Distinguishing Science and Pseudoscience


	Distinguishing Science and Pseudoscience

davboz

9-30-2009 8:04 PM

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davboz says:

# Penetrating political systems, it justifies atrocities in the name of racial purity
# Penetrating the educational system, it can drive out science and sensibility;
# In the field of health, it dooms thousands to unnecessary death or suffering
# Penetrating religion, it generates fanaticism, intolerance, and holy war
# Penetrating the communications media, it can make it difficult for voters to obtain factual information on important public issues

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Joe Blow puts jello on his head and his headache goes away. To pseudoscience, this means jello cures headaches.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pseudo.html">Pseudoscience depends on arbitrary conventions of human 
culture, rather than on unchanging regularities of nature. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pseudo.html">Pseudoscience attempts to persuade with rhetoric, propaganda, and 
misrepresentation rather than valid evidence (which presumably does not exist).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pseudo.html"><STRONG>Pseudoscience argues from alleged exceptions, errors, anomalies, strange events, 
and suspect claims—rather than from well-established regularities of nature.</STRONG> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pseudo.html">Pseudoscience appeals to false authority, to emotion, 
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