Argumentum ab Pseudoscientia 

Argumentum ab Pseudoscientia, is a variation of the Argumentum ab Scientia, this is a kind of argument that seeks to consider an idea, hypothesis, concept or theory as invalid or false by using of possible flaws that exist inside it to consider it as “pseudoscientific” or even make comparisons with themes considered as “pseudosciences” such as climate denial, Flat Earth, antivax and so on. Argumentum ab Pseudoscientia is considered one of the main arguments using over the “Science Wars” and it’s even used nowadays in order to invalid opposite ideas, hypothesis, concepts and theories. A famous variation of the Argumentum ab Pseudoscientia is the Argumentum ab Fimbria, that’s a variation of the Argumentum ab Pseudoscientia but considering the theme as “fringe” or as “non-mainstream” for be considered as “invalid or false.

“The use of the Argumentum ab Pseudoscientia is really common nowadays, such as the uses of the Argumentum ab Fimbria, both kinds of arguments are well used nowadays by new atheists, anti-theists, scientificists and “skepticals” in order to invalid any idea or thing that’s opposite to them, and they use it all the time, mainly about potential evidences about multiverses, souls/spirits, consciousness, afterlife, extraphysics/nonphysics, existence of extraphysical life and so on, together with their confirmation bias as well.”

Argumentum ab Pseudoscientia by Full Monteirism April 24, 2021