[WikiEN-l] SPOV threatens NPOV
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Thu Dec 15 10:31:03 UTC 2005
Chris Jenkinson wrote:
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>> Chris Jenkinson wrote:
>>
>>> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>>>
>>>> Your statement that "the other ideas are normally all wrong" is a
>>>> POV. If your criticism depends on a POV then it too is a POV. A
>>>> scientific experiment that shows something to be wrong is not the
>>>> same as one that fails to show it right. To say that something
>>>> which is not science is necessarily pseudoscience is a textbook
>>>> application of the fallacy of [[False dilemma]].
>>>
>>> I never made such an assertion (that all non-science is
>>> pseudoscience). I said that pseudoscience is often wrong. So could
>>> you give me an example of a pseudoscience which is actually 'right'?
>>
>> Your request is illogical. It asks for something right when it is
>> wrong by definition. If I see something as "right" I would not call
>> it pseudoscience.
>
> Exactly - so how is it POV to demonstrate in an article why a
> pseudoscience is wrong?
Because you had to characterize it as pseudoscience in the first place.
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