List of Topics Characterized As Pseudoscience - Idiosyncratic Ideas

Idiosyncratic Ideas

The following concepts have only a very small number of proponents, yet have become notable:

• Expanding Earth – historical proposal that was made alongside continental drift theory and has been all but abandoned by geologists, yet still has some lay advocates, the most famous of whom is Neal Adams.
• Lawsonomy – proposed philosophy and system of claims about physics made by baseball player Alfred William Lawson.
• Penta Water – claimed acoustically-induced structural reorganization of liquid water into long-lived small clusters of five molecules each. Neither these clusters nor their asserted benefits to humans have been shown to exist.
• Polywater – hypothetical polymerized form of water proposed in the 1960s with a higher boiling point, lower freezing point, and much higher viscosity than ordinary water. It was later found not to exist, with the anomalous measurements being explained by biological contamination.
• Timewave zero – numerological formula that was invented by the late psychonaut Terence McKenna with the help of the hallucinogenic drug dimethyltryptamine. After discovering 2012 doomsday predictions, he redesigned his formula to have a "zero-point" at the same date as the Mayan longcount calendar.
• Torsion field – hypothetical physical field responsible for ESP, homeopathy, levitation, and other paranormal phenomena.

• Welteislehre – notion by the Austrian Hans Hörbiger that ice was the basic substance of all cosmic processes.