Any movement, corporation or set of corporations (conglomerate) with a single prominent leader that proposes a significant new knowledge, say with an inspiration from some traditional culture, is necessarily a cult. The leader is necessarily a pseudo scientific guru. Any attempt to connect their knowledge to some well known scientific theory is necessarily pseudoscience.
By new knowledge, I mean a structured knowledge with components that are provided with the intention to support each other. Also, the existence of a prominent leader is important. Organizations such as Yahoo inc. or Google inc. would not fit at all the above criteria.
I just asked almost the same question in General - Science & Mathematics. I hope it is not a duplication. I think that physicists are the most concerned.
Can you provide any possible exception to this criteria, even in principle? The idea is that, if no exception is provided, even in principle, then it is the criteria used by people.
2007-07-27
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