1. Pseudoscience: an Introduction
GEN_LA Week 6

2. Unorthodox science as a popular activity
Conspiracy Theory vs Pseudoscience

3. Important questions What is “pseudoscience”?
Is there an objective definition for “pseudoscience”
Should there be an objective definition for “pseudoscience”?
What should be considered as “pseudoscience”?
Would answers to the questions above change over time?

4. Strategies of Pseudoscience
Use of unnecessary jargons, or using jargons without giving clear definitions
Using analogy as a key component of argumentation
Proposing non-falsifiable theories
Selectively report experiment findings …

5. Case study
Bijective, n-Dimensional, Naturally Injective Probability Spaces and Singular Calculus
(2) The Unified Spacememory Network: from Cosmogenesis to Consciousness
Some existence results for W-multiply closed polytopes
A novel intact circular dsRNA supercoil

6. How to tell apart pseudoscience from mainstream science?
(1) Look for jargons: are the readers expected to know them? Are those jargons unexplained?
(2) What’s the form of argumentation? Experimental data? Deductive logic? Analogy?
(3) Is the paper trying to bridge two fields without providing a clear connection between the two? (Journal of Neuroquantology?)
(4) Join ISP.