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The first problem with the pseudo-scientific thing is that the handwaving often, I suspect, is not actually sufficient to address the problem.
mrissa: Addition, subtraction, numini...tion? mrissa 2010
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All in the name of Al Gore and his pseudo-scientific religion.
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He has written two books on the subject and become a frequent contributor to a pseudo-scientific journal called Mankind Quarterly.
Death Becomes Him 2010
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So if you want flying dragons, you have to do some kind of handwaving: you get pseudo-scientific and talk about them having lightweight bones and helium sacs or whatever inside their bodes; or you defer the question by saying they cast natural levitation spells or something; or you basically say "gravity works except in the case of dragons because I WANT FLYING DRAGONS, DAMMIT."
mrissa: Addition, subtraction, numini...tion? mrissa 2010
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It's a pseudo-scientific concept which serves to legitimate what is in fact a pure judgment call - that borrowing needs cutting.
Letters: What Osborne prefers to leave unsaid on debt and the deficit 2011
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That is why they finally ceased supporting the shill, pseudo-scientific groups that they once bankrolled. brj
James Cameron Calls Out Glenn Beck and Global Warming Deniers | /Film 2010
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Darwinian evolution theory is mainly, as far as I can tell, a highly intelligent, pseudo-scientific argument against conventional notions of a controlling God.
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So we are at the point where we are not allowed to push any religion, but have nothing viable to replace it with except pseudo-scientific/secularist claptrap which most scientists, if they were to be honest, would admit is a shallow distortion, not to mention quasi-deification, of what they do, which is basically fiddle around with things in a highly intelligent fashion and hopefully thereby learn more and can then make more and better things.
British Rebels 2009
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Darwinian evolution theory is mainly, as far as I can tell, a highly intelligent, pseudo-scientific argument against conventional notions of a controlling God.
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He has written two books on the subject and become a frequent contributor to a pseudo-scientific journal called Mankind Quarterly.
Death Becomes Him 2010
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