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A recently published study (Riekki et. al. 2012) on the difference in susceptibility to pareidolia between paranormal believers and skeptics

Quantity and the Biological Context

The second half of a typical presentation of a mediocre study in biology goes something like this: a graph is

Sometimes, people who promote pseudoscience online try to reference the scientific literature. In one sense, this is progress. They are

The title, of course, is a reference to the landmark paper by Cohen (1994) in American Psychologist called The Earth

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