Appendix I: Pseudo-Science And Anti-Science | The Philosophy Of Science by Steven Gussman [1st Edition]
“Pseudoscience is easier to contrive than science, because distracting confrontations with reality —where we cannot control the outcome of the comparison—are more readily avoided. The standards of argument, what passes for evidence, are much more relaxed.” – Carl Sagan I PSEUDO-SCIENCE Pseudo-science has the appearance of science, especially to the layperson, but none of the substance. Precisely because the sciences have had so much success at explaining the cosmos, its philosophical competitors, and mere hucksters and salesman, have attempted to insert a patina of scientific language into their claims in the hopes that a patina of its convincing power will rub off. Pseudo-science comes in three distinct flavors: the continued belief in a hypothesis, pos...