IS CRYPTOZOOLOGY A PSEUDOSCIENCE?

IS CRYPTOZOOLOGY A PSEUDOSCIENCE?

Some thoughts from Ye Editor.Ye Editor (Ronan Coghlan)As your scud through the Internet or read generally, you will sometimes see cryptozoology described as a pseudoscience.  One has to ask if this is a fair description and, if not, why not.The word pseudoscience means a false science or, to put it another way, fake knowledge. This is a rather unkind way of describing it.  I would define cryptozoology as investigation into the possible truth of animals whose existence is uncertain.  This hardly amounts to fake knowledge senso strictu.  Fake knowledge refers to things which are definitely not true.  The creatures investigated by cryptozoologists are hypothetical creatures, but that doesn’t mean that trying to find out if they exist is in itself

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