User:Reaverdrop/The Department of Not Believing I Actually Even Have To Say This

From Talk:Flat_Earth_Society#Saying_the_Earth_is_not_actually_flat_is_not_heavy-handed_editorializing, after a revert from a guy named User:For great justice. who said, "(Remove heavy handed and uncessary editorialising - this page does not support the theory.)" As in, to preserve NPOV, we should not support the "theory" of a spherical Earth.

Saying the Earth is not actually flat is not heavy-handed editorializing

(From The Department of Not Believing I Actually Even Have To Say This): I've been accused of heavy-handed editorializing for adding that the belief that the Earth is flat is... "in contradiction with the universal consensus among scientists that the Earth is a slightly oblate spheroid." This is only the most appropriate way of stating the facts with as neutral a point of view as possible, rather than suggesting relative validity of the idea that the Earth is flat. Could there possibly be a stronger case for letting the scientific fringe hijack reality than to be overly deferential to the idea that the Earth is flat?! - Reaverdrop 21:38, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Do you really feel that saying, in the first para 'scientists universally reject it' is giving undue defference? For great justice. 21:51, 16 May 2006 (UTC)