List of disputed state-sponsored sciences
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List of disputed state-sponsored sciences
Each of the listed fields of study has all or most of the following commonalities:
- Its proponents describe it as a science (e.g. Political Science).
- Its practitioners receive government funding.
- It is taught in all relevant institutions of higher learning which receive government funding.
- Its publications are vetted in a secretive process by anonymous “Peer Reviewers”.
- It has acquired a substantial body of criticism from diverse sources.
- Its critics in general do not receive government funding.
- Its critics make numerous claims that the state-sponsored field or theory has been shown to be false.
- A notable number of its critics have been damaged in career and reputation.
- There are one or more alternative theories which are not allowed state funding.
Contents
Political Science
- Diversity, multiculturalism, inclusion
- Marxism/Cultural Marxism/Neo-Marxism
- Communism/Communitarianism
- Islamism/Islamic fundamentalism/Islamo-Leftism
- Socialism
- Progressivism
- Utilitarianism
Economics
Psychology
History
A critic might claim that history is not a science.
Medicine
Water Fluoridation
Nutrition
- The benefits of a Low-fat diet vs. Low-carb diet
- Lipid hypothesis
Biology
Alternative theories include saltation, hybridogenesis, Creationism
Lysenkoism (Past example)
Alternative theories include Race realism
Environmental
Global Warming, Climate Change
Geology
Plate Tectonics, and the accrued Objections to Plate Tectonics
Physics
Classical Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics
Alternative theories include:
Special Relativity
General Relativity
Electromagnetism/Electricity/Magnetism
Nuclear Physics
Cosmology
- Big Bang, and the accrued Objections to the Big Bang
