A comprehensive model adding dimensions of motivation and explanatory power. Axis 1: Methodological Soundness. Axis 2: Progressive-Stagnant. Axis 3: Falsifiability-Unfalsifiability. Axis 4: Engagement-Ignorance. Axis 5: Motivated-Ingenuous (driven by ideological/economic agenda vs. genuine inquiry). Axis 6: Explanatory-Ad Hoc (generates new explanations vs. just invents excuses for failed predictions). These six axes generate sixty-four positions. Anti-vax claims are unsound, stagnant, unfalsifiable (vaccines cause everything, so nothing counts), ignorant, motivated (ideological/economic), ad hoc (new excuses for every failure). The 6 Axes reveal that pseudoscience isn't just bad science—it's science that's bad in multiple, reinforcing ways.
The 6 Axes of the Pseudoscience Spectrum "You want to know why climate denial is pseudoscience? The 6 Axes count the ways: unsound methods, stagnation (same arguments for decades), unfalsifiable (any weather proves their point), ignorant (ignore 99% of research), motivated (fossil fuel funding), ad hoc (every new data point gets explained away). Six axes, six failures. That's not skepticism—that's a syndrome."
by Dumu The Void February 25, 2026
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