Kurt Jansson schrieb:
possibility. But maybe that's a just lack of my democratic, pluralistic engagement and an excess of my scientific believing emotions. (BTW: is parascience a science?)
I remember when we first wrote the presentation of Guglielmo Marconi (http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi) and I stated that he was the inventor of radio. Uh-uh. Someone else (LDC?) was very eager to point out that this was only a myth with no truth at all, and that everybody else in the universe had invented radio before Marconi (ok, so I might exaggerate just a bit to make my point). After a long discussion we wrote that for various reasons, Marconi "is often credited as the 'father of radio'." We could all agree on this.
So, the final text in Wikipedia is not just the correct truth, but also the result of a negotiation process between conflicting minds. It's an evolution - only the fittest texts will survive. :-)