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The Dangers of Pseudoscience

As long as we live in a society that's driven by the acquisition of wealth, not the development of humankind and intelligence as a whole, we will struggle with pseudoscience. This is a real, dangerous method of data analysis that takes funding away from people who are actually trying to draw conclusions and better humankind and history through data acquisition. However, with more pseudoscience opinions getting debunked, this is actually a good thing for real, non-theoretical scientists to show their research and have their opinions be heard...

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.