Dr Stephen Law: What is Pseudoscience? [Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub]

What is Pseudoscience? How do we distinguish science from Pseudoscience? Does the key lie in falsifiability, as Popper supposed? Can it be defined? I will look at some classic attempts to pin down what pseudoscience is. I’ll reject Popper’s way of demarcating science from pseudoscience, compare pseudoscience to bullshit, and make a suggestion of my own.

Stephen Law is a philosopher now based at the University of Oxford’s Department of Continuing Education. He is the author of many books, including Believing Bullshit, The Philosophy Gym, and The Great Philosophers.