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The Apostate - The New Yorker - 0 views

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Natural Pseudoscience Fallacy No True Scotsman science

shared by tpakeman on 25 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • “Scientology works 100 percent of the time when it is properly applied to a person who sincerely desires to improve his life.”
    • tpakeman
      tpakeman on 25 Nov 14
       
      "Scientology works 100 percent of the time when it is properly applied to a person who sincerely desires to improve his life." A good example of a claim that fails to meet Popper's requirement of falsifiability and thus is unscientific - who can decide when something is 'properly applied'?  This is also a 'no true scotsman' fallacy.
  • tpakeman on 25 Nov 14
     
    "Scientology works 100 percent of the time when it is properly applied to a person who sincerely desires to improve his life." A good example of a claim that fails to meet Popper's requirement of falsifiability and thus is unscientific - who can decide when something is 'properly applied'?  This is also a 'no true scotsman' fallacy.
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