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This topic has appeared in the English Wikipedia rankings 1 time. It first appeared on 2026-04-16 and was most recently seen on 2026-04-16.
Fringe science refers to ideas whose attributes include being highly speculative or relying on premises already refuted. The chance of ideas rejected by editors and published outside the mainstream being correct is remote. When the general public does not distinguish between science and imitators, it risks exploitation, and in some cases, a "yearning to believe or a generalized suspicion of experts is a very potent incentive to accepting some pseudoscientific claims".
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