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Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method. Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims; reliance on confirmation bias rather than rigorous attempts at refutation; lack of openness to evaluation by other experts; absence of systematic practices when developing hypotheses; and continued adherence long after the pseudoscientific hypotheses have been experimentally discredited. The term pseudoscience is considered pejorative, because it
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It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.
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― Dead of Night
― Dead of Night
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Sacred Without Supernatural
(Monk Scientist Diary, 2706)
Sacred stripped of supernatural
becomes astronomically potent -
blasphemy that ends prejudice is holy,
the divine is just human at full voltage.
Theology, philosophy, all are vanity -
bow to the breeze, submit to the soil.
Enlist as disciple to the original masters,
being awakens braving the heat of turmoil.
Soil is forever illiterate,
soil is eternally humble,
yet it contains the wisdom of the universe,
for it's made of the same stuff
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― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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