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I don't think that word means what you think it does.
SDAI-Tech1 — (archived)

"Inconceivable!"

Ok class, pay attention:

Pseudo-science is demonstrably false. In other words, speculation is not pseudoscience. Even Lindy's ice flower page is not technically pseudo-science. It's poor postulation, unsubstatiated theorizing, perhaps even the worst form of wishful thinking --but it's not pseudo until it can be proven false.

Levin's life on mars was/is not pseudo-science.
Ice houses on the moon is pseudo-science.
Creation science is pseudoscience.
Pyramids on mars now is pseudo-science, though there was a time before the data was in when it was only unsubstatiated wishful thinking.

My own theorizing and postulations are also not demonstrably false--and if anything there is increasingly more observational evidence for my view of the universe than the big bang cosmological model. It remains, by the strictest definition, a mostly unsubstatiated postulation.

So lets get it right. Few here are hard scientists, but if you, your brother and other folks here, are going to throw around a term all the time to demonize folks you better know what it means.

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