Talk:Psionics/@comment-184.100.157.245-20140216153137/@comment-16838895-20140302114317

Well, by definition pseudoscience is a claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status. Its more or less all theory and can be tested on a very, very rare basis. Notice something similar ? Psionics is a practice which can rarely be scientifically proven and its existence can only be validated by experience, which is the same for some of the pseudoscience practices. Now, Psionics isnt really a science but a practice which leads to the development of kinetic or psychic abilities over time. So by default with peoples claim for it to be scientific, or even the pseudoscience habit of trying to test the paranormal psionics would fall under the category of pseudoscience.

So theres nothing that can truthfully prove the existence of psionics and the same goes for pseudoscience. But while its common for pseudoscience to envelop the paranormal, technically psionics would fall under it.