> What makes it pseudoscience is that it's not theory-driven Science is primarily empirical, and there's nothing inherently wrong with an effective theory that

> What makes it pseudoscience is that it's not theory-driven Science is primarily empirical, and there's nothing inherently wrong with an effective theory that works, until we find a better, principled theory. > It's Brian-Wansink-style p-hacking [1] at a massive scale. Sometimes. Models that generalize are in fact generating theories though.