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Old 08-09-2010, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by sjastro View Post
Pathological science is a prerequisite for pseudoscience.
The fraudulent misrepresentation of mainstream science is required in order to justify pseudoscience.

Unfortunately this type of behaviour is alive and well in this forum.

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Steven
"Fraudulent" implies intent to deceive, in order to justify pseudoscience ?

If I put myself forward, as an example, my lack of knowledge or understanding, can easily lead to unintentional lapses into 'Pathological Science' ... which I would hope, is detected and highlighted by others. (I would want for no less).

I would guess that most folk are always in the 'learning' mode and thus, I might estimate that this would be the majority of what I've seen, since I've been around here. And it would seem that the 'majority' is what keeps a forum honest.

(Mind you, that last paragraph is based on 'pathological science' !!)



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