Infrapseudoscience

A subfield of metapseudoscience that investigates the underlying infrastructure—institutional, economic, and epistemic—that determines why something is considered pseudoscience. It examines how funding structures, journal gatekeeping, professional networks, and educational curricula produce and maintain the boundary between science and pseudoscience. Infrapseudoscience reveals that the classification is not purely intellectual but is shaped by who has power to define, publish, and teach. A practice may be deemed pseudoscience not because it lacks evidence, but because its proponents lack access to the infrastructure of legitimacy.

Example: “His infrapseudoscience analysis showed that indigenous healing was labeled pseudoscience largely because its practitioners were excluded from university labs and peer‑reviewed journals—not because their outcomes were worse.”

Infrapseudoscience by Dumu The Void April 5, 2026