[WikiEN-l] I suppose it's not good to make fun of physics cranks

[Jay Litwyn]

"Bod Notbod" <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news://news.gmane.org/3ae0a6ac0908220646v78d48fa8p9ecd3ff5c9874c3d@mail.gmail.com...
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:57 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > "So standard physics is a morasse of unprovable assumptions,
> > unobservables, and blatantly incorrect theory. By now it comes as no
> > surprise that wikipedia suppresses all the flaws. It is in the
> > interest of their “moderators” to do so, otherwise sinecures from
> > public funding will be in danger. These are soft jobs based on the
> > intellectual inertia of Governments."

> Heh, and to think we devote most of our time to expressing concerns
> that *advertising* would compromise the public's view of Wikipedia's
> NPOV.

> Does WMF receive government funding? I thought it merely got tax
> breaks (which I suppose some would argue amounts to the same thing).

> Regardless, and has been said throughout the ages, "you just can't win".

Ginsberg's Restatement of the three laws of thermodynamics:
1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't quit.