I raise an objection: that's not what it's called in English (my overriding objection), and "pseudo-medicine" is an invented term hence original research.
Very well, you're probably right.
I think I've said my piece on this topic and I've got a better idea of the various opinions of other community members. It seems we have reached the typical Wikipedian conclusion of calling a truce on a status quo which is unacceptable to everyone :)
At any rate I will proceed with caution in any changes I make to these articles and categories.
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.
Regards, Haukur
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.
Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
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.
Using the example of phrenology, you will find that when the believers no longer feel the need to defend the topic gradually fades away.
Trolls and troll-feeders are bound in each other's destiny.
Ec