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![]() | Arbitration Ruling on the Treatment of Pseudoscience In December of 2006 the Arbitration Committee ruled on guidelines for the presentation of topics as pseudoscience in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience. The final decision was as follows:
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To put this on the same level as astrology, phrenology and 2012 Maya prophecies seems a little bit mean.
From the article: "Academic response to the theory has been mixed—some applauding Strauss and Howe for their "bold and imaginative thesis" and others criticizing the theory as being overly-deterministic, unfalsifiable, and unsupported by rigorous evidence"
You won't get any "mixed response" from academics to astrology, etc. Captain Genet (talk) 07:26, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 10 August 2021
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Chiropractic is not "pseudoscience," any more or less than medicine. I state this as a career neuroscientist in the field. Indeed, I am one of the most qualified people alive to make this statement. The word "pseudoscience" needs to be removed. Geoffreybove (talk) 09:59, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Wikipedia does not accept original research, and Chiropractic seems to establish it as pseudoscience with reliable sources. This should probably be handled on Talk:Chiropractic first. (pinging Geoffreybove) — Lauritz Thomsen (talk) 10:28, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 30 December 2024
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Unless this violates WP:NPOV and/or WP:RATIONAL, add 999 phone charging myth to the [Topics characterized as pseudoscience > Other] section. 67.209.129.153 (talk) 04:27, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- Not done. This is a myth or urban legend, not pseudoscience. Risker (talk) 04:45, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
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Would some add Modern flat Earth beliefs in parenthesis after Flat Earth theory? 216.49.130.24 (talk) 14:26, 14 April 2025 (UTC)