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by jpttsn 1256 days ago
At that point why not call it “witchcraft;” a sciencey word for something is not an explanation.
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Clearly you've never recalibrated the thermal interferometery scanner so you can reverse the polarity of the neutron flow in the isoneutronic pulse wave carrier.
A good retroencabulator helps a lot here.
You need a plumbus for that.

Everyone need one.

That's technobabble - a pejorative term for a technical word salad that usually is an explanation, just not a very good one.
We do not call it witchcraft, because that is the end of the discussion and the answer. We call it unknown because it is knowable and is the beginning of the experiments.
>We do not call it witchcraft, because that is the end of the discussion and the answer.

Also, we'd have to eliminate the practitioners for clearly being witches. We've had that period and history, but it seems some modern day people are content to bring that very time period back.