(September 23, 2016 at 8:54 am)Esquilax Wrote:(September 23, 2016 at 8:49 am)mcolafson Wrote: 1. What makes you think it is pseudoscience?
2. If it is pseudoscience, how does it help people?
I feel like the fact that you don't know how it helps people, such that you could just point to that and not have to ask that question, precludes it from being science right off the bat.
Scientists tend to, you know, require an understanding of the mechanism behind what's happening, before they'll accept that something is happening.
O.k.
let's say it is year 1825 anno domini, your name is Robert Brown and you are watching a phenomenon that they will later call Brownian motion. You cannot determine the mechanisms that cause this motion. Does it mean that the particles are not moving? Maybe you had too much drink and you are hallucinating?
