ScienceScience or Pseudoscience, what’s the difference and why does it matter?  Well as I write this a big famous airplane company is having problems with their planes and there are questions about ignoring safety during manufacture.  I want to fly in a plane made by people who use science to build a plane that will takeoff fly and land safely and comfortably.

Wikipedia says, “Science is a rigorous, systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world.”

An unbiased honest scientist could have inspected or looked at the planes in question and made predictions about how they would fly or don’t.  They have tests for the doors or whatever other part is the problem, and had those tests been done they would have hopefully raised concerns and fixed the issue before flight.

So science is a method.  We observe something in…

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