What Is Pseudoscience?

PSEUDOSCIENCE; DEFINITION (Logic); PHILOSOPHY of science; EMPIRICISM; FALSIFICATION; SCIENCE; PRAGMATISM; POPPER, Karl Raimund, Sir, 1902-1994

The article presents the author's thoughts on the definition of pseudoscience. He notes that thinker Karl Popper declared falsifiability as distinguishing empirical science from pseudoscience; if there is a way to disprove a theory, it is scientific. The author points out the problem with this criterion is that many sciences are nonfalsifiable like theories around consciousness or extraterrestrials. Instead, he says, pseudoscience is the study of ideas that do not have pragmatic usefulness.