Talk:Science/Dissident

Semantic error parsing title

Using the standard of parsing "A/B" as "B of A", the title reads as "Science dissident of science", so is doppelt gemoppelt. I therefore renamed it "Science/Dissident". This sounds a bit like someone is dissenting from science as it is currently understood, in the direction of Rupert Sheldrake, so is not perfect, but it's an improvement. Another concern is that so many of those listed are COVID-19/Dissidents. Standard practice would be to make COVID-19/Dissident an example of Science/Dissident, but then perhaps the SMW framework could be used more creatively. It really depends on the range of people who we wish to populate the page(s) created. -- Robin (talk) 18:05, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for renaming the page (I saw this after creating it). My idea was that not all COVID-19/Dissidents are scientists. I wanted for example to exclude bloggers, many of whom are listed on the COVID-19/Dissidents page. Urban (talk) 02:07, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

I think, I can see your point now. When editing Reiner Fuellmich it became clear that he IS a scientist from his professional training, but less concerned with the philosophy of science (meta perspective) than COVID-19/Dissident. I settled to list him (and other similar cases) in both categories. This coincided with my conviction that (underrepresented) focus on solutions must be balanced with focus on problems. Although it makes sense to me to reserve Science/Dissident for the "meta guys" like Sheldrake, Lewinton, Jeff Schmitt, Rancourt, etc. Did I understand you correctly? Urban (talk) 03:30, 16 February 2022 (UTC)