[WikiEN-l] Parascience subst. pseudoscience

Sat Dec 17 15:48:48 UTC 2005

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.

- d.