David Gerard wrote:
I'm coming across as much more strident in
this thread than I mean to
be. But the point is that pseudoscience is in fact *bullshit*, not
science, and there's going to be no label that doesn't puff up the
subjects with false respectability that won't soon carry the same
connotations. Because it is in fact bullshit.
Pseudoscience can very well be characterized as bullshit. However, the
process whereby certain studies and practices are classified as
pseudoscience is also bullshit.