Ray Saintonge wrote:
The difference is that "parascience" assumes good faith; "pseudoscioence" does not.
And by the way, "pseudoscience" does not imply bad faith; it implies incompetence. The pseudoscientist frequently takes the label as a personal attack because they literally do not understand why what they do is not science at all, even though they sincerely believe in what they are doing.
http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-05/new-age.html
- an article on why so many New Age advocates exhibit the reasoning skills of cheese. And feel so put-upon when people who know what science is point and say "pseudoscience": they literally don't understand what's pseudo- about it.
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