[WikiEN-l] Pseudoscience category - GSPOV
Delirium
delirium at hackish.org
Tue Jun 28 21:10:06 UTC 2005
David Gerard wrote:
>>I still don't really like that idea, because it's strongly taking one
>>side in a dispute. Should we, for example, have a
>>[[Category:Pseudoscientists]] that we apply to [[Linus Pauling]] for his
>>wacked-out ideas on nutrition? (Of course, he could also get
>>[[Category:Scientists]] for his more respected work.)
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>Has this or anything as stupid aS this actually happened? i.e., not
>hypothetically.
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I'm not sure, but I fail to see any meaningful distinction between a
possibly hypothetical [[Category:Pseudoscientists]] and the
[[Category:Pseudoscience]]. If it's acceptable to label theories
considered pseudoscience by the mainstream scientific community with
[[Category:Pseudoscience]], why isn't it acceptable to label the people
who came up with those theories [[Category:Pseudoscientists]]?
-Mark
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