Fringe science
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fringe-science-166-5117469
title:
Fringe science
text:
Fringe science refers to ideas whose attributes include being highly speculative or relying on premises already refuted. Fringe science theories are often advanced by people who have no traditional academic science background, or by researchers outside the mainstream discipline. The general public has difficulty distinguishing between science and its imitators, and in some cases, a "yearning to believe or a generalized suspicion of experts is a very potent incentive to accepting pseudoscientific
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Inquiries far outside of mainstream science
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_science
date created:
2004-02-06T23:50:06Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T18:33:40Z
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