Pseudoscience – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:38:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Pseudoscience – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 A History of Medical Nonsense and Pseudoscience since the 17th Century https://brewminate.com/a-history-of-medical-quackery-and-pseudoscience-since-the-17th-century/ Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:28:07 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=152126 These widely marketed “cures” first came to prominence during the 17th and 18th centuries in Britain and the

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]]> Francis Galton and the Racist Pseudoscience of Eugenics in the 19th Century https://brewminate.com/francis-galton-and-the-racist-pseudoscience-of-eugenics-in-the-19th-century/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:00:17 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=145365 Smart people can have really bad ideas – like selectively breeding human beings to allegedly “improve” the species.

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