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This article was nominated for deletion on 23 March 2004. The result of the discussion was keep.

Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 30 October 2018 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Discovery Institute. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Article repeats content

This article seems to be largely repeating material that is on other pages. Wedge Strategy, Teach the Controversy and the Center for Science and Culture have their own pages: why do they need half a dozen paragraphs on this one as well?

Proposed summary sentence replacing the existing second sentence of the article and the sections on Teach the Controversy, the Wedge Strategy, and the Center for Science and Culture: "The Center for ... (link), part of the Discovery Institute, is a hub of the Intelligent Design/creationism movement, connected to most significant figures of the movement and was behind the Wedge strategy (link) and "Teach the Controversy" (link) campaign, as well as the Santorum Amendment (link?). Future Contributor (talk) 03:48, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia articles are independent from each other. This one explains what the DI does. Another one explains what the Wedge Strategy is. Of course they will overlap. If we delete stuff from this article because it is in another article, we essentially force the readers to read every article connected with this one to get the whole picture. --Hob Gadling (talk) 05:54, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. That's what the links are for. Future Contributor (talk) 09:09, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No. The links are for those who want to find out more about those related subjects, not anything at all about those related subjects. Maybe you should gather a bit more experience about Wikipedia editing before declaring how it works? --Hob Gadling (talk)

Extensive edit waring

For the last few years there have been relatively large amounts of edit wars, with both pro science (2a00:1f:ec81:6101:2121:b99f:60f7:56dd) and pro DI (billb4420) people making obviously biased edits, either to remove refferences to their claims being pseudoscientific, or to label their tactics as propaganda While i fully agree its propaganda i feel like an edit protection should be added to avoid further edit warring extended by IP users. Mormissen (talk) 09:50, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]