[Wikipedia-l] Re: The Onion on Peer Review

[Chad Perrin]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:15:39PM +0100, Timwi wrote:
> Rowan Collins wrote:
> > On 4/24/05, Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Joseph Reagle wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Given the latest fire-storm on questions of authority and peer 
> >>> review, this might make some smile! :):)
> >>> 
> >>> http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4116&n=3
> >> 
> >> The article is a public humiliation of a hard-working 10-year-old 
> >> student, and condones the bullying he receives from classmates. 
> >> That kind of story makes you smile?
> > 
> > And just in case: you do realise it's fiction, don't you. ;)
> 
> Where does it say that? The site passes itself off as a "news source",
> so I don't think it was unreasonable of me to think it was real.
> 

Err . . . The Onion is satire.  It doesn't seriously purport to be a
"news source" in the normal sense.  Its stories are intended to be taken
as satirical treatments of the news, and as far as I'm aware none of its
stories have ever been true.

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