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  1. Massimo Pigliucci _ Nonsense on Stilts: How to

    …the boundaries separating science, nonscience, and pseudoscience are much fuzzier and more permeable than {or, for that matter, most scientists} would have us believe. There is, in other words, no litmus test.
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  2. Richard P. Feynman _ The Meaning of It All:

    If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an 'oomph,' this theory could explain a number of other phenomena as well. So this is a good theory, is it not? No. It is nowhere near as good as the proposition that the planets move around the sun under the influence of a central force which varies exactly inversely as the square of the distance from the center. The second theory is better because it is so specific; it is so obviously unlikely to be the result of chance. It is so definite that the barest error in the movement can show that it is wrong; but the planets could wobble all over the place, and, according to the first theory, you could say, 'Well, that is the funny behavior of the 'oomph.
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