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

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Comment author: hyporational 30 November 2013 05:42:37AM *  2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: ikrase 30 November 2013 06:09:25AM 0 points [-]

I guess that's right.