rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (04/26/84)
I'd like to know just why the business of "balanced" treatment is such a
sacred cow. I know of no field of scientific endeavor in which a
presentation of contending theories is presented in "balanced" fashion.
There is almost always a "prevalent" theory, which receives most of the
attention. Theories are generally treated with emphasis proportional to
the weight of evidence in their favor. Theories which have little or no
support may not be presented at all. A crude, but effective, measure of
the significance of a theory is the relative number of scientists in the
field who believe it to be the most acceptable one. By such a measure,
creationism has very little credence attached to it and should be given
correspondingly little treatment in a FAIR (as opposed to balanced)
treatment.
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