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- June 27, 2010
- 04:14 AM
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Warning Signs That Something is Not Scientific
by Barbara Drescher in ICBS Everywhere
*Some editing and language added by Barbara A. Drescher
Some people promote theories and treatments that they claim to be scientific, but are not. On this website, we often refer to such dubious claims as “woo” or pseudoscience. These often troublesome theories and treatments are widely advertised on the internet, on TV, and in the psychology or self-help sections of commercial book stores. But because some material in these venues is legitimate, it is important to know how to distinguish s........ Read more »
Lilienfeld, S.O., Lynn, S.J., & Lohr, J.M. (2003) Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology: Initial thoughts, reflections and considerations. In S.O. Lilienfeld, S.J. Lynn, , 1-38. info:/
- May 30, 2010
- 12:26 AM
- 443 views
Look! Up in the Sky! It’s an Earthquake!
by Barbara Drescher in ICBS Everywhere
Every so often a rumor starts making the rounds through social networking sites that is saturated in woo. My fiance ran across one on Facebook a few weeks ago that fit this description, focusing on the terror-evoking, sky-creeping vapor masses known as earthquake clouds. The post posited that there are certain clouds that appear in the sky that can be used to predict the onset of earthquakes. It referenced this brief article about rainbow-colored clouds over Los Angeles that were similar to t........ Read more »
ONDOH, T. (2009) Investigation of precursory phenomena in the ionosphere, atmosphere and groundwater before large earthquakes of M6.5. Advances in Space Research, 43(2), 214-223. DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2008.04.003
S. Pulinets, & D. Ouzounov. (2010) Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (LAIC) model - An unified concept for earthquake precursors validation. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. info:/
- May 10, 2010
- 03:40 AM
- 609 views
Freud and Penfield were wrong about memory and it leads to woo
by Barbara Drescher in ICBS Everywhere
Don’t get me wrong, Sigmund Freud and Wilder Penfield were far more intelligent and successful than I, but in hindsight we now have evidence that disconfirms their models of memory. The costs of having an inaccurate model of how memory works are immense. There are financial and opportunity costs to psychotherapy participants and on occasion [...]... Read more »
Goodman, G. (1994) Predictors of Accurate and Inaccurate Memories of Traumatic Events Experienced in Childhood. Consciousness and Cognition, 3(3-4), 269-294. DOI: 10.1006/ccog.1994.1016
Loftus EF, & Loftus GR. (1980) On the permanence of stored information in the human brain. The American psychologist, 35(5), 409-20. PMID: 7386971
McNally, N. (2003) Remembering Trauma. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University. info:/
Quas JA, Goodman GS, Bidrose S, Pipe ME, Craw S, & Ablin DS. (1999) Emotion and memory: Children's long-term remembering, forgetting, and suggestibility. Journal of experimental child psychology, 72(4), 235-70. PMID: 10074380
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