Псевдонаука защищает себя от опровержения в первую очередь с помощью отказа от точности в определениях и фальсифицируемых прогнозов. Понятие «Pseudo-Science» используется с 18-го века. Одним из первых упоминаний было в 1844 году в «Nothern Journal of Medicine, I387»: «That opposite kind of innovation which pronounces what has been recognized as a branch of science, to have been a pseudo-science, composed merely of so-called facts, connected together by misapprehensions under the disguise of principles». Современное определение частично основано на работах Томаса Хаксли и Карла Поппера. Поппер считал фальсифицируемость важным критерием для отличия науки от псевдонауки.<ref>http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE5/S&PS.html T. H. Huxley: Science and Pseudo-Science</ref><ref>>„Incidentally, the philosopher Karl Popper coined the term, ‘pseudo-science’. The examples he gave were (Western) astrology and homeopathy, the medical system developed in Germany.“ V. V. S. Sarma: Natural calamities and pseudoscientific menace. Current Science 90:2 (25. Januar 2006); „The notion of pseudoscience, as coined by philosopher Karl Popper is discussed in the context of its application to library science and its implications for selection.“ Graham Howard: Pseudo Science and Selection. Collection Management 29:2 (24. Mai 2005)</ref> | Псевдонаука защищает себя от опровержения в первую очередь с помощью отказа от точности в определениях и фальсифицируемых прогнозов. Понятие «Pseudo-Science» используется с 18-го века. Одним из первых упоминаний было в 1844 году в «Nothern Journal of Medicine, I387»: «That opposite kind of innovation which pronounces what has been recognized as a branch of science, to have been a pseudo-science, composed merely of so-called facts, connected together by misapprehensions under the disguise of principles». Современное определение частично основано на работах Томаса Хаксли и Карла Поппера. Поппер считал фальсифицируемость важным критерием для отличия науки от псевдонауки.<ref>http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE5/S&PS.html T. H. Huxley: Science and Pseudo-Science</ref><ref>>„Incidentally, the philosopher Karl Popper coined the term, ‘pseudo-science’. The examples he gave were (Western) astrology and homeopathy, the medical system developed in Germany.“ V. V. S. Sarma: Natural calamities and pseudoscientific menace. Current Science 90:2 (25. Januar 2006); „The notion of pseudoscience, as coined by philosopher Karl Popper is discussed in the context of its application to library science and its implications for selection.“ Graham Howard: Pseudo Science and Selection. Collection Management 29:2 (24. Mai 2005)</ref> |