseudoscientific publications aimed at negative emotional "pumping" of doctors by V. A. Maximov, I. Yu. Torshin, O. A. Gromova, A. N. Galustyan, I. V. Gogoleva, T. R. Grishina, A. N. Gromov, A. G. Kalacheva, Z. D. Kobalava, V. M. Kodentsova, O. A. Limanova, S. I. Malyvskaya, K. V. Rudakov, I. S. Sardaryan, A. I. Sorokin, L. V. Stakhovskaya, N. I. Tapilskaya, N. K. Tetruashvili, L. E. Fedotova, A. K. Hadzhidis

“…In general, the developed system of artificial intelligence allows researchers to filter out pseudoscientific publications, the text of which is overloaded with emotional manipulation and which are published under the guise of "evidence-based standards".…”
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Institutional Distrust: Catalyst or Consequence of the Spread of Unfounded COVID-19 Beliefs? by Radoslav Merva, Jakub Šrol, Vladimíra Čavojová

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Diagnostics of parasitic diseases. Myths of the present by S. S. Kozlov, V. S. Turitsin, A. V. Laskin

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Anecdata: children’s and adults’ evaluation of anecdotal and statistical evidence by Jenny Nissel, Jacqueline D. Woolley

“…Pseudoscientific beliefs, including vaccine-related and other types of conspiracy theories, are often formed through reliance on personal anecdotes shared by people with similar belief sets. …”
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Review of the Monograph of Zardyhan Qinayatuly Kazak State and Jochi Khan» » by Zh.M. Sabitov

“…From this derive such errors as: naming Jochi with the title of khan, while he was not a khan; confusion with the localiza- tion of the Ak Horde and Kok Horde; ignorance of the fact that Abul Khair Khan became khan only in 1430; uncritical confidence in such unreliable source as Natanzi; improper and unreasoned periodization of the history of the Eastern part of the ulus of Jochi; ignorance of the fact that Berke did not come to power in 1257 but a little later; ignorance of the name of khan Tuda-Mengu when listing the Golden Horde khans; errors in compiling genealogies of the Jochids; incorrect genealogy of the Golden Horde khan Kutlug Timur and his descendants; erro- neous etymology of the ethnonym “Kazak” by attributing to it the origin from the ancient Saks; numerous errors in the chronology of the eastern part of the ulus of Jochi; pseudoscientific etymology of the origin of the term Juz from the ancient Xiongnu as well as pseudoscientific attempt to find the roots of the Kazakh ethnic territory in the realm of the Black Sea Saks (Scythians).…”
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The Library as a Social Institution for Organizing Science and Society Interaction (Based on the Materials of Historical Science) by E. A. Pleshkevich

“…Using the example of the new chronology, the negative impact of pseudoscientific historical research on the historical worldview and attitude to history in Russian society is shown. …”
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Phrenology and the Rwandan Genocide by Charles André

“…Doctors should not underestimate the racist potential of pseudoscientific misconceptions.…”
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From Publications of the Difficult Years of Soviet Psychiatry (quotes and comments) by Yu. A. Aleksandrovsky

“…The intertwining of ideological, pseudoscientific, personal and career interests at that time, as in many areas of science, pushed aside the problems of creative scientific developments and created for many professionals an atmosphere of distrust, suspicion, and discredit of leading specialists.…”
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*Ubuntu* ethics and moral problems in traditional bone-healing by Cornelius Ewuoso, Ademola Kazeem Fayemi, Kiarash Aramesh

“…Also identified are the pseudoscientific aspects of TBH and a disregard for conflict of interests in the supernatural-profane bone-healing process. …”
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Pharmacoinformation studies of chondroprotectors by A. M. Lila, I. Yu. Torshin, A. N. Gromov, V. A. Semenov, O. A. Gromova

“…These methods include: 1) analysis of big data (selection of texts of scientific publications, search for new biomarkers); 2) computer analysis of texts (automatic classification of texts by content, identification of pseudoscientific texts); 3) analysis of metric maps (visualization and analysis of complex patterns, including clustering) and 4) chemoinformation analysis, including the assessment of the effect of drugs on the transcriptome, proteome and microbiome of a person. …”
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Surprising Similarities in Cognitive Footprint of Scientism and Irrational Beliefs by Petar Lukić, Iris Žeželj

“…In Study 1 (N = 1003, representative for Serbia) scientistic beliefs were more frequent than anti-scientific beliefs and, expectedly, correlated negatively with conspiracist, paranormal, and pseudoscientific beliefs. Study 2 (online community sample; 186 scientists, 147 laypeople) showed that uncritical trust in science positively correlated to need for closure and uncertainty intolerance, while uncritical trust in scientists negatively correlated with cognitive reflection and cognitive abilities. …”
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Flat Earth: From a persistent myth to a scientific metaphor by I. V. Trotsuk

“…McRaney How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion mentions this movement only on the very last pages (in the epilogue) due to the use of the concept of the flat Earth as a kind of scientific metaphor implying a multitude of different factors of the spread of unscientific and pseudoscientific ideas in the contemporary world which we prefer to perceive as a stronghold of scientific progress and a rational worldview. …”
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Radiant Painting, Radiant Matter and Radiant Energy: Science and Paranoscience by Bobrinskaya Ekaterina A.

“…The article examines Mikhail Larionov’s Rayonism in the context of a wide range of scientific and pseudoscientific ideas about radiant matter, radiation and invisible fluids. …”
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Moldovan scientific conferences: Predatory or merely misguided? by Gheorghe Cuciureanu

“…The conferences were subsequently matched against established markers for predatory conferences.Results: Of the 16 conferences, 14 accepted the manuscript; 9 issued a certificate of attendance; and 12 published the article in their proceedings, although none of the 16 charged any participation or publication fees.Conclusions: Pseudoscientific conferences are deeply embedded in the academic community of Moldova. …”
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Individual differences in associative/semantic priming: Spreading of activation in semantic memory and epistemically unwarranted beliefs. by Daniel Huete-Pérez, Robert Davies, Javier Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Pilar Ferré

“…Participants varying in paranormal, pseudoscientific and conspiracy endorsement completed a primed lexical decision task containing related prime-target words (e.g., bulb-light) and unrelated prime-target words (e.g., sock-light). …”
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Well done! Or how to Avoid Dangers of Pseudoscience: Common Standard for Research in Behavioural Analysis and Deception Detection in Aviation Security by Jenny K. Krüger, María C. Feijoo-Fernández, Signe M. Ghelfi

“…This pressing need for solutions provides ground for pseudoscientific suggestions and methods as those that are cited in an article of the References section. …”
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Conspiracy Theories Generated by Digital Anti-vaccination Communities. Netnographic Case Study of a Facebook Group by Bogna Halska-Pionka, Patrycja Cheba

“… The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the emergence of anti-vaccine groups and the dissemination of conspiracy theories on social media. These pseudoscientific conspiracy theories have led to the spread of xenophobic, racist, and potentially harmful information within society. …”
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