I've read recently about the pseudo-scientific way Nazi Germany and others approached race. I wonder if there are still similar things - ideas that we consider scientific but actually aren't.
I worked on a device that used kirlian imaging to scan your body's health using only "finger prints". The founder of the company could tell from no prior knowledge that I had to pee at the time of the evaluation and I also had a back injury a few years ago. Lot's of people would argue this isn't scientific, but we used known diagnosis from current medical practices related to heart disease, we were able to establish 95% confidence whether a person was at risk of cardiac failure just based on their finger tips.
Most political biases. That is, people think that their own opinion is based on a sound understanding of statistics, but in reality they are manipulated by their news outlet of choice. It happens on all sides of the political spectrum.<p>That's the closest similarity that i can come up with at the moment.
A LOT of academic research right now... specifically in the "soft sciences" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis</a>