Institutional Degeneration of Science

Philosophical Drops (2019)
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Abstract

Since Popper and Lakatos, the demarcation line between science and non-science has been considered one of the fundamental issues of the philosophy of science. According to Lakatos, pseudoscience is a non-science, which appears as science, using science's public authority. Since then, mountains of texts have been published on how non-sciences, such as astrology, are not sciences. But the enemy is not on the other side of the border. The enemy is in our midst. Science has been institutionalized. The best way to do the pseudoscience is to fuss inside the big enterprise recognized as a science.

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Jüri Eintalu
University of Tartu (PhD)

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