Template talk:RationalSkepticismCollaboration

Latest comment: 12 years ago by CronoDAS in topic Future Collaborations

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  • paranormal simply links to Anomalous phenomenon. I think there should be a seperate article about paranormal. Compare and contrast to pseudoscience, etc. Four months ago I started on such an article (off-line) but didn't get it in good enough shape to make a new article. Bubba73 (talk), 01:15, 27 February 2006 (UTC)Reply
    • Oppose. Instead of creating a new article, which could turn into a POV fork in time, why not just expand the existing article with more information about the paranormal? The only difference between "anomalous phenomenon" and "paranormal" is a terminological and connotational one, and thus determining what topics to cover in one or the other would violate WP:NOR and[ [WP:NPOV]]. For example, if we covered Bigfoot in "paranormal" and Ghosts in "anomalous phenomena", it would clearly demonstrate a bias, or at least an arbitrary and useless distinction. -Silence 20:47, 16 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
  • Seance Before I got to it, the article was a blatent endorsement. Could use major changes.
SupportWikidudeman (talk) 11:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)Reply
  • Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy has had numerous statements suggest that unproven treatments are effective despite evidence to the contrary. They both contain large critiques of the scientific process used to evaluate their field and are very selective in the evidence that is included. Specifically, evidence that makes either of these related disciplines look bad is excluded.JamesStewart7 10:56, 25 October 2007 (UTC)Reply
  • Transcendental Meditation Seems to be dominated by a group of editors with a bias towards promoting this form of mediation as a cure all to all disease conditions. There is an attempt to support this with research in many obscure journals while the research itself is funded and conducted by members of the organization in question (Citations of alternative research with different less conclusive findings appears to be actively blocked or contested). The talk-pages (including those archived) suggest many long-time members may have affiliations with said organization. Needs close NPOV attention Tuckerj1976 (talk) 03:14, 8 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
  • Electrical Muscle Stimulation is a quackery-related article that seems in need of attention; I was under the impression that belts that are advertised as increasing muscle tone by giving you electric shocks were found to be generally useless (and were therefore a kind of quackery); this page doesn't seem to discuss this. CronoDAS (talk) 07:28, 1 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

Previous Collaborations

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Proposed Future collaboration: Scientific skepticism

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Its a bad, bad muddled article. Needs a lot of re-writing. --Havermayer 22:29, 1 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Opportunity for Inter-project Collaboration

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WikiProject Medicine and WikiProject Pharmacology have proposed a collaboration to improve Placebo, an article that is supported by this WikiProject. If this topic interests you, and you would like to help (in large ways or small) improve this article through collaborative editing, please go to the WPMED project's collaboration page and sign your name (~~~~) to show your support. The next collaboration will be chosen in about five days, and the article with the most votes from potential collaborators is chosen. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:33, 5 May 2008 (UTC)Reply