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208 Teaching and Learning in General Education
marks of pseudoscience,” “the hypothetico-deductive method,” “hypothesis
and evidence,” and so on. Below, I discuss an example, drawn from daily life,
which shows marks of pseudoscience.
That the demarcation between science and pseudoscience is a crucial
topic in CT for the modern scientific world is quite obvious. Because of the
great success and huge impact of science (and technology), labels such as
“science” or “scientific” stand for reliability and quality to the general public.
Because of this, many pseudoscientific products or inventions or ideas — i.e.,
something that is said to be scientific but that is in fact not scientific — would
be labeled “science” or “scientific” so as to attract people’s attention. The
abuse of such labels is indeed serious nowadays. Critical thinkers must be
equipped with useful conceptual weapons to defend themselves against such
pseudoscientific enemies.
Figure 1. An Advertisement for an I Ching Class
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