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Types of Pseudoscience

Names these historic and modern forms of pseudoscience based on the description provided.
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Belief that the Earth isn't actually a sphere
Flat earth
Movement that claims that childhood shots can cause autism and disabilities
Anti-vaccination
Branch of pseudo-medicine that cures ailments by cracking your back
Chiropractics
Study of non-existent animals like Bigfoot and the Chupacabra
Cryptozoology
Use of a stick or rod to find water underground
Dowsing
Diluting a substance in water so that the water will have a memory of the substance's healing properties
Homeopathy
Use of "natural" cures and foods to treat ailments rather than modern medicine
Naturopathy
Belief that the universe has only existed for 6,000 years
Young Earth Creationism
Theory that the body requires a balance of blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile
Humorism
Use of needles to relieve bodily pain
Acupuncture
Practice where pressure is applied to the feet to treat ailments in other parts of the body
Reflexology
Movement in the Soviet Union which denied the role of genetics in agriculture
Lysenkoism
German theory connecting the human orgasm to a universal "life force"
Orgonomy
Measurement of the shape of the skull to determine personality, intelligence, etc.
Phrenology
The magazine Continuum supported this theory up until all of its editors died from it
HIV/AIDS denial
Black Plague-era belief that diseases were caused by bad-smelling air
Miasma theory
Historic practice that supposedly could turn common elements into gold and silver
Alchemy
Type of therapy that tries to make gay people straight
Conversion therapy
Theory that insects and worms emerge fully formed from meat or mud rather than reproducing sexually
Spontaneous generation
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