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This 6 page paper discusses the difference between science and pseudoscience, and why EMDR is a pseudoscientific treatment. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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regard to scientific inquiry. Discussion Science and pseudoscience: One of the hallmarks of genuine science is the fact that an experiment done by one researcher can be duplicated by another
who is skilled in the art, and the second person will get the identical result. That is, the results of the experiment hold true no matter how often it is
repeated and who does it. Another hallmark of science is the fact that its fallible, what Karl Popper called "falsifiability," meaning that it can be refuted (Lilienfeld, 1998, p. 4).
This is a necessary part of true science, that its proponents will change their theories if better data or new information is discovered that negates what they have discovered thus
far. This makes the process of scientific discovery on-going and viable. But pseudosciences are different; they are "disciplines whose advocates have effectively immunized their claims from falsification" (Lilienfeld, 1998, p.
4). The claims of the efficacy of pseudoscientific processes and products are "unfalsifiable not in principle - like metaphysical claims - but rather in practice, because their proponents have found
innumerable escape hatches with which to protect their cherished beliefs from refutation" (Lilienfeld, 1998, p. 4). That is, its impossible to refute a metaphysical argument, say on the existence of
God or the soul, because there is simply no evidence either way. In principle, then, there is no way to prove claims of Gods existence true (or false, for that
matter-except one cant prove a negative). However, pseudoscience sidesteps the entire issue because the adherents of a particular discipline always have an explanation as to why a various experiment or
research project didnt work, and its never because the therapy or theory itself is flawed, its because something was wrong with the examination, test or other measurement. These pseudoscientific treatment
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