[WikiEN-l] SPOV threatens NPOV

Fri Dec 16 00:58:51 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:

>Ray Saintonge wrote:
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>>Chris Jenkinson wrote:
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>>>Ray Saintonge wrote:
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>>>>Your request is illogical.  It asks for something right  when it is
>>>>wrong by definition.  If I see something as "right" I would not call
>>>>it pseudoscience.
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>>>Exactly - so how is it POV to demonstrate in an article why a
>>>pseudoscience is wrong? 
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>>Because you had to characterize it as pseudoscience in the first place.
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>This resembles a circular argument.
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>Is there any word or phrase in *common usage* (i.e., we can't coin a
>Wikipedia-only neologism) that covers what is meant by "pseudoscience"?
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"Alternate science" is such a term which does not carrry the same 
negative baggage as "pseudoscience".

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