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[Richmond Mathewson]

As I, or anyone else could write on Wikipedia about Hamlet being
Shakespeare's coded love notes to a camel he met in Oxford, I really wonder
why anyone, 'academic' or not, would stick their neck under that
guillotine's fairly jittery blade escapes me completely.

I often look up things on Wikipedia, THEN check them elsewhere.

On Fri, 17 Jun 2022, 19:49 J. Landman Gay via use-livecode, <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> The same rules apply to US schools. It may be similar to doing a critique
> of Hamlet after reading only the Cliff Notes summary. No actual research
> or
> thought required.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> On June 17, 2022 11:11:14 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > I wonder why that is? While you may find inaccurate information on
> > Wikipedia, the vastly overwhelming information there is absolutely
> > accurate. But isn't that true of EVERY source? In my life experience I
> have
> > found that settled science is very unsettled indeed. Salt causes high
> blood
> > pressure. Sugar causes diabetes. Red meat causes cancer. Milk is bad.
> Eggs
> > are bad. Coffee is bad. Mercury is a molten ball. Life needs sunlight to
> > live. A nuclear blast will render an area unlivable for 10,000 years. I
> > could go on and on.
> >
> > Mankind is constantly revising "settled" science, and well we should,
> but
> > what I object to is being told that what academia is now telling us is
> the
> > new absolute, and I am expected to just accept that.
> >
> > Bob S
> >
> >
> >> On Jun 17, 2022, at 01:57 , Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
> >> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> From what I know (my wife is a senior academic at a university)
> references
> >> to Wikipedia pages are academic suicide, fail, go straight to jail, do
> not
> >> pass GO, do not collect 200 smackers, and you get the picture.
> >
> >
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