On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:32:22 +0200, "Steve Bennett" stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with you that we are going to "get hoaxed", but I'm not sure that insisting on sources is even going to help that much - not all sources can be easily checked, and even those that can be, aren't necessarily checked very often.
It's a recipe for FUTON bias. I remember an article on Tuatafa Hori; it was vigorously asserted that there was a source, a rare French book as I recall, which was published in very small numbers and is not available in more than a handful of libraries. Assuming good faith took a bit of a dent...
Guy (JzG)