Suppose you have three hundred scientists, and three competing interpretations. Hundred scientists believe S1, hundred scientists believe S2, and hundred scientists believe S3. LW believes S1.
I guess my point is that I wouldn’t consider it necessary to add a disclaimer to the three hundred scientists. Therefore I don’t consider it necessary to add such disclaimer to LW.
But of course, adding disclaimers to everyone is also a consistent opinion.
To me it seems like a funny misson creep, in context of RationalWiki: start with calling out pseudoscience, end with calling out people who agree with some-but-not-all mainstream scientists.
If you have a hundred scientists scattered through the world who believe S1 , and have nothing else in common, that’s one thing. If they all live together, know each other and go to the same church, then there is reason to believe their acceptance of S1 is groupthink, and not pure scientific objectivity.
Suppose you have three hundred scientists, and three competing interpretations. Hundred scientists believe S1, hundred scientists believe S2, and hundred scientists believe S3. LW believes S1.
I guess my point is that I wouldn’t consider it necessary to add a disclaimer to the three hundred scientists. Therefore I don’t consider it necessary to add such disclaimer to LW.
But of course, adding disclaimers to everyone is also a consistent opinion.
To me it seems like a funny misson creep, in context of RationalWiki: start with calling out pseudoscience, end with calling out people who agree with some-but-not-all mainstream scientists.
If you have a hundred scientists scattered through the world who believe S1 , and have nothing else in common, that’s one thing. If they all live together, know each other and go to the same church, then there is reason to believe their acceptance of S1 is groupthink, and not pure scientific objectivity.