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To be fair, 'pseudo science' is both a very sweeping and loaded term. Hate to be that guy, but we have to remember that scientism and 'new age' theory can be e
by l33tbro 12y ago
To be fair, 'pseudo science' is both a very sweeping and loaded term. Hate to be that guy, but we have to remember that scientism and 'new age' theory can be equally toxic.
- joe_the_user 12y agoPseudo-science is a strong term indeed, but I'm not sure what's a clearer term for an approach that uses a dose of social authority - indeed the mantle of science, to make statements that clearly fly in the face of facts that real scientific processes have established with some accuracy. The properties of photons are very well documented. Consciousness has not been found among them. Claiming that photons have "a little bit" of consciousness based "we don't know what consciousness is so it must everywhere/in-everything" seems to rather clearly like an abuse of logic. I am not claiming the mantle of science myself to tell someone what their subjective experiences are. I'm just saying the someone merely referencing their subjective experiences doesn't refute a long string of scientific experiments.