| During the 1830s he also wrote a number of philosophical novels dealing with mystical, pseudoscientific, and other exotic themes. |
| It is incumbent on the scientific community to provide guidance in separating scientific sense from pseudoscientific nonsense. |
| Despite his rigid Marxism, his ideas were denounced by Joseph Stalin as anti-Marxist, pseudoscientific, and injurious. |
| Thus it should be possible to use deductive logic to derive predictions from pseudoscientific hypotheses. |
| Nevertheless, Backster has become the darling of several occult, parapsychological and pseudoscientific notions. |
| His background as a conjurer led to a second career as the world's premier investigator of paranormal and pseudoscientific phenomena. |
