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The grand, overarching theoretical frameworks within parasciences that are unfalsifiable by design. Like Thomas Kuhn's scientific paradigms, they dictate what questions are valid and what counts as evidence, but they are immune to revolution by empirical anomaly because anomalies are defined away as part of a conspiracy or as "not yet understood" within the paradigm.
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