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ChristianKl comments on How do you tell proto-science from pseudo-science? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 27 November 2013 09:39:05PM 3 points [-]

It's not accepted by the majority of the scientific establishment, so it's not "science". However, it's claims don't violate known physical law.

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.