Vee wrote:
On 06/10/2007, David Goodman wrote:
the day WP starts tending to be on the
sympathetic side, will be the last
day anyone can trust it.
The point is that no one can trust Wikipedia.
That's exactly as
things should be! But we keep battling with people
who want to trust something, and for whom that lack of trust is a major
source of insecurity. We want them to mistrust other sources just as
much. For centuries they could "Trust God", but the armour has been
falling away from that particular kind of political deception. We want
students to question, but that skill is not well-taught when received
truths are a significant element in pedagogy.
Ec