Pro-Science Community

A term for intelligent people who are not deceived by conspiracy theorist's pseudoscientific argument.

As a member of the pro-science community, it's easy to see through the arguments of logically challenged flerfs.

by Cletus_McTrigger August 20, 2019

Punscience

The part of your mind that is aware of how flagrant your pun-related transgressions might be. While most people have a decent amount naturally. It is a known fact that there exist among us true savages who have lost all but the most minor vestige of it.

Man, Steve be dropping mad dad jokes. The man has no punscience

by elmostacho January 2, 2016

Prosilience

Where resilience is an objects capacity to regain its shape after impact, prosilience refers to a person's capacity to grow beyond their original container after such an impact.

The concept is closely linked to post traumatic growth and anti-fragility and originated in the the Touch&Play Project and Tribe.

Rather than attempting to avoid all risk of pain and discomfort, care and attention when the inevitable hurt does arise has the potential to cultivate individual and collective prosilience.

by Touch&Play Global September 13, 2023

Parascience Theory

A body of knowledge that exists alongside or parallel to mainstream science, using some of its language and methods but operating with fundamentally different, often looser, epistemic rules. It addresses similar questions (consciousness, anomalous phenomena) but accepts anecdote, personal revelation, or untestable axioms as valid evidence. It's a neighboring kingdom with a similar-looking but distinct constitution.

Example: "The study of crystal healing as a vibrational medicine is a Parascience Theory. It uses science-y terms ("frequency," "resonance") and may cite poorly controlled studies, but its core premise—that quartz can channel healing energy—is not falsifiable within the standard scientific framework. It's a parallel track of explanation."

by AbzuInExile February 1, 2026

Parasciences

The specific, institutionalized fields that emerge from parascientific activity. These are organized bodies of "knowledge" with their own journals (often pay-to-publish), academic departments (in unaccredited institutions), and credentialing systems, creating a closed, self-referential ecosystem that looks scholarly from a distance but is untethered from the scientific mainstream.

Example: The field of "Creation Science" or "Intelligent Design." It has its own PhDs, peer-reviewed journals (Answers Research Journal), and textbooks. These parasciences create a parallel universe of credibility for their adherents, mirroring the structure of academia to launcher a fundamentally non-scientific worldview.

by Dumu The Void February 9, 2026

Parascience

A system of claims, practices, and communities that meticulously mimic the outward forms of science—jargon, graphs, conferences, titles—while wholly abandoning its core ethos of methodological rigor, peer critique, and disconfirmation. It is a parasitic aesthetic of science, designed to borrow its authority without submitting to its constraints.

*Example: "Phrenology 2.0" or much of the "quantum healing" industry. They use MRI-like images, pseudo-complex equations ("quantum entanglement explains aura alignment"), and hold "international symposiums." This is parascience: a convincing costume of science worn to validate pre-determined, often marketable, beliefs.*

by Dumu The Void February 9, 2026

Parascience

A term for fields of inquiry, phenomena, or belief systems that exist outside the boundaries of conventional scientific methodology—not because they're necessarily false, but because they cannot be adequately tested or explained by established scientific frameworks. Parascience includes parapsychology, telepathy, mediumship, psychic phenomena, astral projection, and aspects of religious, spiritual, and metaphysical experience. These domains often involve subjective experience, non-material claims, or phenomena that resist laboratory conditions. Mainstream science tends to dismiss parascience as pseudoscience, but the relationship is more complex: parascience asks questions science cannot answer, uses methods science does not validate, and explores territory science has declared off-limits. Whether this represents a frontier or a fantasy depends on who you ask.

"Science can measure what happens in my brain during meditation—blood flow, electrical activity, neurotransmitter levels. But it cannot measure the experience of unity I describe, the sense of connection to something larger. That's Parascience: real experience, real phenomena, but outside what current scientific methods can capture. Not anti-science—just beyond science's current reach."

by Abzugal February 24, 2026