[WikiEN-l] Parascience subst. pseudoscience
David Gerard
fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Mon Dec 19 23:26:14 UTC 2005
Mark Gallagher wrote:
> Someone, I think it was David Gerard, said recently that we won't get
> into trouble if we lean too far towards what Jack Lynch calls "SPOV":
> 'tis better to be thought of as scientifically accurate than to be
> considered a haven of confused POV-pushing liars. If it was him, he's
> exactly right.
It wasn't me, but it's still exactly right ;-)
This proposal to purge the word "pseudoscience" smacks of Sympathetic
Point Of View. We don't do that here.
- d.
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