[WikiEN-l] Parascience subst. pseudoscience

Mon Dec 19 23:26:14 UTC 2005

Mark Gallagher wrote:

> Someone, I think it was David Gerard, said recently that we won't get
> into trouble if we lean too far towards what Jack Lynch calls "SPOV":
> 'tis better to be thought of as scientifically accurate than to be
> considered a haven of confused POV-pushing liars.  If it was him, he's
> exactly right.

It wasn't me, but it's still exactly right ;-)

This proposal to purge the word "pseudoscience" smacks of Sympathetic
Point Of View. We don't do that here.

- d.