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A specific form of moralism where the condemnation of pseudoscience becomes not just intellectual critique but moral crusade—treating belief in pseudoscientific claims as not just mistaken but wicked, not just wrong but vicious. Anti-pseudoscience moralism transforms the legitimate project of distinguishing science from non-science into a campaign against the people who get it wrong, treating them as enemies to be defeated rather than confused humans to be educated. It's the skeptic who thinks ridicule is the appropriate response to alternative medicine; the debunker who treats believers as morally deficient; the science advocate who conflates being wrong with being bad. This moralism loses sight of the purpose of distinguishing science from pseudoscience—which is to get things right, not to punish those who don't.
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