[WikiEN-l] Response to Anthere's claims

Sun Jul 6 20:07:10 UTC 2003

Robert wrote:

>Anthere writes:
>
>>And that is no reason to disperse all the
>>non-scientific points in other articles to keep just
>>the scientific point. I think that here, that is the
>>scientism of User Royal We that makes him try to push
>>away all non-scientific points away. This is bad.
>>
>
>I do not like it when people make accusations of
>"scientism".  It is a perjorative word, used to demean and
>insult.  (Anthere's charge, by the way, is false.  I am not
>an adherent of "scientism". Frankly, I have never met
>*anyone* who is.)
>
That's an interesting point of view.  This puts "scientism" on the same 
pejorative footing as "pseudoscience".  I've never met anyone who is an 
adherent of "pseudoscience".  

As long as "pseudoscience" continues to be used "scientism" is fair 
game. :-)

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