Ray Saintonge wrote:
The difference is that "parascience" assumes good faith; "pseudoscioence" does not.
Assume good faith is a policy about interaction between contributors, not content. A neutral point of view assumes neither good faith nor bad.
--Michael Snow
Michael Snow wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
The difference is that "parascience" assumes good faith; "pseudoscioence" does not.
Assume good faith is a policy about interaction between contributors, not content. A neutral point of view assumes neither good faith nor bad.
Yep. Moreover, this talk about trying to purge the word "pseudoscience" appears to be attempting to push Sympathetic Point Of View.
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Michael Snow wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
The difference is that "parascience" assumes good faith; "pseudoscioence" does not.
Assume good faith is a policy about interaction between contributors, not content. A neutral point of view assumes neither good faith nor bad.
Choice of words is about interaction between contributors. If a word contains implicit bad faith its use transfers that bad faith to its user.
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