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Pseudoscience

Claims wearing the costume of evidence.

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Social Darwinism

Social Darwinism isn’t Darwin’s. It’s Spencer’s — and it was never science.
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Green tea

Green tea is not medicine — it’s a culturally persistent placebo with documented harms.

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Adbusters

Adbusters diagnosed media inequality in 1989—and never updated the remedy.
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Crypto-anarchy

Crypto-anarchy doesn’t change politics—it changes how Internet users imagine political change.