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If it is reality that decides what works and what doesn't then: If the 1000s of gene study "works" then it isn't pseudoscience, no?

• mjburgess 2y ago
  Correct. But the problem for these areas is that they cannot operationalise "works", because there's no causal theory. There's literally just "measure this, measure that, assume some unknown mechainms with extremely strong properties that we have no evidence for ..." So we're in a very very bad situation in these cases. It isnt that mere speculation is invovled as an input, its that mere speculation is the output.
  • RandomLensman 2y ago
    Not really my experience when helping on, for example, gene array data analyses: there's often a lot of causal theory (or at least hardened hypotheses) developed going into the experiments. People don't just randomly measure things.
    • mjburgess 2y ago
      There's a wide range of activities called "genetics". I've said that many cases are science, and as you say, that would be one such case.