User:Ihcoyc/The problem of anti-supernatural bias
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I believe that anti-supernatural bias has become a problem on Wikipedia. Like most biases in Wikipedia, it fits the pattern: the community of active editors on Wikipedia differs from the world at large in a significant way, and that demographic difference makes a difference in Wikipedia content.
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This page in a nutshell: 'Scientific skepticism' considered against the backdrop of human history as a whole is itself a fringe position. It is not Wikipedia's official theory of reality; we don't have one. Supernatural and occult beliefs have no special verification requirements, and to the extent that any belief system generates a substantial literature it is not a "fringe" topic, either, no matter what scientific skeptics say. They may be referenced to their own literatures, which are not "in universe" simply because they assume that the belief system is worth studying; nor are these subjects' literatures entirely primary or unreliable sources. |