How strange. To apply "faith based" to anything that I have something to do with clearly betrays a lack of understanding.
Then comes the crucial and entirely faith-based step:
- Some unspecified quasi-Darwinian process will assure that those
writings and editings by contributors of greatest expertise will survive; articles will eventually reach a steady state that corresponds to the highest degree of accuracy.
This is a very common misunderstanding of our project, but it is inexcusable and irresponsible for a former editor of Britannica to make such a claim without even doing (apparently) the most cursory of research into how our work is actually conducted. The process of review is neither "unspecified" nor "quasi-Darwinian" but is in fact carried out in great public detail on talk and policy pages.
There's nothing "faith based" about it -- it's good old fashioned *rational* hard work, undertaken by people of good will in a spirit of love and kindness.
--Jimbo