Focuses on Gilmartin's use of pseudo-scientific theories with shyness.
Creationism is useless as a teaching tool, it's also useless as a pseudo-scientific theory.
The Civil War's end also witnessed the emergence of pseudo-scientific theories concerning biological superiority and inherited social inferiority.
Even when a pseudo-scientific theory is completely worthless there is a certain educational value in refuting it.
Today, "pseudo-scientific" theories about the origin and purpose of the pyramids fill the stands of bookshops and the listings on documentary channels.
An elaborate pseudo-scientific theory of computrons has been developed based on the physical fact that the molecules in a solid object move more rapidly as it is heated.
Such pseudo-scientific theories were widely accepted at the time and motivated Britons like Livingstone to feel they had a duty to 'civilise' Africa.
One possibility is the influence of race-based ideas from the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, which were based on pseudo-scientific theories of White superiority.
He criticized politicians and media for hailing Ahmed as a national hero and for promoting allegedly pseudo-scientific theories related to water-fueled cars.
The old-style contemptuous attitude towards 'natives' has been much weakened in England, and various pseudo-scientific theories emphasising the superiority of the white race have been abandoned.