A brief research essay on electroshock therapy throughout history and its application in modern medicine, inspired by Raymond Carver’s "My Father’s Life"

Following a cursory glance at the title of this article, one may, with some prima facie justification, remark that this article seems, primarily, to be about a greengrocer comparing different fruit. Religion, seems to have no connection to pseudoscience; and neither does Ancient Alien Theory with President Barack Obama.

The world has had a recession or financial crisis roughly once every ten years at least as far back as the start of the 20th century. The super smart geniuses dominating economics and finance missed them all.

Neoclassical economics as it is practiced today is not a science. It meets most of the criteria for pseudoscience and should be replaced by a new paradigm.

A brief exploration of cryptozoology.

It can be argued that Freud’s ideas of the psychodynamic view are not scientific. Science is said to be the “knowledge about the structure and behaviour of the natural and physical world, based on facts that you can prove, for example by experiments” (Oxford press 2005). According to this definition of science, Freud’s ideas do not agree with this. However it seems that it does not always matter.