I know that if I try to apply the scientific method to stuff I’ve made up, it will fail, because . . . I made it up. Pseudoscience, on the other hand, is posing as the real thing, even though it, too, is a fiction. It’s claiming that the world is different than it actually is, rather than suggesting that the world could be different than it actually is. And that’s infinitely worse than just telling a bad story, because in many cases, you’re playing with people’s lives.
