The Sick Offspring of Science: Bad Science and Pseudoscience
The problem of demarcation between science and pseudoscience, although old, it was made central to debates about the nature of science in 1962 by Karl Popper. In this current climate of the pandemic, anti-vaccine theories and fake news, it is imper...
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| description | The problem of demarcation between science and pseudoscience, although old, it was made central to debates about the nature of science in 1962 by Karl Popper. In this current climate of the pandemic, anti-vaccine theories and fake news, it is imperative that one distinguishes between science, bad science and pseudoscience. In this paper I analyse and discuss a number of arguments related to this debate mainly from Sven Ove Hansson’s paper, `Science and Pseudo-Science` (2021). The Swedish thinker argues for the importance of identifying subtle differences between bad science, non-science, un-science and pseudoscience. I claim that in this debate the starting point is a careful analysis of well-known examples. I conclude that understanding the demarcation between those domains and the unmasking of pseudoscientific theories is vital for negotiating both the social and the scientific landscape. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d3cbfc336c50459abee7bc61f897a9822024-04-18T08:53:52ZengTransilvania University of Brasov Publishing HouseBulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov: Series VII: Social Sciences, Law2066-77012023-01-0115(64)2241250https://doi.org/10.31926/but.ssl.2022.15.64.2.13The Sick Offspring of Science: Bad Science and PseudoscienceRoxana M. Shields0Transilvania University of Brasov, RomaniaThe problem of demarcation between science and pseudoscience, although old, it was made central to debates about the nature of science in 1962 by Karl Popper. In this current climate of the pandemic, anti-vaccine theories and fake news, it is imperative that one distinguishes between science, bad science and pseudoscience. In this paper I analyse and discuss a number of arguments related to this debate mainly from Sven Ove Hansson’s paper, `Science and Pseudo-Science` (2021). The Swedish thinker argues for the importance of identifying subtle differences between bad science, non-science, un-science and pseudoscience. I claim that in this debate the starting point is a careful analysis of well-known examples. I conclude that understanding the demarcation between those domains and the unmasking of pseudoscientific theories is vital for negotiating both the social and the scientific landscape.https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VII/article/view/3287/2614sciencepseudoscienceunscientificnon-scientificcreationism |
| spellingShingle | Roxana M. Shields The Sick Offspring of Science: Bad Science and Pseudoscience Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov: Series VII: Social Sciences, Law science pseudoscience unscientific non-scientific creationism |
| title | The Sick Offspring of Science: Bad Science and Pseudoscience |
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| title_short | The Sick Offspring of Science: Bad Science and Pseudoscience |
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| topic | science pseudoscience unscientific non-scientific creationism |
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