Pathological Science

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pathological science is the process in science in which "people are tricked into false results ... by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions". The term was first used by Irving Langmuir, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, during a 1953 colloquium at the Knolls Research Laboratory. Langmuir said a pathological science is an area of research that simply will not "go away" long after it was given up on as ''false'' by the majority of scientists in the field. He called pathological science "the science of things that aren''t so".

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pathological science is the process in science in which "people are tricked into false results ... by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions". The term was first used by Irving Langmuir, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, during a 1953 colloquium at the Knolls Research Laboratory. Langmuir said a pathological science is an area of research that simply will not "go away" -long after it was given up on as 'false' by the majority of scientists in the field. He called pathological science "the science of things that aren't so".