[WikiEN-l] Parascience subst. pseudoscience

Wed Dec 21 10:55:05 UTC 2005

The debate started about Scientific POV, but it seems that in referring 
to the Sympathetic POV he was exercising the Sarcastic POV.

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Steve Bennett wrote:

>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?
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>>Mark Gallagher wrote:
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>>>Someone, I think it was David Gerard, said recently that we won't get 
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>>>into trouble if we lean too far towards what Jack Lynch calls "SPOV": 
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>>>'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.
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>>It wasn't me, but it's still exactly right ;-)
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>>This proposal to purge the word "pseudoscience" smacks of 
>>Sympathetic Point Of View. We don't do that here.
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