[WikiEN-l] Parascience subst. pseudoscience

Tue Dec 20 00:17:26 UTC 2005

I notice SPOV seems to be being used to mean "scientific point of view"
and "sympathetic point of view". Should these possibly be disambiguated
to SciPOV and SymPOV?

Steve

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> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard
> Sent: Tuesday, 20th December 2005 12:26 AM
> To: m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au; English Wikipedia
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Parascience subst. pseudoscience
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
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