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ChristianKl comments on How could one (and should one) convert someone from pseudoscience? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 05 October 2015 07:31:26PM 0 points [-]

I would instead recommend explaining scientific philosophy and why this has proven so successful.

How would you go about explaining that in a way to someone who thinks that Bruce Lipton is a scientist because
he was a professor of anatomy at respected university and to the extend that other scientists disagree with him that's simply a case of scientific controversy?