Tag: pseudoscience
#4 of Our Top Stories of 2017: Wiki Co-Founder Blasts “Appallingly Biased” Wikipedia Entry on ID
A philosophy PhD, Larry Sanger worked with Jimmy Wales to found Wikipedia in 2001.
“Fake News” Isn’t a Phony Concept, as Media and Wikipedia Coverage of Intelligent Design Shows
The interesting psychological issue here turns upon the question of whether these people are deliberately lying or not.
Wikipedia Co-Founder Blasts “Appallingly Biased” Wikipedia Entry on Intelligent Design
“It simply cannot be defended as neutral,” says Larry Sanger, who launched the online encyclopedia with Jimmy Wales in 2001.
Meet the Cast of Characters Who Edit Wikipedia’s Page on Intelligent Design
At 6:41 pm someone tries to make a legitimate correction to the Wiki page on ID. By 6:43, an editor has undone the revision.
Pseudoscience, Eugenics, and Demarcation
Look here: A physicist who seems to understand the demarcation problem proceeds to demarcate “pseudoscience” on his own authority. Alex Wellerstein reviewed a book on pseudoscience that explicitly warns about the challenge of differentiating between science and pseudoscience. Wellerstein, of the Center for the History of Physics, American Institute of Physics in Maryland, wrote in the Oct. 12 issue of Science this summary of what Michael D. Gordin said about the “demarcation problem” in his new book, The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe. Velikovsky’s cosmic catastrophism is, for Gordin, also a case study on the famously intractable demarcation problem, the difficulty of coming up with firm criteria for what separates science from nonscience, or Read More ›