What makes something science?

What criteria would you adopt to distinguish between something being classified as ‘science’, and something being labelled as ‘pseudo-science’?

Have a think before you click on this article here, by Michael Gordin, (Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, specialising in the history of the modern physical sciences), who explores some thoughts on the matter.

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