2008/6/24 Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca:
Andrew Gray wrote:
Our job is to WRITE AN ENCYCLOPEDIA.
And we're doing a pretty poor job of it if we DELIBERATELY OMIT RELEVANT, NPOV INFORMATION.
NPOV, ultimately, is the best "moral code" I think we can hope for. Both in terms of general acceptance and in terms of balancing the occasionally-competing needs of being informative and not being "evil."
It's not clear. Perhaps editors need a hippocratic oath.
Information can do harm, both accurate and inaccurate information.