anti-scientific

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• Criticisms of anti-scientific viewpoints — are many and varied. Most seem to focus on the confusion of conceptual metaphors arising in the process of learning science and negotiating acceptance of scientific truth in the larger culture. In Western education, for instance, students are… …   Wikipedia

• Scientific racism — denotes the use of scientific, or ostensibly scientific, findings and methods to support or validate racist attitudes and worldviews. It is based on belief in the existence and significance of racial categories, but extends this into a hierarchy… …   Wikipedia

• Anti-intellectualism — describes a sentiment of hostility towards, or mistrust of, intellectuals and intellectual pursuits. This may be expressed in various ways, such as attacks on the merits of science, education, art, or literature.Anti intellectuals often perceive… …   Wikipedia

• Anti-aging — addresses how to prevent, slow, or reverse the effects of aging and help people live longer, healthier, happier lives. It includes scientific research and applications in genetic engineering, tissue engineering, and other medical advances, e.g.,… …   Wikipedia

• Scientific realism — is, at the most general level, the view that the world described by science is the real world, as it is, independent of what we might take it to be. Within philosophy of science, it is often framed as an answer to the question what does the… …   Wikipedia

• Anti-Americanism — Anti American mural in Tehran, Iran, 2004 The term Anti Americanism, or Anti American Sentiment, refers to broad opposition or hostility to the people, policies, culture or government of the United States.[1] …   Wikipedia

• Anti-evolution — is a term for systems of thought, scientific or non scientific, which argue that the biological theory of evolution is inaccurate. The term applies to most forms of design philosophy, Lamarckism, creationism, animal spiritualism, and any other… …   Wikipedia

• Anti-semitism —    anti Jewish prejudice, founded on pseudoscientific spec ulation, that devised a racially based hostility toward Jews.* Although European Jews had endured centuries of religious enmity, they had been free to counter the hostility of Gentile… …   Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik

• Anti-frogman techniques — are security methods developed to protect watercraft, ports and installations, and other sensitive resources both in or nearby vulnerable waterways from potential threats or intrusions by frogmen or other divers.Risks and threats to be defended… …   Wikipedia

• Anti-circumvention — refers to laws which prohibit the circumvention of technological barriers for using a digital good in certain ways which the rightsholders do not wish to allow. The requirement for anti circumvention laws was globalized in 1996 with the creation… …   Wikipedia

• Anti-environmentalism — is a backlash against the environmentalist movement. Anti environmentalists believe that earth is not as fragile as environmentalists maintain, citing its 5 billion year existence versus the 50 year environmentalist viewpoint. Some also believe… …   Wikipedia