On 6/27/05, Delirium <delirium(a)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.