Hosting an event at a respectable venue confers undeserved legitimacy on pseudoscience.

Evidence

For educational institutions, universities, seminar houses and the like, this demarcation is particularly important, since the place where an event takes place or the provider of a lecture or seminar can already convey respectability. Examples are: The guru yoga group that offers meditation courses for UN employees and henceforth calls itself a cooperation partner of the UN; the pseudo-scientific bioresonance offer that rents university premises for a conference and thus gives itself an apparently scientific veneer; the recognized educational institute of the Chamber of Commerce that also offers courses on aura reading. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 597

Categorization

• SEED: Venue-as-legitimacy is a rich angle: how institutional affiliation launders credibility, applicable to conferences, credentials, and influencer platforms.
• CANDY: The guru yoga group rebranding itself a ‘cooperation partner of the UN’ over meditation courses is a compact, shareable example.