Health risks of shipping pollution have been 'underestimated'. 1  One giant container ship can emit almost the same amount of cancer and asthma-causing chemicals as 50m cars, study finds. â¢ Climate change threatens 50 years of progress in global health, study says. This article is 8 years old.
See also: List of topics characterized as pseudoscience. Pseudoscience is a claim, belief or practice which is incorrectly presented as scientific, but does not adhere to a valid scientific method, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status. field, practice, or body of knowledge can reasonably be called pseudoscientific when it is presented as consistent with the norms of scientific research, but it demonstrably fails to meet these norms.
A. is a belief or process which masquerades as science in an attempt to claim a legitimacy which it would not otherwise be able to achieve on its own terms; it is often known as fringe-or alternative science.cientific explanations must be stated in clear, unambiguous terms. Pseudoscientific explanations tend to be vague and ambiguous, often invoking scientific terms in dubious contexts. Phrases such as energy vibrations or subtle energy fields may sound impressive, but they are essentially meaningless.