Editing Pathological science (section)

===Other examples===
Langmuir offered additional examples of what he regarded as pathological science in his original speech:<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/Langmuir/langmuir.htm| title = transcript of speech}}</ref>
* The Davis–Barnes effect (1929; after Professor [[Bergen Davis]] from Columbia University)
* [[Mitogenetic rays]] (1923; [[Alexander Gurwitsch]] and others)<ref>For a review and bibliography, see Hollander and Claus, ''J. Opt. Soc. Am.'', 25, 270–286 (1935).</ref>
* The Allison effect (1927; after [[Fred Allison]]).<ref>{{cite journal |author1-first=F. |author1-last=Allison |author1-link=Fred Allison|author2-first=E. S. |title=A Magneto-Optical Method of Chemical Analysis |author2-last=Murphy |journal=[[Journal of the American Chemical Society]]|volume=52 |page=3796 |date=6 October 1930 |doi=10.1021/ja01373a005}}</ref> (b) <ref>{{cite journal |author1-first=F. |author1-last=Allison |journal=Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, 4, 9 |title=missing title|date=1932}}</ref>  (c) <ref>{{cite journal |author1-first=S. S. |author1-last=Cooper |author2-first=T. R. |author2-last=Ball |journal=[[Journal of Chemical Education]] |volume=13 |issue=5 |page=210 |date=1 May 1936 |doi=10.1021/ed013p210 |title=The magneto-optic method of chemical analysis. I. History and present status of the method}} </ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1-first=S. S. |author1-last=Cooper |author2-first=T. R. |author2-last=Ball |journal=[[Journal of Chemical Education]] |volume=13 |issue=6|date=1 June 1936 |doi=10.1021/ed013p278 |page=278 |title=The magneto-optic method of chemical analysis. II. Construction, adjustment, and operation of the apparatus; Physical measurements; Unknowns}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1-first=S. S. |author1-last=Cooper |author2-first=T. R. |author2-last=Ball |journal=[[Journal of Chemical Education]] |volume=13 |issue=7 |page=326 |date=1 July 1936 |doi=10.1021/ed013p326|title=The magneto-optic method of chemical analysis. III. Location of minima and quantitative analysis}}</ref>(d) <ref>{{cite journal |author1-first=M. A. |author1-last=Jeppesen |author2-first=R. M. |author2-last=Bell |journal=[[Physical Review]] |publisher=[[American Physical Society]] |volume=47 |issue=7 |page=546 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.47.546|title=An Objective Study of the Allison Magneto-Optic Method of Analysis|date=1 April 1935}}</ref> (e) <ref>{{cite journal |author1-first=H. F. |author1-last=Mildrum |author2-first=B. M. |author2-last=Schmidt |journal=Air Force Aero Propulsion Laboratory Technical Report |publisher=[[Defense Technical Information Center]]|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/tr/AD0634008|volume=66 |issue=52 |date=May 1966 |doi=10.21236/AD0634008|title=Allison Method of Chemical Analysis|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{citation |title= Finding francium |series= In Your Element |journal= [[Nature Chemistry]] |page= 670 |volume=1 |issue=8|date=1 November 2009 |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.430.pdf|doi=10.1038/nchem.430 |author-first= Eric |author-last=Scerri |author-link=Eric Scerri|pmid= 21378961 | quote= Dozens of papers were published on this effect, including a number of studies arguing  that it was spurious. These days the Allison effect is often featured in accounts of pathological science, alongside the claims for N-rays and cold fusion |bibcode= 2009NatCh...1..670S |doi-access= free }}
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* [[Extrasensory perception]] (1934), where [[Joseph Banks Rhine|Rhine]] consciously discarded contrary test results because he felt they could not be correct.