Question

Classify the following scenarios as representative of Science or Pseudoscience:

1.CBD oil is gaining popularity as a remedy for a variety of physical and mental ailments. Currently, CBD users report improvements in anxiety, weight loss, drug addiction, digestion, body pain, and insomnia.

2. Concentrated CBD oil has been demonstrated in clinical trials to reduce the occurrence and severity of epileptic events in patients with two rare, uncontrolled seizure disorders. Recently, the CBD drug Epidiolex was approved by the FDA to treat these two forms of epilepsy.

3. Edwin Hubble observed that light from distant galaxies was shifted to lower frequencies compared to nearby galaxies. This phenomenon was termed "Doppler shift" and it serves as evidence that objects in space are moving away from each other and the universe is expanding.

4. Michio Kaku is the most recent physicist to speak strongly in favor of "multiverse theory" - the idea that multiple (possibly unlimited) universes exist beyond our own universe. However, the idea cannot be tested because the multiverse exists outside and beyond our own observable universe.

Answer 1

1. The first Scenario can be classified as science . Since the fact that the CBD oil is leading to the improvemnets in different health related disorders . This can be tested and varified using experiments .

2. The second scenario can be classified as science,since the clinical trial has proved that CBD oil can be used for reducing occurance and severity of epileptic events.

3. The third scenario is also can be classified as science since it is based on observation about the change in the frequencies of light coming from the galaxies .This observation can verified by observation .

4. The forth scenario is a idea which cannot be tested using experiments or by observation since it refers to the other universe which exist outside and beyound our universe . Hence this is not science ,it is a scenario belonging to Pseudoscience.