Re: Anarchopedia etc.

["Andy Turnbull" andyt@xxxxxxxx]

Peer review may protect against error, but it also protects against new
ideas, or ciriticism of old ones. It was an early form of peer review that
burned Giordano Bruno at the stake, and later sentenced Galileo to house
arrest.


andy t



----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia M. Godfrey" 

To: 
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: Anarchopedia etc.



flash wrote:

Wikipedia is the ultimate edition of what the Enlightenment wanted to
achieve by publishing all known facts


But how do you distinguish facts from opinions from downright
balderdash if you have no peer review? Not that peer review has
always worked as it should, but I haven't heard of anything better.
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx




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