On Oct 28, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis <xekoukou(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Since Science is by definition the creation of
rigorous theories that
better explain the world, if the flow of new theories are democratically
distributed, then
pseudoscience will simply vanish.
No. Science creates testable theory from observation, tests, and discards false theory
based on the testing. There is no shortage now of theory; there is a shortage of
understanding of the process, importance of falsifiability, and understanding how to test
and analyze.
The method is taught in school and yet lost by adulthood in nearly everyone.
Democratizing science to include people in the process who do not currently understand the
method does no good.
You also are conflating primary sources ( research ) and secondary sources ( analysis and
criticism ) and tertiary sources ( compenda, such as encyclopedias and Wikipedia ).
George William Herbert
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