On 6/27/05, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Well, I happen to be a scientist by training and profession, and not a Creationist or Eugenicist, but I really dislike [[Category:Pseudoscience]]. This *is* indeed making a claim from Wikipedia that said articles describe pseudoscience, which is not particularly neutral. If, as you describe, we want to describe something as "labelled pseudoscience by the mainstream scientific community", it should be given a category that reflects that more neutrally, such as [[Category:Non-mainstream scientific theories]]. Sort of how we have [[Category:Alternative medicine]] rather than [[Category:Quack medicine]].
But a major aspect of Category:Pseudoscience is that they generally aren't scientific theories at all, but rather that they use scientific language without the accompanying rigor. They might be right, but they generally are not science.
I agree that a more neutral sounding name would be nice, but I'm not sure what would work... I believe the category is useful, so we shouldn't just do away with it.