Should Pseudoscience be Considered a Real Science?
@littlemissmistress (187)
United States
March 22, 2007 9:03pm CST
Pseudoscience can be (and often is) used to explain all sorts of "fringe" ideas, like "intelligent design," "astrology," "feng shui," "magnetic therapy," and lots of other questionable medical treatments and assorted theories.
There's a different brand of "pseudoscience" in use in plenty of online marketing scams, too -- people with a "deeper, magical" understanding of how the internet works all promise to throw piles of money in our pockets if we'll just sign up for their "cheap" system (for only $39.95!).
It's obvious that a lot of this stuff would be immediately debunked if subjected to the rigors of proper scientific methodology, but what (if any) of the so-called "pseudosciences" are actually worth a real look? Which one's do you believe, proven or not?
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@Fargale (760)
• Brazil
23 Mar 07
For your first question - which of these are actually worth a look - I'd say few to none. Most of them have already been completely discredited and/or fly on the face of what we know of the world today. I think one possible example of an exception would be research into ESP and telepathy; and it really is being done, extensively, but so far no compelling evidence for its existance has ever been found.
