On 27/10/2007, joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu <joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu> wrote:
Quoting David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
> Because people would rather believe there is a
conspiracy to suppress
> the truth than that they are wrong.
To some extent that's the case. But it doesn't
help matters that we
often aren't
nearly diplomatic enough with people with little or no prior experience with
editing Wikipedia. And I think there are occasions with cabalism does
actually
occur or enough discussion occurs off Wikipedia that it could easily look
like
cabalism to a bystander.
Oh, certainly. But the case which was posted as an example (everyone
should read that blog entry, it's wonderful and proves AFD can do its
job well) is a good example of theorists who work by finding three
coincidences, assuming bad faith and seeing what they get from there.
- d.