Haukur Þorgeirsson (haukurth@hi.is) [050629 23:27]:
The current article on [[Alternative medicine]] has suffered a bad case of Gohde and could do with a lot of cleaning up, but the Category links to Pseudoscience and Protoscience get the point across IMO (having as it does both).
Currently the Protoscience category includes such topics as String theory and Quantum gravity as well as Phrenology (old debunked non-sense) and Biorythm (recent debunked non-sense). To me it does not seem that these things have enough in common to be usefully included in the same category.
Phrenology has almost certainly fallen well into pseudoscience (if it still has followers). Biorhythms, I don't know enough about. String theory probably isn't. Stuff like [[Ufology]] probably belongs there - some cranks, some people trying to gather information in a respectable manner.
I started the category for the sake of [[Alternative medicine]] and added stuff from [[List of protosciences]] to it as I thought were sensible. There was a lot of editorial decision-making involved. We need a handy NPOV definition of "protoscience" that divides these things up elegantly. This sort of thing is endlessly fascinating :-)
- d.