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Types of Pseudoscience - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 35 times
- The average score is 9 of 19
Answer Stats
| Description | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Belief that the Earth isn't actually a sphere | Flat earth | 97%
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| Use of needles to relieve bodily pain | Acupuncture | 88%
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| Type of therapy that tries to make gay people straight | {Conversion} therapy | 81%
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| Historic practice that supposedly could turn common elements into gold and silver | Alchemy | 78%
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| Branch of pseudo-medicine that cures ailments by cracking your back | Chiropractics | 75%
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| Belief that the universe has only existed for 6,000 years | Young Earth Creationism | 69%
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| Diluting a substance in water so that the water will have a memory of the substance's healing properties | Homeopathy | 66%
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| Theory that the body requires a balance of blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile | Humorism | 63%
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| Movement that claims that childhood shots can cause autism and disabilities | Anti-vaccination | 59%
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| Measurement of the shape of the skull to determine personality, intelligence, etc. | Phrenology | 56%
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| Study of non-existent animals like Bigfoot and the Chupacabra | Cryptozoology | 53%
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| The magazine Continuum supported this theory up until all of its editors died from it | {HIV}/{AIDS} denial | 31%
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| Use of a stick or rod to find water underground | Dowsing | 25%
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| Movement in the Soviet Union which denied the role of genetics in agriculture | {Lysenko}ism | 22%
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| Black Plague-era belief that diseases were caused by bad-smelling air | {Miasma} theory | 22%
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| Practice where pressure is applied to the feet to treat ailments in other parts of the body | Reflexology | 22%
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| Theory that insects and worms emerge fully formed from meat or mud rather than reproducing sexually | Spontaneous generation | 16%
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| Use of "natural" cures and foods to treat ailments rather than modern medicine | Naturopathy | 9%
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| German theory connecting the human orgasm to a universal "life force" | Orgonomy | 6%
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