La synergologie, une lecture pseudoscientifique du langage corporel
The objective of this paper is to assess whether synergology is part of science or whether it is merely a nonverbal behavior decoding pseudoscience. The text consists of five sections. In the first section, we describe important elements of the scientific approach. In the second and third sections, we briefly present synergology and we examine if it meets scientific criteria. The fourth section reports a demand letter addressed to Patrick Lagacé and La Presse for a series of texts which presented a very critical view of this approach. Finally, the use of irrelevant arguments from a scientific point of view, an unwarranted attempt to give credibility to synergology by a demand letter and an unjustified use of the ethical argument lead us to conclude that synergology is a nonverbal behavior decoding pseudoscience.
Pseudoscience Synergology Nonverbal behavior