A short tale about pseudoscience
What if there is no right answer?
One very good example of the question, where is not answer is the tale about scientists and boys. In this tale, the boy shows the brown and white horse on the plant, and then that boy asked the scientist "what is the name of that thing?". The scientist answered that "I don't know" and then the boy said, "it's a brown and white horse". Here we must understand that the question was about the name of that thing. And how a scientist should know that name? The right form of the question would be "what is that thing?". And then the scientist would answer "horse", and then the real answer would be "brown and white horse".
Or if the scientist would answer that way, the boy could say "brown and white horse, what name is XXX", and then the answer would be longer and longer. The thing is that this tale is one of the best examples of things, where we cannot even give the right answer. This is one of the versions, where the form of the answer would also change all the time, and we cannot ask the hose, what its name is. And who knows, how other horses are calling that horse, and could we even say its name? The name what the owners of that horse use of it, or the name what other horses call that horse?
There are two types of pseudoscience, harmless and harmful.
A harmless version of pseudosciences are things like horoscopes or some other things. Most of us don't believe them, and that thing makes them look quite harmless. Of course, some horoscope could be coded messages to intelligence or some other things, but there is quite a small possibility, that this kind of thing concerns the normal people.
Also, things like the mass of the photon or some case near the black holes, where the black holes extreme gravity field would cause the situation, that the speed of light could be crossed have no mean to people. We must say that for proving that thing, we must fly to the black hole, and meter our speed beyond the singularity. That is the thing, that gives answers to us, and before that everything, what we say about that thing is pure theory.
But the harmful pseudoscience is things like playing with medicals and homeopathy. This kind of thing can cause even death. And also things like carelessness while testing medicals and other kinds of things are serious things.
We should not justify everything, what we see in the world of quantum physics as pseudoscience. But the thing is that some pseudoscience makers are good speakers, and they can make even the very dangerous things looking good. They use good-looking arguments for supporting their way to see things, and sometimes they are an appeal to religious opinions. When the motivated followers are standing in the next of those people, there are only a few persons, who can resist those quite charismatic people, and that will boost their way to say things.
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