How to effectively critique New Age ideas?

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Part of this is a testament to the effectiveness of transparency in science. Regardless of the field, from cosmology to physics to neuroscience, there are gaps in our understanding and explanations of phenomena. And anywhere you find gaps you'll find people with dogmatically influenced agendas attempting to use those gaps and their "science" as a wedge to break open the gap to make further room for their agenda. The fact is, there are still some real, seeming fundamental questions, and just like any other landscape, people will use the terrain to their advantage, whether their aim is to increase knowledge, or something else. And it only compounds things that, from the side of philosophy, we have a very limited understanding of the nature of the scientific method and scientific practices as a whole; so there's no clear way to tell from surface features who is contributing to closing the gap, and who is just aiming to take advantage of the hole.


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