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The '''Inverted Occam's Razor''' is an ironic metapher for an inverted use of [[Occam's Razor|minimalistic principles]] in Science. This principle is often used in [[Pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] argumentation, which claims that improbable causes and unreasonable causal chains make a phenomenon plausible. Typical examples are the study of [[crop circle]] phenomena (Cereology) and of [[UFO]]s
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The '''Inverted Occam's Razor''' is an ironic metapher for an inverted use of [[Occam's Razor|minimalistic principles]] in Science. This principle is often used in [[Pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] argumentation, which claims that improbable causes and causal chains make a phenomenon plausible. Typical examples are the study of [[crop circle]] phenomena (Cereology) and of [[UFO]]s
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

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The Inverted Occam's Razor is an ironic metapher for an inverted use of minimalistic principles in Science. This principle is often used in pseudoscientific argumentation, which claims that improbable causes and causal chains make a phenomenon plausible. Typical examples are the study of crop circle phenomena (Cereology) and of UFOs

See also