On 6/30/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Maybe the only way out of this is to call the categories something unwieldy-but-NPOV like [[Category:Theories or beliefs widely considered pseudoscience]]...
Well, "pseudoscience" is not something "widely" considered -- it is something which is reflective of the consideration of a relatively small community (the scientific community, very small in the world at large). And if we have, [[Category:Theories or beliefs considered by mainstream scientists to be pseudoscience]] why would we not also have [[Category:Theories or beliefs considered by fundamentalist Christians to be lies of Satan]]?
The American Association for the Advancement of Science claims 10 million members. According to the Wikipedia article [[Evolution poll]], far far FAR greater numbers in the USA believe in some variety of Creationism. 45% of citizens in 2001 believe in straight Biblical creationism -- some some 126 million people or so! (yuck!) So appeals to consensus don't help us much, unless we start plugging in the *specific* communities we are talking about. I can't see any good reason not to label Evolution as a [[Satanic lie]] if we'll label Creationism [[Pseudoscience]] -- they've certainly got us beat in the numbers game! (Sigh...)
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