{"id":926,"date":"2019-09-02T00:34:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T04:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/?page_id=926"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T23:24:08","slug":"6-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/part-5\/6-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#128194;  6.3 Science, Pseudoscience and the Demarcation Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is surprisingly difficult to distinguish between real science and the impostors that look like science but are in fact doing something different &#8212; pseudoscience. This is in part because pseudo-scientific theories take pains to disguise themselves as science, but it is also because it is very hard to draw a clear line separating science from non-science. This is known in philosophy as the &#8220;demarcation problem.&#8221; Read more about it here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/what-is-pseudoscience\/\">What Is Pseudoscience?<\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is surprisingly difficult to distinguish between real science and the impostors that look like science but are in fact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-926","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4654,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/926\/revisions\/4654"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}