Talk:Don S. McMahon

Pseudoscience

Adventist historians adhered to the secular canons of historiography, except with regard to Ellen White. She occupied a supernaturalist preserve off-limits to naturalist history. In teaching or writing history on any other topic, Adventist historians generally would find it naive to evoke “the hand of God” as a cause. ... But the historical study of Ellen White was a different matter. Because Adventist historians ruled out exploring the visionary’s life with the same methods that governed their study of an Abigail Adams or an Elizabeth Cady Stanton, they chose qua historians to ignore her altogether.

— Jonathan M. Butler, Introduction: The Historian as Heretic

This shows the gist of the pseudoscience label: supernaturalistic explanations cannot be historical explanations. Tgeorgescu (talk) 21:27, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Let's see it this way: eat lots of fruits and vegetables, drink enough liquids is standard health advice. Drop the meat from your diet is dubious advice, if unqualified (i.e. lacking professional dietary counseling). Drop meat, dairy and eggs from your diet is bad advice, if unqualified (same caveat as before). Water treatments are either quackery or have become obsolete. Tgeorgescu (talk) 23:22, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

And God-given insights against the medical effects of masturbation are simply fake prophecies. Tgeorgescu (talk) 23:24, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

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Adventists about Adventists

Toilet Duck#Advertising slogan: "We, the people at Toilet Duck, recommend Toilet Duck". Meaning: while Adventist authors have been cited, I don't think they qualify as independent sources.

Speaking of pseudoscholarship: one pseudoscholar applauds another pseudoscholar. That is nothing to wonder. tgeorgescu (talk) 21:05, 28 February 2022 (UTC)