[WikiEN-l] Parascience subst. pseudoscience
Steve Bennett
stevage at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 00:17:26 UTC 2005
I notice SPOV seems to be being used to mean "scientific point of view"
and "sympathetic point of view". Should these possibly be disambiguated
to SciPOV and SymPOV?
Steve
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> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard
> Sent: Tuesday, 20th December 2005 12:26 AM
> To: m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au; English Wikipedia
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Parascience subst. pseudoscience
>
>
> 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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