A Friend Tells You That Putting a Small Cardboard Pyramid

question 116

Multiple Choice

A friend tells you that putting a small cardboard pyramid under your bed as you sleep at night will enhance your "psychic energy" and give you "inner peace." Pseudoscientific claims like this:

• A)are irrefutable or nonfalsifiable because they use vague terms like "psychic energy" and "inner peace" and cannot be disproved or tested in any meaningful way.
• B)can be tested only using brain-imaging technology such as PET scans, MRI, or fMRI.
• C)can be tested only with natural experiments.
• D)would be unethical to test because the researcher would have to use a double-blind study.

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