Karl A. Krueger wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:35:11PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
stevertigo wrote:
Thats it: 'Parascience' shall be the NPOV term that replaces the SPOV term 'pseudoscience' in most cases.
If it describes what pseudoscience describes, and it ever reaches common English usage rather than being a Wikipedia neologism, I predict those so labeled will object to it in just the same way.
Yup. See also [[euphemism treadmill]]. Creating a politically-correct neologism won't change the situation: People who are misleading the public (by pretending to scientific research they aren't doing) don't like having the fact pointed out.
20,000 Google hits is not a characteristic of a neologism.
The difference is that "parascience" assumes good faith; "pseudoscioence" does not.
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