Well maybe I'm in the minority, but I haven't been under the impression that the idea that the Star Wars lasers that can't even shout down test missiles were the cause of the Columbia disaster.
And if we have to do is add that "experts tend to disagree" I think we'll soon have the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Lyndon Larouche's conspiracy theories about the Queen of England and a load of other "crackpot theories" included in related articles as important pieces of info -- duly noting that they aren't NPOV facts.
Just my $0.02, Brian (Bcorr)
Lir wrote at Wed Feb 25 19:43:44 PST 2004
Plautus adds a lot of bullshit to the wikipedia, but he also has a lot of "fringe" sources to cite. For instance, he apparently thinks that the Columbia Space Shuttle was shot down by a US missile-defense laser; likewise, he thinks that tornados generate some kind of plasma.
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In short, Plautus is adding the kind of information which the Wikipedia should contain. I will agree that this information should not be presented as NPOV fact, it most certainly should be presented with an "experts tend to disagree" disclaimer -- however, it should NOT be deleted.
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Brian Corr wrote:
Well maybe I'm in the minority, but I haven't been under the impression that the idea that the Star Wars lasers that can't even shout down test missiles were the cause of the Columbia disaster.
Those who had belonged to the same Russian gun club as Lee Harvey Oswald considered him among the least competent marksmen in the club. This made it hard for them to believe that he could possibly have succeeded in assasinating President Kennedy.
And if we have to do is add that "experts tend to disagree" I think we'll soon have the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Lyndon Larouche's conspiracy theories about the Queen of England and a load of other "crackpot theories" included in related articles as important pieces of info -- duly noting that they aren't NPOV facts.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion comes up often enough in various context that it needs an article. Such an article needs to be fair, but it also needs to include appropriate cautions.
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