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One admittedly problematic heuristic I immediately thought of is that proto-scientists are significantly less certain about their claims than pseudoscientists are.
Also, pseudoscientists very, very often seem to have either an agenda, or a desperate desire to escape epicureanism.
The problem with using agenda as a heuristic is that it could be claimed most scientists have one. Perhaps if you divided agenda into subcategories, some of those could be useful, like political or religious agenda.
I guess that's right.