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   ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 02:45:42 JST ✌🏿✍🏿

   The word "pseduoscientific" isn't as bad as it sounds if you decenter science as a place of truth (or if you also understand science to be a mutable and adapting means of discovery).

   Something incapable with the scientific method isn't "false" or "not true".

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 02:52:05 JST clarity flowers

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     @jalcine the thing where 1000 year old traditional medicinal practices are sometimes called "pseudo-scientific" like these things are older than the modern conception of what "science" is I don't think they're pseudo anything

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 03:43:58 JST clarity flowers

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     @jalcine even the existence of what might be more properly called "pseudo-science" (like say, chiropractic, which consistently causes lifelong health complications for patients) I think maybe points to this larger issue in western culture where Science is heralded as the only true form of knowledge and nothing can be considered true until Science has approved it (scientist proves ancient indigenous myth real!), so of course everyone is going to invoke the aesthetics of science for credibility