Pathological science is the process by which "people are tricked into false results ... by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions".[1][2] The term was first used by Irving Langmuir, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, during a 1953 colloquium at the Knolls Research Laboratory. Langmuir said a pathological science is an area of research that simply will not "go away"â€â€long after it was given up on as 'false' by the majority of scientists in the field. He called pathological science "the science of things that aren't so".[3] talking to a friend about overunity
