Vee wrote:
On 06/10/2007, David Goodman wrote:
the day WP starts tending to be on the sympathetic side, will be the last day anyone can trust it.
The point is that no one can trust Wikipedia.
That's exactly as things should be! But we keep battling with people who want to trust something, and for whom that lack of trust is a major source of insecurity. We want them to mistrust other sources just as much. For centuries they could "Trust God", but the armour has been falling away from that particular kind of political deception. We want students to question, but that skill is not well-taught when received truths are a significant element in pedagogy.
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