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Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth (technologyreview.com)
1 point by razorburn on Oct 20, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I don't trust wikipedia on issues in the soft sciences. it's a nice reference for the hard sciences.


i absolutely love wikipedia. it's such an organic system that just WORKS so well, it's elegant. if i need something absolutely factual i will of course take it from vetted sources. but when i am just researching day-to-day curiousities, i'll gladly accept the word of "a friend who seems to know what he's talking about"

that's what wikipedia is to me




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