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Protoscience is to be distinguished from pseudoscience by its adherence to the Scientific Method and standard practices of good science, perhaps most notably a willingness to be disproven, or supplanted by a more-predictive theory. |
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Protoscience is to be distinguished from pseudoscience by its adherence to the Scientific Method and standard practices of good science, most notably a willingness to be disproven by new evidence (if and when it appears), or supplanted by a more-predictive theory. |
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Most typically a protoscientific field is one where the hypothesis presented is in accordance with the known evidence at that time, and a body of associated predictions have been made, but the predictions have not yet been tested. |
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Such fields as acupuncture and lucid dreaming may perhaps be best categorized as protosciences, pending more evidence and theoretical underpinning. |
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