Ghostblaster Company Case Study

L. Ron Hubbard once said, “The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion” (Lindsay). He would then go on to create the religion of Scientology which is now worth almost 2 billion dollars (Matthews). Evan Kneezer, the creator of Geistology and the founder of the company Ghostblasters, seems to be following in the steps of Mr. Hubbard. Mr. Kneezer has created a company based on pseudo-science and is trying to make money off of it. There are many reasons why the Ghostblasters Company is not to be trusted but the three main reasons are as follows. The company relies on anecdotal evidence, violates the 2nd law of scientific change, and does not pass the demarcation criteria of our time. Due to these reasons we can conclude that the Ghostblasters

This is a hallmark of pseudo-science and it is a violation of the 3rd law of scientific change. The third law states that “a method becomes employed only when it is deducible from other employed methods and accepted theories of the time” (Barseghyan, 132). Our current employed method is the hypothetico-deductive method, which says that a theory can be accepted only if it explains more things than our current theory and it has some confirmed novel predictions. But the Ghostblaster Company does not want us to use this method to assess their theory, they want us to use the method of testimonials. This is very similar to the pseudoscience of homeopathy that tries to use the method of testimonials to prove that it is a real science. The problem with the method of testimonials is that it is very easy to cherry pick information that is favourable to the company. Just as people cherry pick the good times of their past to remember with nostalgia and forget the times that were not so good. There could have been 100 people with negative testimonials saying that the Ghostblaster company was terrible but obviously the company would only choose the testimonials that make them look good. These problems with the method of testimonials and anecdotal evidence show that they are very unreliable sources to prove your service