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Popper's demarcation of:

e.g.: devoted scientists: Kepler, Einstein

never satisfied with own results

e.g.: Marxism, Adler's/Freud's psychoanalysis

its results: regarded as approximations

can be falsifiable

takes the risk of clashing with reality

consists of: bold (daring, unacceptable) conjecture

Science

based on truthfulness

looks for confirmation not falsification

immunized against criticism

observation, hypothesis, testing

Non-science or Pseudo-science