joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Quoting David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
"Teach the controversy" is a phrase that encapsulates NPOV perfectly IMO. Except it's been popularised by advocates of Intelligent Design and is strongly associated with them.
Is there a way to put it into [[WP:NPOV]] that wouldn't seem to be pushing ID?
Well, when ID people use the phrase "Teach the controversy" the primary issue seems to be that they want something like NPOV without the undue weight clause. They don't want a NPOV, they want "balance" (in the classic way that so many reporters seem to think they are being neutral if they present all sides equally quoting exactly as many words from people in all groups regardless of the issue or if there is a consensus or anything of the sort).
It's always hard to achieve balance when the kid at one end of the teeter-totter is obese.
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