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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
psychiatry and neurology are working hard.
pseudoscience can be defined as scientific sounding statements that are not falsifiable by experiment.
science is mainly concerned with statements/ideas that can be disproved.
a statement like water will not freeze at 32 degrees fahrenheit if it contains salt can be tested and wither provemn false, or not. if not, that does not mean it si proven TRUE. it just means that, for now, it is a valid statement.
sometime in the future someone could devise an experiment that does indeed show that salted water can freeze at 32 degrees,.
pseudoscience howveer, makes claims that are not experimentally falsifiable.
so does religion.
saying that the blinking light you saw in the sky is a craft with beings from a planet 60 light years away cannot be tested. it is unfalsifieble.
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Why thank you for the insight, Karl Popper Instigator.