[WikiEN-l] Neutral Point of View in three words

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

> "Teach the controversy" is a phrase that encapsulates NPOV perfectly
> IMO. Except it's been popularised by advocates of Intelligent Design
> and is strongly associated with them.
>
> Is there a way to put it into [[WP:NPOV]] that wouldn't seem to be 
> pushing ID?
>
> - d.

Well, when ID people use the phrase "Teach the controversy" the primary issue
seems to be that they want something like NPOV without the undue weight 
clause.
They don't want a NPOV, they want "balance" (in the classic way that so many
reporters seem to think they are being neutral if they present all sides
equally quoting exactly as many words from people in all groups regardless of
the issue or if there is a consensus or anything of the sort).