Brainwashing and Social Control 3: Pseudo-Science exists and they teach it in your schools.

Two members of the Scientific Priesthood

That science is a religion is pretty much indisputable. Science literally means "knowledge".

That people seem to claim that there can be a difference between Science and Pseudo-Science is something of a mystery to me; how can there be pseudo-knowledge? So I went to Wikipedia in order to understand why this arbitrary difference is... the article on pseudo-science was not particularly interesting, but the talk page where the argument as to what should be included in the article is very revealing.

Wikipedia carries the policy of Scientific focus: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and its content on scientific and quasi-scientific topics will primarily reflect "current mainstream scientific consensus".

How can there be a "mainstream consensus" about knowledge, there can only be a "mainstream consensus" about a working theory. A theory is not knowledge. The question has not yet been answered.

What Wikipedia says about pseudo-science is:

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual, but are incompatible with the scientific method.

"Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims; reliance on confirmation bias rather than rigorous attempts at refutation; lack of openness to evaluation by other experts; and absence of systematic practices when developing theories, and continued adherence long after they have been experimentally discredited. The term pseudoscience is considered pejorative because it suggests something is being presented as science inaccurately or even deceptively. Those described as practicing or advocating pseudoscience often dispute the characterization."

But this is exactly what happens in mainstream science; long after theories have been demonstrated to not properly explain phenomenon they are held as "fact" by the scientific establishment at least in terms of educating the next generation; evolution, gravity, etc. All these theories have been demonstrated to be incorrect in their current form... and yet to a school child they are fact.

The ultimate truth is that you cannot accept anyone words for anything; the scientific method dictates that you should discover everything for yourself through experiment.