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