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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 24.150.61.63 (talk) at 12:54, 25 March 2002. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

apologies, I am having a weird font problem and may need to reboot - I was simply trying to add "cognitive science of mathematics" as a protoscience, but doing so mangled string theory and I can't fix it.

This may be a Freudian slip but I assure you it isn't intentional...

I fixed the link; I also removed "homeopathy" as an example--it's not anything like a legitimate protoscience, or even half-legit. It's total pseudoscientific nonsense, and not taken seriously as many protosciences are. I'm willing to tolerate a sympathetic and historical treatment of it on its own page, but pages about real science shouldn't be littered with frauds. --Lee Daniel Crocker

--- What's fraudulent about homeopathy (not that I believe in it)?

Ummm... homeopathy is a protoscience in that many traditional remedies of indigenous peoples are later discovered to have real provable medical properties - so it's more proper to say that a constant stream of claims have been passed through a a medical filter, and some have passed... many more than a random sampling would admit.

there are a lot of definitions of "homeopathy" as well... maybe this just needs to be framed a bit?

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