User talk:Nick cool

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I beg to differ from the reversion.

Glæd Gēol, merry Christmas and flavoursome frumenty.

Martin Arnold Nick_cool (talk) 05:31, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia isn't "neutral" between science and pseudoscience, but decidedly sides with science, see WP:PSCI. tgeorgescu (talk) 06:00, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy new year to you. I yet maintain that the reversion is less pertinent than my suggestion, but regret that I lack the energy to argue my case, so I'll have to let the reversion stand. Cheers, Martin Nick_cool (talk) 08:36, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do I always like how the WP:RULES play out for every article? Not always. But I'm still bound to obey the WP:RULES. tgeorgescu (talk) 12:55, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Drs,

If the Rules insist that Berlinki's article be written as it stands, then the Rules is an ass.

Cheers,

Martin Nick_cool (talk) 21:50, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you will find the rules of Conservapedia more suitable for your POV. tgeorgescu (talk) 22:54, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No.

I have not investigated WP:RULES, but I would be surprised and disappointed if they insisted on such a misleading, tendentious and insulting article as the one which presently stands under the name 'David Berlinski'. Nick_cool (talk) 01:31, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

At Wikipedia, pseudoscience always gets short shrift. See WP:PSCI.

We can't really treat him the way you want.

"So when the Christian Right tries to tell you that evolutionists instinctively circle the wagons whenever anyone dares question the Darwinian status quo, you should ask yourself why Wright and Kimura got through, but Behe not. The answer is, I think, straightforward: Wright and Kimura knew what they were talking about." H. Allen Orr. tgeorgescu (talk) 04:35, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]