I do not have a PHD either although some have asserted that I have a demonstrated level of AHPHDedness.

Norm, can you help me identify a term to describe a claim, belief, or practice posing as science, but which does not constitute or adhere to an appropriate scientific methodology, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, or otherwise lacks scientific status.

The term should describe the use of vague, exaggerated or untestable claims, over-reliance on confirmation rather than refutation, lack of openness to testing by other experts, and a lack of progress in theory development. The term should also be inherently pejorative, because it wil be used to assert that something is being inaccurately or deceptively portrayed as science.

Above all, those labeled as practicing or advocating (the term) will normally dispute the characterization.

there has to be something in the dictionary to describe this phenomena....

Here is some easy listening that I rely on for such times as these.

music to help you thimk