On 6/2/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 5/31/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
And we haven't even mentioned the usefulness of the yellow pages in establishing the existence of a business over a time frame.
It's even easier to put false information into the yellow pages section.
So? That doesn't mean that every entry has false information.
No, it doesn't. However, it does mean that a phone book isn't a *reliable* source.
That conclusion is not logical..If you are going to be imposing such strict criteria on one kinde of publication you should be applying these criteria to them all. Very few publications would pass your test of reliability.
Ec
What other reliable publications are there that are easy to put false information into? I don't think we should consider as reliable sources wikis, or random Internet websites, or the newspaper classifieds sections either.
There are millions of academic publications - ones that actually attempt to verify the information they publish. To call that "very few" is ludicrous.
Anthony