Inverted Occam's Razor

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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 unreasonable causal chains make a phenomenon plausible. Typical examples are the study of crop circle phenomena (Cereology) and of UFOs

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