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Cryptozoology — Wikipedia (en)

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Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology
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Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the mokele-mbembe. Cryptozoologists refer to these entities as cryptids, a term coined by the subculture. Because it does not follow the scientific method, cryptozoology is considered a pseudoscience by mainstream science: it is a branch of neither zoology nor folklore studies. It was originally founded in the 1950s by zoologists Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan T. Sanderson. Scholars have noted that the pseudoscience rejected mainstream approaches from an early date, and that adherents often express hostility to mainstream science. Scholars have noted associations between cryptozoology and young Earth creationism. Sharon A. Hill commented on parallels between cryptozoologists and other amateur paranormal researches such as ghost hunters and ufologists, calling cryptozoology a subculture of the broader paranormal research movement.

Tema degli esploratori: storia e filosofia della scienza (deposito sistematico; ricerca «scientific method»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Cryptozoology» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology
Wikidata Q180933: «pseudoscienza folkloristica» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180933
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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