Does "Langmuir dubbed this deviation from the principles of the scientific method “ pathological scie nce,” " mean: this deviation from the principles of the scientific method is named by Langmuir as “ pathological scie nce ” (that is, the “science of things that aren’t so.”) ? Context: Chemistry Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir related in a landmark 1953 speech his visit to the laboratory of J.B. Rhine at Duke University, where Rhine was claiming results of ESP experiments that could not be predicted by chance, and which he ascribed to psychic phenomena. Langmuir discovered that Rhine was only selectively counting the data in his experiments, omitting the results from those he believed were guessing in order to humiliate him. ...
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