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Continuing activity at [[Science and the nonphysical]] finally prompted my to get around to making [[Psuedoscience]] and [[Protoscience]] to complement [[What is science?]]. I'm now thinking about the possibility of starting something like [[Intelligent Design]] as a content development project within [[Doing science]]. If there really is a way to scientifically study anything, then it should be possible to have learning resources about how to conduct a scientific investigation into the possibility of Intelligent Design. However, my imagination only extends to a kind of expanded science of [[Exobiology]] that would involve searching for indications of an extraterrestrial intelligence that might have previously influence the course of life on Earth. This might also be a constructive direction along which to develop [[UFO research]].

Another possibility would be to do something along the lines of [[Wikipedia:Mind-Body Intervention|Mind-Body Intervention]]. This could have the advantage of providing a sensible start to Complementary and Alternative Medicine within [[Medicine]]. Mind-Body Intervention does not even make the main page of the website for the [http://nccam.nih.gov/ U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine]. Their main [http://nccam.nih.gov/health/backgrounds/mindbody.htm mind-body page] lists 19 references that would be a reasonable reading list for a Wikademia learning project.

I noticed today that the article "[http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1397803 A community experiment with fully open and published peer review]" says this, "The journal will publish 'essentially anything', even papers that receive three unanimously negative reviews, the only conditions being that three Editorial Board members agree to review (or solicit a review for) the manuscript and that the work qualifies as scientific (not pseudoscientific as is the case for intelligent design or creationism) – and, of course, that the author wants his/her paper published alongside the reviews it receives."