Fred Bauder wrote:
You're changing the subject. Which is that an excellent article written by a knowledgable person which CONFORMS TO THE ACCEPTED CANON OF KNOWLEDGE can be trashed back to the level of what the average users remember from their undergraduate courses.
That I'll agree is true. There are plenty of fields where the state of the art has advanced considerably in the past 10-20 years, but where the general state of education in the field is still mostly teaching the state of the art circa 10-20 years ago. In those cases someone who knows what they're talking about will have to insist that it stay with the updated version, even if the newer material is only taught in graduate courses--as long as there are references to it indeed being the current state of the field.
-Mark