On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
On 16 Jan 2007 at 14:58, Phil Sandifer
<Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It points to a fundamental flaw in Citizendium,
and one that wouldn't
surprise anyone who saw Larry's name attached to it - it's an
encyclopedia that favors experts that's run by someone with a view of
the academy that is wildly out of step with current senses of what
mainstream academic thought is.
Out of step with the leftist PC bullshit that's been piled high and
deep on most campuses since the '60s, anyway.
To be clear, I'm fine with that. It's a respectable viewpoint.
But it's a damn stupid viewpoint for anyone looking to write an
encyclopedia that favors "experts." The experts go for that right
now. If Larry wants an encyclopedia free of its biases, he should
work on one. But he shouldn't call it an encyclopedia run by experts
if he's going to dismiss the experts.
-Phil
The problem with experts is that, outside the hard sciences and
engineering, you get so many opinions per expert, most of them
mutually contradictory at some level...
(ducking to avoid the brie and wine my humanist colleagues are
launching in my general direction)
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com