[WikiEN-l] Re: Parascience subst. pseudoscience

Wed Dec 21 18:27:55 UTC 2005

Michael Snow wrote:

> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>> The difference is that "parascience" assumes good faith;  
>> "pseudoscioence" does not.
>
> Assume good faith is a policy about interaction between contributors, 
> not content. A neutral point of view assumes neither good faith nor bad. 

Choice of words is about interaction between contributors.  If a word 
contains implicit bad faith its use transfers that bad faith to its user.

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