The Skeptics Society is a member-supported organization of scholars, scientists, historians, magicians, and the intellectually curious, that sponsors a lecture series at Caltech and publishes the quarterly magazine Skeptic , for the purpose of promoting science and critical thinking, and disseminating information on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, the paranormal, magic, superstition, fringe claims and groups, revolutionary science, protoscience, and the history of science and pseudoscience, in articles, essays, reviews, and letters. I searched the Internet and found to my amazement and great relief that there are dozens of skeptic organizations and publications. One can argue whether psychology is a science. We can however, call it a soft-science. The soft sciences are not as dedicated to empiricism.
Empiricism is the practice of relying upon observation and experiment.
A tenet is arrived at empirically, that is, through experience. Similar conclusions are arrived at through similar experience. Replication of results is the cornerstone of experimental science. In contrast, the experience of the individual is the cornerstone of pseudoscience, regardless of whether anyone else experiences the same phenomenon or whether the experience is able to be duplicated. While all science attempts to achieve results, pseudo- science has much difficulty with maintaining one variable consistently in the course of experimentation, if experimentation is used at all.