Well, I think you've shot your foot saying we can't talk about scientific method. The contemporary view of science has the method as one of the over archind concepts.

Science in the broader sense, is a systematic knowledge base that can make predictions based on a set of criteria.

Pseudoscience is not science. There is no comparison. It's something presented using science as a front in order to validate that idea or product. Typically using microscopic samples of people or taking figures out of context, lying etc etc