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Yeah, I did notice the slight tension between the sentences, but the demarcation problem is not typically something taught alongside the scientific method, while identifying pseudoscience is.  Maybe we could split the difference and say ""Educators consider identifying pseudoscience... part of scientific literacy"".  Though there is an argument being presented here, I don't think it's one limited to Paul Hurd, even if he might be most well know for promoting it.  It seems like the solution, rather than taking a just-assert-it or just-attribute-it approach, either of which have logic behind them, that we find out who else shares this view and how broadly it is consideredeither by finding a source which addresses the scope or just more sources which echo the argument.   "