On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:32:22 +0200, "Steve Bennett"
<stevagewp(a)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)
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