Fastfission wrote:
[[Category:Pseudoscience]] is one which gets objections
at fairly
regular intervals. The reasons for the objections are pretty
straightforward -- the users making such objections are almost always
either Creationists or Eugenicists or other people who believe in
bodies of thought labeled as "pseudoscience" -- and the response is
generally pretty straightforward as well: Wikipedia is not claiming
these so-labeled articles are actually "pseudoscience", but rather
that they are labeled *by the mainstream scientific community* as
"pseudoscience".
Well, I happen to be a scientist by training and profession, and not a
Creationist or Eugenicist, but I really dislike
[[Category:Pseudoscience]]. This *is* indeed making a claim from
Wikipedia that said articles describe pseudoscience, which is not
particularly neutral. If, as you describe, we want to describe
something as "labelled pseudoscience by the mainstream scientific
community", it should be given a category that reflects that more
neutrally, such as [[Category:Non-mainstream scientific theories]].
Sort of how we have [[Category:Alternative medicine]] rather than
[[Category:Quack medicine]].
-Mark