For centuries, humans have longed and craved for full understanding and knowledge of the universe. Stephen W. Hawking explains in his article, “Our Picture of the Universe,” “Humanity’s deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in” (Hawking). Complete understatement and knowledge is absolutely the ultimate and definitive profound goal of the human quest. Throughout history, humans have made numerous attempts in understanding the universe. Though those attempts have used different approaches, they still longed for some sort of understanding of the universe. Those approaches have drastically changed over time. In the lecture,…show more content… ‘Your Dictionary’ explains, “Pseudoscience includes beliefs, theories, or practices that have been or are considered scientific, but have no basis in scientific fact. This could mean they were disproved scientifically, can’t be tested or lack evidence to support them” ("Pseudoscience"). Pseudoscience claims to be scientific, but lacks the evidence to back up its claims. Tania Lombrozo, from the National Public Radio, expresses that “differentiating science from pseudoscience matters is because many individual and institutional decisions depend upon our best understanding of the natural world — an understanding that science is uniquely poised to provide”(Lombrozo). Pseudoscience does not use any scientific approaches or methods. However, it does create an illusion that it does. This can potentially manipulate new knowledge as pseudoscientists create conspiracies and false claims to “set impossible expectations of research” (Gawande). Atul Gawande, in ‘The Mistrust of Science,’ expresses that “pseudoscience is the form of science without the substance” (Gawande). Pseudoscience certainly claims to be a science, but truly is a form of false claims that provide no research. Pseudoscientists tend to be very persuasive to their followers as they misleads them. Those followers are usually very firm on their pseudoscience beliefs, and completely disregard opposing views. However, as stated earlier, a true scientist should always take all research with accurate supporting evidence into account when formulating theories. Atul Gawande indicates, “Bad science has a pattern, and helping people recognize the pattern arms them to come to more scientific beliefs themselves. Having a scientific understanding of the world is fundamentally about how you judge which information to trust” (Gawande). As a scientist, it is crucial to distinguish between pseudoscience and science. Science will
