Can the Para become Normal and the Pseudo Science?
From ghosts, aliens and vampires to faith healing, iridology and aura therapy, will pseudoscience and the paranormal ever become accepted as fact? Can pseudoscience become science, and can the paranormal become normal? This isn’t as far- fetched as it first sounds. You probably know that the Earth was once believed to be flat, while people thought that the Sun revolved around the Earth. Until very recently, the Continental Drift theory was rejected by some scientists. Even now, the Global Warming cause and effect debate rages on… A common argument is that everyone is entitled to their own beliefs about pseudoscience and the paranormal. But to believe doesn’t entitle us to know. Fact is fact, it is objective reality, regardless of what we choose to believe. To paraphrase skeptic Roland Seidel, science is about the things that are the same for everyone, whether they believe in them or not! Which beliefs and practices become mainstream, and which ones remain as fringe, depends on the clai
