Pseudoscience is the product of modern science. It is a freak in the history of human cognition and a stumbling block in the process of human social civilization. Pseudoscience, like cancer cells, stubbornly parasitizes the scientific body. As long as its immunity and resistance are slightly reduced, it will be flooded and destroy the life of science.
Some people of insight also expounded the identification of pseudoscience. Ladner, the author of Science and Fallacy, summarized the characteristics of pseudoscience as follows:
1. Pick up the wisdom of science.
2. Be good at mystifying.
3. Turn to myth.
4. Look for untrue evidence.
5. Irrefutable assumptions.
6. Draw conclusions from false similarities.
7. Use scenario description to illustrate.
8. Research by searching chapters and sentences.
9. Refuse to criticize.
10. People engaged in pseudoscience often lack or do not systematically receive professional education and study.
Pseudoscience is often the most likely to confuse people on the following issues:
1. What puzzles science, such as some mysterious life activities and the origin of the universe.
2. Complex systems with randomness and uncertainty of causality, such as judgment and prediction of the future.
3. There is nothing scientific reality can do, such as being helpless for incurable diseases such as death and cancer.
4. When people's desire for success is too urgent, such as the desire for a healthy life, it provides a basis for the prevalence of fake "health care products" and fake "health food". The inevitable limitations of science in a certain period and people's psychological desire have become the reasons why pseudoscience phenomena can emerge one after another all over the world. Therefore, in the process of development, it will become an eternal theme of science to constantly fight against the refurbished pseudoscience.
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