In principle maybe. In practice, almost never does this happen.
A fun past-time: whenever one scientist on Twitter calls another scientist a 'pseudo-scientist', go to Google Scholar, type in both their names, and compare numbers of scientific citations to their work. This is often quite informative.
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Many scientists in private industry are discouraged from publishing their work. You might be drawing the wrong conclusions by focusing solely on published literature.
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Good point. But in my experience, private sector scientists rarely accuse other scientists of being pseudo-scientists.
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Better: compare h-index.
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Yes. But many people don't know what it is.
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There are thousands of barely literate works out there masquerading as science, see it very often
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And they don't get cited much, which is my point.
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I'm a pseudo-pseudo-scientist.
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Isn’t that a Phil Collins song?
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Astrologers calling astronomers pseudoscientists is quite a common sight, like when SJWs and evopsych clash.
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