fringe science

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fringe science

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The term fringe science describes scientific inquiry in an established field that departs significantly from the mainstream.

Fringe science can be distinguished from some similar sounding, but pejorative in nature, categories as follows:

* Pseudoscience - Pseudoscience is notoriously lax in rigorous application of the scientific method. Reproducibility is typically a problem. This is not so in fringe science.
* Junk science - Junk science is used to describe agenda-driven research that ignores certain standard methodologies and practices in an attempt to secure a given result from an experiment. Fringe science, as in standard methodology, proceeds from theory to conclusion with no attempt to direct or coax the result.
* Bad science - Bad science might more properly be labeled "poor science" in that it is typically characterized by substandard or "sloppy" methodology. Fringe science maintains the normal standards of methodology.

A number of today's most widely-held theories (e.g.: plate tectonics) had their origins as fringe science.
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See also

* Protoscience
* Controversial science
* List of alternative, speculative and disputed theories
* Scientific fraud
* Obsolete scientific theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_science

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(... появлением многочисленных дисциплин "на стыке" - "пограничных наук", занимающихся проблематикой, не укладывающейся в рамки сложившихся ...)

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