Jimmy Wales said:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
Fred Bauder said:
Folk with eccentric points of view such as splinter political parties often maintain websites and sometimes even publish books.
Then those websites and books are pretty good references for their opinions. I don't see a problem here. A flat earth society website is an excellent reference for a description of the views of that society.
Strawman argument. No one is suggesting that we can't refer to such source _for a description of their views_.
Then I must have misunderatood the argument entirely. That is all they could possibly be useful for.>
What we must say, if we are to be serious at all, is that the views of the flat earth society are totally inappropriate for a serious article on serious scientific views of the world.
Absolutely. This shouldn't need to be stated. No one source can dictate the nature of reality.