Category talk:Protoscience

Could particular branches of theoretical physics also be included under this category, such as Loop Quantum Gravity, etc.? Daecon 06:36, 10 July 2008 (EDT)

I'm not sure. I suppose it would depend on whether the authorities on the field can all agree on a standard methodology for testing it. The classic example of a protoscience is psychotherapy (you know, "tell me about your childhood", dream interpretations, and all that jazz). It is recognized as being a legitimate field of inquiry (i.e. not a pseudoscience), but no one has yet worked out an agreed-upon way to apply the scientific method to the field (which is why so much of psychotherapy is untested conjecture). Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 06:46, 10 July 2008 (EDT)