[WikiEN-l] One alternative

[Anthony]

On Dec 6, 2007 1:33 PM, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> Guy wrote:
>  > Maybe people who incessantly restate their incorrect opinion in the
>  > face of repeated rebuttals from people who are plainly much better
>  > informed should, well, shut the fuck up.
>
> Wasn't that attitude (though without the obscenity) basically what
> Durova was insisting on in the immediate wake of her bad block... that
> she knew what she was doing, and everybody should just shut up and trust
> her on it?

What "Durova" did wasn't nearly as bad.  She refused to provide
evidence, but she didn't try to stop people from talking about what
evidence was already out there.