Astronomy has, as its most prominent pseudoscience, astrology But because I work mainly with planets, and because I’ve been interested in the possibility of extraterrestrial life, the pseudo-sciences that most often park themselves on my doorstep involve other worlds and what we have come so easily in our time to - the discipline out of which it emerged. Meteorologists, so far, have long-range weather forecasting, as in the sunspot-oriented Farmer’s Almanac (although long-term climate forecasting is another matter). Economists have long-range economic forecasting.
Psychologists have much of psychoanalysis and almost all of parapsychology. Physicists have perpetual motion machines, an army of amateur relativity disprovers, and perhaps cold fusion. Archaeologists have ancient astronauts, forged runes and spurious statuary. Botanists have plants whose passionate emotional lives can be monitored with He detectors, anthropologists have surviving ape-men, zoologists have extant dinosaurs, and evolutionary biologists have Biblical literalists snapping at their flanks.
GREAT STONE FACE OF MARS PLUS
Geophysicists have flat Earths, hollow Earths, Earths with wildly bobbing axes to contend with, rapidly rising and sinking continents, plus earthquake prophets.
The Man in the Moon and the Face on Marsĭu Fu, Travelling at Night’ (China, Tang Dynasty, 765)Įach field of science has its own complement of pseudo-science. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (1997) Chapter 3.
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