Editing Voodoo Science (section)

==Examples cited==
* [[Perpetual motion]], [[free energy suppression]] and [[fringe physics]] claims
** [[Robert Fludd]]
** [[Garabed T. K. Giragossian]]
** [[The Energy Machine of Joseph Newman]]
** Better World Technologies (Dennis Lee)<ref>Michael Maiello (6 June 2005). {{Cite web |url=http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0606/152_print.html |title=Archived copy |website=[[Forbes]] |access-date=October 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503062928/http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0606/152_print.html |archive-date=May 3, 2007 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}. [[Forbes]].</ref>
** [[Blacklight Power]], formerly HydroCatalysis (Randell Mills)
** [[Cold fusion]] ([[Stanley Pons]] and [[Martin Fleischmann]])
** [[Patterson Power Cell]] (James Patterson)
** [[Gravitational shielding]] ([[Eugene Podkletnov]])
* [[Human spaceflight]] (in terms of actual importance to science since the rise of [[robotic spacecraft]])
** [[International Space Station]] (for claims of necessity to conduct scientific research)
** [[Gerard K. O'Neill]], [[L5 Society]] and [[space colonization]]
** [[Robert Zubrin]], [[Mars Society]], [[Biosphere 2]] and a [[human mission to Mars]]
* Voodoo science protected by [[Secrecy#Government|government secrecy]]
** [[Project Mogul]] and the [[Roswell UFO incident]] resulting in a loss of [[public trust]], as well as the later [[Alien Autopsy (1995 film)|alien autopsy]] video hoax
** [[Edward Teller]] and [[Lowell Wood]]'s work on the [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] (especially regarding the X-ray laser, but also "Brilliant Pebbles")
** [[Great Oil Sniffer Hoax]]
* Superstitions and pseudoscience
** [[Mars effect]] (astrology) claimed by [[Michel Gauquelin]]
** [[Parapsychology]] (e.g. [[Robert G. Jahn]] and [[Dean Radin]])
* [[Placebo]]s and [[alternative medicine]]
** [[Vitamin O]]
** [[Homeopathy]]
*** [[water memory]] (proposed by [[Jacques Benveniste]])
** [[Animal magnetism]]
** [[Magnet therapy]]
** [[Therapeutic touch]] (debunked by [[Emily Rosa]] at age nine)
* Other health claims
** Maharishi Effect (using [[Transcendental Meditation]] (TM) to effect a decrease in societal violence; the spike in murders during the [[Transcendental Meditation technique#TM-Sidhi program|1993 Washington D.C. study]] is specifically mentioned)
** [[Deepak Chopra]] (who makes claims linking [[Ayurveda]] (traditional medicine native to India) with [[quantum mechanics]])
** [[Electromagnetic radiation and health]] (especially related to [[Electromagnetic radiation and health#Electric power transmission|power lines and cancer risk]])
*** "[[Paul Brodeur]] and ''[[Microwave News]]'' in particular, had given the public a seriously distorted view of the scientific facts." (Page 158)
* Contributing factors
** [[Mainstream media]] reporting voodoo science uncritically as [[infotainment]]
** Abolition of the [[Office of Technology Assessment]]
** Establishment of the [[National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine]]
Park also discusses the [[Daubert standard]] for excluding junk science from litigation.