On 8/8/06, Dabljuh dabljuh@gmx.net wrote:
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:16:05 -0400 "The Cunctator" cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia has, and naturally should, a strong bias towards verifiable information.
Here I disagree. When someone reads anything on Wikipedia that goes against social consensus (the mainstream view, if you want), increasingly, the first reaction is to go "Oh Wikipedia's got it wrong!"
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I disagree with a certain interpretation of NPOV that basically says that the mainstream view should be viewed as the right POV. The only POV that can claim to be the rightest of all, is the one that is supported by most of the evidence - not the number of people who believe it. I would go as far as promoting a "scientific point of view" in favor of NPOV.
And to imply Wikipedia had a bias in favor of scientific opinion instead of popular, is simply delusional tbh.
I'm not sure how you think you're disagreeing with me. I wrote:
"Wikipedia has, and naturally should, a strong bias towards verifiable information."
You wrote:
"The only POV that can claim to be the rightest of all, is the one that is supported by most of the evidence - not the number of people who believe it."
Verifiability flows from evidence.