The Research Of Essence,Formation And Countermeasures Of Pseudo-science

Along with the rapid development of science and technology, pseudo-science widely spreads, which cause great harm for people and society. Anti-pseudoscience fighters expose the fraudulent tricks by articles, which lets people gradually recognize the true face of pseudo-science and oppose pseudo-science. With the deepening of the anti-pseudo-science, some people think that the anti-pseudo-science have created a "three injustice of technology," which not only blow the expansion of China's traditional culture, but also hinder scientific and technological innovation of our country, suppress result of civil scientists. Therefore, Song Zhenghai, a researcher of Chinese Academy of Sciences, wrote letters by e-mail to hundreds of scholars, "don't let the pseudo-science as an excuse to destroy traditional culture, urge the words of pseudo-science out of popular law of science", and he called on the scholars to sign together by repealing the parlance of "pseudo-science", and issued "assemble network signature of the abolition of the pseudo-science parlance and collected the support of signatures of 150 scholars. Then the debate of whether to oppose to pseudo-science or not have been further sharpened. Whether to object to pseudo-science, the two sides not only fiercely controverse but also one Tiger one seat Talk programme organized by Phoenix Satellite TV have performed play killer. But what is pseudo-science, how to define pseudo-science, what is its standards of definition, there is no unanimous answer. In order to make pseudo-science more clear and more objective understanding, the paper elaborates and compares the main viewpoints of two sides of opposing pseudo-science and opposing anti-pseudo-science and attempts to clarify the concept of pseudo-science and resolves this controversy, which provides reference for the struggle of opposing pseudo-science along the road of correct and healthy development. Firstly, this paper defines the concept of pseudo-science, distinguishes fallacies of pseudo-science and science, non-science and science, and summarizes the basic characteristics of pseudo-science: subjective fake of manufacturer, making a false and deceiving the community and public, which are the basic standards of judging pseudo-science. On the basis of analyzing four standards of pseudo-science: Logical Positivism standards, Popper's falsification standards, liatos' research agenda standards and Sagade and Bong' standards of integrate definition, this paper sums up the main features and manifestations of pseudo-science, then makes a comprehensive, systematic and in-depth analysis of the formation of pseudo-science and the spread of political, economic and cultural foundation. On the basis above, it puts forward a set of scientific, rational, workable measures of treating and preventing pseudo-science.