[WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 11:51:30 UTC 2007


On 17/01/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:

> Indeed I think this is a general feature.  I was a lot more deferent
> towards experts before I went into academia---once you find out how the
> sausage is made, and even occasionally get deferred to yourself in an
> area where you know your word has no business being accepted
> unquestioningly, it's hard to view it in as idealized a fashion.


"I am what passes for an expert in field x. This is a frightening concept."


- d.



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