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Pseudoscience vs Protoscience - What's the difference?

pseudoscience | protoscience |

As nouns the difference between pseudoscience and protoscience

is that pseudoscience is any body of knowledge purported to be scientific or supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method while protoscience is an unscientific field of study which later becomes a science (e.g. astrology becoming astronomy and alchemy becoming chemistry).

pseudoscience

English

(wikipedia pseudoscience)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any body of knowledge purported to be scientific or supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method.

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, pseudoscientific , pseudoscientifically , pseudoscientist}}

    See also

    * parascience

    protoscience

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unscientific field of study which later becomes a science (e.g. astrology becoming astronomy and alchemy becoming chemistry).
  • A field of study at the initial phase of the scientific method, involving information gathering and hypothesis formulation, but is not yet falsifiable, or if it is, its predictions have not yet been observed.