what is the difference between science and pseudoscience?

Answer 1

Science is a method; observe, hypothesize, experiment, predict. Experiments can be done by anyone, anywhere, with repeatable results. Once confirmed by experiment, the theory is used to predict new observations, which keeps the process going.

Pseudoscience skips the experiment stage. There's no attempt to get repeatable results. Because of that, there is never any new observations because there are no theories with repeatable experimental confirmation that can be used to predict new phenomena. Religion is like this, but religious teaching are not attempts to be science. When religion tries to pretend it is science (think intelligent design), it fails miserably and becomes pseudoscience, just like astrology or alchemy, which have never yielded a single theory or prediction.

Answer 2

Science is an organized, disciplined, unbiased search for knowledge of the world around us. Given the opportunity, I hasten to add to this my observations that science does not discover "facts," but rather it finds statements (theories, formulae, descriptions) as a result of having examined the real world, statements that describe what may be expected to be found under stated conditions. And, just as importantly, science is always prepared to adjust, reverse, abandon, and/or add/subtract to/from its statements, in order to more closely approach "the truth." Obviously, we can always go on from there to define "truth," which I regard as an unreachable goal (truth, not the definition) — though in spite of Zeno's Paradox, we do eventually and essentially get there. But let's not examine that can of worms….

Science and pseudoscience are exact opposites, as are rationality and religion. Science, as a working method, employs basic principles such as objectivity and accuracy to establish a finding. It often also uses certain admitted assumptions about reality, assumptions that must eventually support themselves and be proven, or the resulting finding fails verification. Pseudoscience, however, uses invented modes of analysis which it pretends or professes meet the requirements of scientific method, but which in fact violate its essential attributes. Many obvious examples of pseudoscience are easy to identify, but the more subtle and therefore more insidious and convincing cases, require better definitions of the attributes involved.

Answer 3

Science rejects theories which do not fit the data. Pseudoscience rejects data which do not fit the theory.

Put another way, science seeks to find coherent explanations for phenomena. Pseudoscience recognizes only phenomena which fit explanations.

Answer 4

True science is based on observations which are testable, and in particular, on theories which are refutable. Pseudoscience is anything claiming to be science which does not meet these tests.

Answer 5

science is based on facts that can be proven, while pseudoscience are based on beliefs, (like the belief that acupuncture works to relieve stress or the belief that smelling certain scents can take a headache away)

Answer 6

Pseudoscience isn't technology, yet masquerades as technology in an attempt to benefit the authority of technology. i'm undecided what you propose via flaws with scientific information. technology is in actuality watching what seems to be the case and being easy approximately it. in case you may think of of a extra appropriate technique to be sure what's the case let us know.

Answer 7

Astronomy is science
Astronomy is pseudoscience

Chemisty is science
Alchemy is psudoscience.

science is based on priciples that have been researched and yet to be violated like say F=m*a or the law of gravity.

psuedoscience is made to look like science to people who dont understand science.