This "battle" is overblown. Apart from there
being many experts who
contribute quite effectively to Wikipedia, it turns out the actual
answer is that disciplines are realising they have to come to the
mountain, e.g.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/aps-wikipedia-initiat…
Nice.
@stirling
I can understand your distaste towards those beliefs.
what i propose will allow those beliefs to circulate side by side with
scientific ones.
But isnt human not scientific by Nature?
Every day, we experience things, we verify that our experiences are not
contradicting our beliefs or we update them so as to fit our experiences.
We are thus evolving through time. People with no scientific background
will make false theories but if new theories
make more sense there is no reason for those old theories to endure.
Why is then a theory that has no evidence at all to prove it, like
creationism is able to endure?
Since people are scientific by nature, the only conclusion that we can get
is that the flow of experiences and new theories is tampered.
Experiences/experiments are blocked from reaching certain people and other
theories are promoted.
Since Science is by definition the creation of rigorous theories that
better explain the world, if the flow of new theories are democratically
distributed, then
pseudoscience will simply vanish.
2012/10/28 Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net>
On 28 October 2012 16:48, Apostolis
Xekoukoulotakis <xekoukou(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> I also dont think that there is an easier alternative that solves the
long
lasting
battle between experts and the rest.
> on 10/28/12 1:15 PM, David Gerard at dgerard(a)gmail.com wrote:
This "battle" is overblown. Apart from
there being many experts who
contribute quite effectively to Wikipedia, it turns out the actual
answer is that disciplines are realising they have to come to the
mountain, e.g.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/aps-wikipedia-initiat…
This is an excellent project. I'm onboard with it.
Marc Riddell, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology/Psychotherapy
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