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== Pseudoscience == | |||
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Could you explain your edits, please? You've been removing categories from articles in what appears to be an inappropriate manner. Those articles (and categories) are categorized that way because there are several reliable references indicating that they are pseudoscience. ... ] <sup>(]/]/])</sup> 05:40, 3 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:Yes, i can explain my edits. I find that the Pseudoscience faction in Misplaced Pages is egregious in its abuse of the category to oppose paradigms with which it does not agree. I have no confidence that the serious damage that this is doing to the categories of its infringement will ever abate due to the aggregate momentum of the users assembled to efface what the pseudoskeptics abhor. | |||
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:The "reliable references" to which you refer are merely biased faction supporters in a cultural war that seems to have engulfed Misplaced Pages to such an extent that its techniques and guidelines and customs now consistently enable the bludgeoning of topics which pseudoskeptics dislike. | |||
:I have indicated at least initially some of the problem areas of the Pseuodoscience category (subcats, pages) by my edits, and i will list them here for the interested, possibly reflecting this to a Talk page other than my own if i feel like it: | |||
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:<B>Good</B> examples, otherwise, within these SUBCATS are "Creation Science", and "Intelligent Design", possibly but probably not including "Scientology", which is a religion that does sometimes try to give the impression of being scientific. | |||
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==Re: Aquino== | |||
:In general the types of things being misplaced into the category of Pseudoscience are phenomena, principles, processes, techniques, and theories. By themselves these aren't pseudosciences even though some in the scientific community may seek to call them this. Typically they are divinatory or therapeutic techniques that may be based on questionable or disputed theoretical foundations, and this should never be considered pseudoscience by itself. | |||
That was deleted a couple years ago per an AfD discussion, if there are newfound references since then creation would be fine, otherwise not. ] <sub>]</sub> 17:33, 5 August 2010 (UTC) | |||
:very glad to hear that, Wizardman. since i have no link to the discussion prior then i cannot ascertain what would be "newfound" references. I have a great number of them, including Gordon Melton, Arthur Lyons, James R. Lewis and others who count Michael Aquino and his Temple of Set as worthy of coverage as a micro-Luther to the CoS Roman Catholics. how would you like me to offer up these references to you? I would think these kinds of things would be all over the internet as well, but i know that wiki has a higher standard of authentication.] (]) 00:48, 15 August 2010 (UTC) | |||
:Feel free to quote or refer to this portion of my talk page, as it is likely going to be one of my few involvements in Misplaced Pages. The pseudoskeptical factions are way too strong for me (or many of my friends or family) to want to stay long, and the means by which things are changed here is so tedious that the best most of us will be able to do is put up a meek protest, explain it, and move on. | |||
::I'd ask the reliable sources noticeboard at ] to see if those are good. ] <sub>]</sub> 15:58, 30 January 2011 (UTC) | |||
:::Please do.] (]) 04:36, 23 February 2013 (UTC) | |||
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:The problem is that they don't <b>obviously</b> concern it. I protested and corrected the problem that you and others have allowed to continue due to your bias against the topics of your infringement. Your knowledge is floating on a cloud of consensus. | |||
:The arbitration to which you refer is merely a gang's victory against those who are attempting to repulse the pseudoskeptical assault on topics which aren't properly pseudosciences at all, but are targets of modern materialist science proponents who seek to use the term in this way. | |||
:Because some arbitration was agreed this does not mean that it is authoritative or that i must agree with it. I dispute it and would characterize it as a form of gang-warfare against an array of topics which you and others like you are effectively damaging Misplaced Pages's knowledge base concerning, by repeatedly infringing on these areas of knowledge and inserting pseudoskeptical viewpoints into them rather than to let them have their own zones to explain their methodologies and associated ideas in peace. | |||
:I gather that were i to continue to make these edits over and over again you would be within your rights and powers to issue to me some kind of warning. This is the means by which the culture war is carried out -- through the mechanism of the Wiki POLICE (Patrollers). Your Talk page itself indicates that your interest is Pseudoscience, and you have a vested interest in maintaining the intellectual boundaries which are in fact whittling away at the topics that the category of Pseudoscience is allowed to encompass, quite idiotically and biasedly.] (]) 06:40, 3 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
== Pseudoscience category as a weapon in the hegemonic culture wars == | |||
In Misplaced Pages, Pseudoscience is defined like this: | |||
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Pseudoscience is defined as a body of knowledge, methodology, belief, or practice that is claimed to be scientific or made to appear scientific, but does not adhere to the scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, or otherwise lacks scientific status. | |||
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This sentence contains an opening clause -- the "claimed to be or made to appear" clause -- and three dependent sub-clauses, the "does not adhere" sub-clause, the "lacks supporting evidence" sub-clause, and the "lacks scientific status" sub-clause. | |||
The sub-clauses only function as agents upon the first clause ("claimed to be or made to appear scientific"). If this were not so, then anything in the world which "lacks scientific status" -- a cheeseburger, a dog, a piece of hand-woven cloth from Equador -- could be classified as a "Pseudoscience." Obviously this is not the case, because these items (and a million others), are never thought of as Pseudosciences because they were never "claimed to be or made to appear scientific." | |||
The problem is that the pseudoskeptic group at Misplaced Pages treats these three sub-clauses as indepencent clauses. They do this despite that fact that adherents and practitioners of the subjects labelled "pseudoscience" are not always claiming a scientific basis for their beliefs or, if they are, they may be using the word "science" in its broadest sense, meaning "knowledge," and not in the narrow sense of "an approved academic curriculum of study of the material world that utilizes the 'scientific method' of investigation into physical phenomena". | |||
Let us take Spiritualism, for an example. Spiritualism is a religion. There have been claims made for it of a scientific nature in the narrow sense of the word, mostly in the past, and mostly by a very small minority of adherents. However, this entire religion, consisting of many denominations (see ]) is unfairly labelled a Pseudoscience at Misplaced Pages. This is grossly unfair and prejudicial to the religion of Spiritualism. | |||
Then let us take New Age. This is an interfaith religio-cultural movement. Again, a small minority of adherents have made scientific claims, narrowly defined, for aspects of the movement, but the general woman-in-the-street adherent does not make scientific claims, merely thinking of herself as a "New Ager" or "New Age pracititoner." Labelling her beliefs a "Pseudoscience" is inaccurate, prejudicial, and discourteous. | |||
] is listed as "Pseudoscience" at Misplaced Pages, which makes some sense, as this religion does curently present itself as "science" based. But why is the religion of ] NOT labeled a "Pseudoscience" at Misplaced Pages, despite the fact that its motto is "The aim of religion, the method of science"? This is inconsistent, to say the least, and also a-historical, given the intertwined origins of the two religions. | |||
Then we have ], in all its many branches. While some forms of divination are presented by some (but not all) adherents and practitioners as "scientific," others are virtually never given that appellation. In my 40-plus years of reading tea leaves, for instance, i have never heard ] "claimed to be or made to appear scientific," yet it is still classified at Misplaced Pages as a "Pseudscience." WHY? | |||
Why are the pseudoskeptics holding these topics hostage inside a category that exists only in the NEGATIVE, only to disrespect the items thus contained? Why is Misplaced Pages openly allowing a small coterie of editors to discredit and tarnish sincere religious and spiritual adherents? | |||
It is my opinion that a pseudoskeptical faction of active and aggressive editors is waging a hegemonic culture war against small religions, folkloric customs, divination, mysticism, ccultism, and spirituality, that they are doing so by taking over and controlling the categories in which these diverse socio-cultural topics appear at Misplaced Pages, and that this is being done with the full knowledge and encouragement of Misplaced Pages administrators and bureaucrats. | |||
If this were not so, the pseudoskeptics would allow members of these religions to absent their religions from the "Pseudoscience" category -- but they do not. They would allow practitioners and adherents of folkloric forms of divination to ask for independence from the "Pseudoscience" category -- but they do not. | |||
WHY NOT? | |||
As a ], i cannot help but note that this enforced classification of religions as "pseudo-somethings" is abhorrent and grossly offensive. Let me tell you how horrific it appears to me. ] is not "Pseudochristianity" and no one at Misplaced Pages would allow it to be listed as such -- but at the same time, Spiritualism and its attendent organizations like and and -- which are not "Pseudoscience" and should never have been classified as "Pseudoscience" in the first place -- are thus listed, held captive to the mocking whim of pseudoskeptics who think that their connection to rich, powerful, White scientific atheists gives them the right to disrespect and malign any religion they choose. | |||
That's what it looks like to me, and i invite anyone who doesn't have a closed mind to click on the links to those small, mostly African American, Spiritualist groups and tell me why -- WHY? -- they are placed in the "Pseudoscience" category. Can you justify it? Really? If you can, tell me why. Or better yet, tell THEM. | |||
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Re: Aquino
That was deleted a couple years ago per an AfD discussion, if there are newfound references since then creation would be fine, otherwise not. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 17:33, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
- very glad to hear that, Wizardman. since i have no link to the discussion prior then i cannot ascertain what would be "newfound" references. I have a great number of them, including Gordon Melton, Arthur Lyons, James R. Lewis and others who count Michael Aquino and his Temple of Set as worthy of coverage as a micro-Luther to the CoS Roman Catholics. how would you like me to offer up these references to you? I would think these kinds of things would be all over the internet as well, but i know that wiki has a higher standard of authentication.-- self-ref (nagasiva yronwode) (talk) 00:48, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
- I'd ask the reliable sources noticeboard at WP:RS/N to see if those are good. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 15:58, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
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