Before I was a Scientologist, I never agreed with psychiatry and I know that psychiatry is a pseudoscience. |
Intelligent design had been viewed as a pseudoscience because it refused to limit nature to the operation of blind material processes. |
A pseudoscience is set of ideas based on theories put forth as scientific when they are not scientific. |
Another common theme is the debunking of the fringe pseudosciences or other untenable positions. |
And some courts have taken judicial notice of the irrationality of certain pseudosciences, including phrenology and astrology. |
Licensure of practitioners of various pseudosciences is often treated as endorsement and as a gateway to greater privileges. |