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To: Grainne who wrote (95009)	1/27/2005 10:37:12 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"But I understand how the entire concept of Wikipedia might be scary to a conservative." LOL. Clever slam. Yeah, conservatives are afraid of knowledge. Whatever you want to believe. Yes, it's an interesting way of accumulating large amounts of data on the cheap, but the point is it is, by it's very "organic" structure, completely suspect as a source of factual information. You could go there and insert whatever made up BS you want, and then go cite it somewhere else, pretending to be citing a reliable reference source. It says whatever someone with an agenda in a particular subject wants it to say, with no fact-checking, no peer review, nothing to prevent it from being misused. Only the possibility that someone else might come along one day and fix it. It's as trustworthy as the Ministry of Truth. The end of objective reality might be overstating it, but only a little.