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science
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The Scientific Method

The set of practices by which scientific claims are tested against evidence. It is not a single fixed procedure, and its most important components…

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psychology
Debunked

Facilitated Communication

A technique in which an assistant supports the hand or arm of a non-speaking person while they type, said to reveal unsuspected literacy. Controlled…

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medicine
Hypothesis

The Inflammatory Hypothesis of Depression

The proposal that inflammation causes depression in some patients. The evidence is better than for the serotonin account it partly replaced, and the…

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neuroscience
Hypothesis

Integrated Information Theory

Giulio Tononi's proposal that consciousness is integrated information, quantifiable as a number called phi, and present wherever that number is above…

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neuroscience
Hypothesis

The Glymphatic System

The proposal that the brain flushes waste through a network of fluid-filled channels, and that the flushing happens mainly during sleep. It was…

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medicine
Hypothesis

The Gut-Brain Axis

The proposal that gut microbes influence mood, behaviour and neurological disease, and that altering them could treat psychiatric and…

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medicine
Proven

Semmelweis and Handwashing

A Hungarian obstetrician worked out in 1847 that doctors were killing women in childbirth by carrying something on their hands from the dissection…

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medicine
Proven

The Randomised Controlled Trial

Assign people to treatments by chance, and the groups differ only by chance. It is a simple idea, it is the most reliable method medicine has for…

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geology
Proven

Geomagnetic Reversal

The Earth's magnetic field has flipped hundreds of times, north becoming south and back. The record of those reversals is frozen into the ocean…

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