Pseudoscience
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A branch of science without an existing subject.
People engaged in either branch of [pseudoscience] claim it to be science, either from delusion, ignorance or greed (or all of it). [Pseudoscience] is invoked in explanations for [paranormal] phenomenons but not limited to.
Pseudoscience fails to fulfill the definition of science, e.g falsifiability, inconsistance and contradiction of existing knowledge, inabillity to make presumption based on observations or just making a testable [hypothesis] to an observed phenomenon.
Related to junk scince.
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A collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.
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a system of thought or a theory that is not formed in a scientific way:
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