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> All I can say is that there are disciplines and sub-disciplines/fields of study in the humanities that bear all the hallmarks of pseudo-science: extremely sma
by BlueTemplar 6y ago
> All I can say is that there are disciplines and sub-disciplines/fields of study in the humanities that bear all the hallmarks of pseudo-science: extremely small communities, lots of jargon, few journals controlled by everyone in the communities, bouncing articles back and forth between those journals, constantly mixing empirical theses with some philosophical claims ("ideal models"), and so on.
Aren't all of these kind of common to all science fields ? I mean, even in physics, you can see things like string theory... (Though calling it pseudoscience would be too harsh, it's more like 'metaphysics' until we manage to find a way to empirically test it.)
- tikej 6y agoThe difference is, that there's very advanced mathematics behind string theory and at leas that part can be checked/verified by independent researchers.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoYeah, I guess that it's harder to check logical arguments not expressed in mathematics ?