Topic |
Central claim |
Comment |
Astrology |
Distant astronomical events can have a causal influence on human well-being |
Unsubstantiated by experiment and falsified by the central results of modern astronomy. |
Perpetual motion |
Work can be produced without inputing any energy. |
Periodically claimed to have been found and always debunked; violates law of local conservation of energy. |
Extrasensory perception (ESP) |
Human perception of empirical information independently of any senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste). |
No known mechanism, blind case-studies repeatedly shown to fail. |
Vitalistic chiropractors |
Body malfunction and disease is caused by imbalance in spinal "emergy" and "subluxations." |
Causal claims not taken seriously in modern medicine or science. |
Crystal healing |
Crystals placed on parts of the body can cause improvements in human well-being |
No peer-reviewed evidence has ever supported this practice. |