The application of pataphysical thinking to scientific practice: studying the exceptions, anomalies, and outliers that normal science ignores. While mainstream science seeks general laws, Scientific Pataphysics attends to the singular, the irreproducible, the data point that doesn't fit the curve. It's not anti-science—it's the science of what science excludes, the shadow science that reminds practitioners that every law has exceptions, every generalization hides particulars, and every model fails somewhere. A necessary corrective to the scientific will to order.
Scientific Pataphysics "Your drug worked for 95% of subjects. Scientific Pataphysics wants to study the 5%—not as noise to be discarded, but as phenomena in their own right. What's their story? What law do they obey? Maybe the exception is trying to tell you something the rule can't."
by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026
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