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

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Comment author: Ishaan 28 November 2013 07:26:17AM *  -1 points [-]

I'd say It's similar to vetting ideas by their level of approval among the general public, except, I think, rather better. However, if you're not going to solve it for yourself anyway and going to be on the internet anyway, you might well figure out what the domain expert consensus is in roughly the same amount of time and that would be better still.