[WikiEN-l] Parascience subst. pseudoscience

Fri Dec 16 22:35:11 UTC 2005

stevertigo wrote:
>On 12/16/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>

>>wrote:
>>Parascience is often used...

> Thats it: 
>   'Parascience' shall be the NPOV term that replaces
> the SPOV 
>   term 'pseudoscience' in most cases.

If it describes what pseudoscience describes, and it ever reaches common
English usage rather than being a Wikipedia neologism, I predict those
so labeled will object to it in just the same way.

(Trivia: the word "Scientology" was first used in 1910 or so to mean
what we now call "pseudoscience".)

- d.