X-Message-Number: 31521
From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: religion declining
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:29:14 +0100
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On 19 Mar 2009, at 10:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:

>>> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion.
>>
>> Wikipedia is known to be unreliable and biased.
>>
> This would be an argumentum ad hominem if Wikipedia
> were a person.  It's a lot of people, so the name
> almost applies, but there may be another one.
>
> Compared to what?  I've found it to be quite helpful;
> then again, I don't look for things like who's on the
> right side of the Arab-Israeli conflict.  They also
> seem to be good about labeling controversial topics
> as such, and biases (which are hard to eliminate) are
> identified.


Jimmy Wales has been courted by venture capital folks and that seemed  
to be related to tampering with the entry "naked shorting" for a  
while. One cult has infiltrated the higher levels and the entry for  
their guru is always favorable. Many other cases have been discussed.  
Here is a more systematic approach:



<http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/140807_wikipedia_credibility.htm
 >


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David Stodolsky
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