Editing Voodoo Science (section)

==Categories==

Park uses the term ''voodoo science'' (see the quote section below, Page 10) as covering four categories which evolve from [[Delusion|self-delusion]] to [[fraud]]:

* [[pathological science]], wherein genuine scientists deceive themselves
* [[junk science]], speculative theorizing which bamboozles rather than enlightens
* [[pseudoscience]] proper, work falsely claiming to have a scientific basis, which may be dependent on supernatural explanations
* fraudulent science, exploiting [[Pseudoscience|bad science]] for the purposes of [[fraud]]

Park criticizes junk science as the creature of "scientists, many of whom have impressive credentials, who craft arguments deliberately intended to deceive or confuse."<ref name=Park2000p171>Robert L. Park. (2000). p. 171</ref>