[WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium

[George Herbert]

On 1/16/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
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> > On 16 Jan 2007 at 14:58, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> It points to a fundamental flaw in Citizendium, and one that wouldn't
> >> surprise anyone who saw Larry's name attached to it - it's an
> >> encyclopedia that favors experts that's run by someone with a view of
> >> the academy that is wildly out of step with current senses of what
> >> mainstream academic thought is.
> >
> > Out of step with the leftist PC bullshit that's been piled high and
> > deep on most campuses since the '60s, anyway.
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> To be clear, I'm fine with that. It's a respectable viewpoint.
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> But it's a damn stupid viewpoint for anyone looking to write an
> encyclopedia that favors "experts." The experts go for that right
> now. If Larry wants an encyclopedia free of its biases, he should
> work on one. But he shouldn't call it an encyclopedia run by experts
> if he's going to dismiss the experts.
>
> -Phil

The problem with experts is that, outside the hard sciences and
engineering, you get so many opinions per expert, most of them
mutually contradictory at some level...

(ducking to avoid the brie and wine my humanist colleagues are
launching in my general direction)


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com