ous events should be explained first with recourse to known principles, also as supported by the data. These principles suggest that a scientific belief system is based on observation and data and not on superstition or preference. Pseudoscience tries to masquerade as science while developing theories on the basis of skimpy or no objective evidence, and it is at heart a system of preference rather than proof. It is also often based on the false notion that our behavior is governed by conscious processes rather than unconscious ones, and a pseudoscientific psychology can indeed take advantage of the truth to insist that all sorts of non-conscious processes are operating when they are not. The fact of inevitability derives from replicable experiments, which pseudoscience often fails to recognize as it makes use of one-time events or secondary accounts to create and support a theory.
The important principle here is that events and behaviors can only be explained through the application of scientific principles, through testing, and through the
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