Pseudoştiinţa şi cum o recunoaştem în profesiile care privesc sănătatea
Pseudoscience and how we recognize it in the health professions

Summary/Abstract: Pseudo-science is a phenomenon that has developed in parallel with science from ancient times to the present day, even by trying to use, through various methods, paradoxically, even the prestige and credibility of scientific discoveries in the epistemological and social. Today, pseudoscience is also propagated through the exploitation of information channels such as mass media, online environment (social networks, discussion forums), but also through academia. In this paper we draw attention to the logical errors speculated by those who propagate various scientifically invalidated therapies, present a system of criteria for recognizing pseudoscientific practices and analyze the particular case of supposedly alternative approach to scientific medicine, namely the so-called German New Medicine. It is often the case that frontier disciplines, such as medicine, clinical psychology, psychotherapy, health psychology, are deeply affected by practitioners resorting to pseudo-scientific theories and practices.

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