On Jan 16, 2007, at 2:39 PM, geni wrote:
I doubt it. To me it loks like one person went looking for a fight and managed to find one. I still think "wait and see" is the best aproach to Citizendium.
The decision in question is without a doubt a bad one that fundamentally de-emphasizes major academic disciplines in favor of an underinformed view that has no place in a project supposedly devoted to experts.
It points to a fundamental flaw in Citizendium, and one that wouldn't surprise anyone who saw Larry's name attached to it - it's an encyclopedia that favors experts that's run by someone with a view of the academy that is wildly out of step with current senses of what mainstream academic thought is.
Not that Citizendium is a bad idea. Just that Larry Sanger is the wrong person to run it.
-Phil