This "battle" is overblown. Apart from there being many experts who contribute quite effectively to Wikipedia, it turns out the actual answer is that disciplines are realising they have to come to the mountain, e.g.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/aps-wikipedia-initiati...
Nice.
@stirling
I can understand your distaste towards those beliefs. what i propose will allow those beliefs to circulate side by side with scientific ones.
But isnt human not scientific by Nature? Every day, we experience things, we verify that our experiences are not contradicting our beliefs or we update them so as to fit our experiences. We are thus evolving through time. People with no scientific background will make false theories but if new theories make more sense there is no reason for those old theories to endure.
Why is then a theory that has no evidence at all to prove it, like creationism is able to endure?
Since people are scientific by nature, the only conclusion that we can get is that the flow of experiences and new theories is tampered. Experiences/experiments are blocked from reaching certain people and other theories are promoted.
Since Science is by definition the creation of rigorous theories that better explain the world, if the flow of new theories are democratically distributed, then pseudoscience will simply vanish.
2012/10/28 Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net
On 28 October 2012 16:48, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis xekoukou@gmail.com wrote:
I also dont think that there is an easier alternative that solves the
long
lasting battle between experts and the rest.
on 10/28/12 1:15 PM, David Gerard at dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
This "battle" is overblown. Apart from there being many experts who contribute quite effectively to Wikipedia, it turns out the actual answer is that disciplines are realising they have to come to the mountain, e.g.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/aps-wikipedia-initiati...
This is an excellent project. I'm onboard with it.
Marc Riddell, Ph.D. Clinical Psychology/Psychotherapy
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