Ray Saintonge wrote:
Here we are not concerned with any particular subject by itself, but a wide range of subjects with varying degrees of support or hostility, including mutual hostility. "Alternative science" may appear sympathetic to the proponents, but not outrageously so.
I think it's too sympathetic to pass NPOV muster when it simply isn't.
Sorry, but I'm not at all sympathetic to intelligent design. There are other subjects in this category that I find more interesting, but I'm willing to allow it to be called "alternate science" in order to be able to have meningful discussions.
I'm not. It's an example of the pseudo- in "pseudoscience": wearing some of the clothes of "science" to pretend to respectability it doesn't warrant.
If we interpret "science" strictly that's true. Nevertheless, others use the word "science" to refer to any kind of disciplined approach to a subject, as in the science of Texas Hold'em.
Pseudoscience is stuff pretending to be [[science]], properly speaking - not stuff claiming to be other plausible meanings of the word "science."
- d.