Ray Saintonge wrote:
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.
And what's that process, as you understand it?
- d.