[WikiEN-l] Parascience subst. pseudoscience

David Gerard fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Sat Dec 17 14:47:26 UTC 2005


Ray Saintonge wrote:

> 20,000 Google hits is not a characteristic of a neologism.
> The difference is that "parascience" assumes good faith; 
> "pseudoscioence" does not.


The other difference is that, as you'll see if you look through the
search results, "parascience" has a different meaning entirely: the
paranormal and [[anomalous phenomena]].


- d.




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