ChristianKl comments on How do you tell proto-science from pseudo-science? - Less Wrong Discussion
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Whether something is a science has nothing to do with whether it violates physical law for which a consensus exists within the scientific community.
Paranormal is a much better word to describe those claims.
When Feynman made up the term cargo-cult science one of is prime examples was rat psychology research. Those researchers where doing experiment but the didn't do them in a way that really tested the claims they were investigating.
Pseudoscience is when you claim that there scientific evidence for a claim when there isn't. You aren't a pseudoscientist for investigating a hypothesis.