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Science, non-science, and nonsense

A typical mistake in a pub quiz is to confuse astronomy with astrology. Astronomy is a science, a branch of physics, while astrology is a so-called pseudoscience, something that looks like science on the surface but does not actually use scientific methods nor makes statements that can be properly tested. Astronomers, understandably, get annoyed with this mistake. They point out that astronomy makes knowledge while...


Tags: natural science, pseudoscience, non-science, scope

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