> On 24 February 2012 09:34, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote: > >> On 02/22/12 6:04 PM, David Goodman wrote: >> >>> There are many subjects in which there would be multiple schools of >>> thought with little agreement; anyone following book reviews in the >>> humanities or social sciences or even some of the sciences would know >>> the intensity with which the highest level scholars attack the work of >>> those they disagree with. Appoint one as expert, and that field will >>> have a substantial bias. Appoint several, and they will endlessly >>> dispute with each other. >>> >> >> We shouldn't expect ourselves to be exempt from this kind of academic >> discourse. We owe it to our readers to provide a clear and fair-minded >> presentation of these differences. >> >> > Isn't that what David is saying? That if we allowed partisans to hold > sway > by virtue of their expertise in the subject we are not going to get a > fair > minded presentation (either a one-sided one, or a major argument if two > or > more experts clash). > > By introduction lay editors with no specific interest or investment, > except > in writing a good article, we moderate this issue (not entirely, but > there > you go). > > Tom
Still original research. And even worse, not interesting. A cleaned up version that omits the research of those who are passionate about the subject would pretty much be a bucket of warm spit. Although I don't think we need to consider Howard Zinn an expert on anything but his own birthday. Footnote 49 from Haymarket affair: "Some anarchists privately indicated they had later learned the bomber's identity but kept quiet to avoid further prosecutions. Howard Zinn, in A People's History of the United States suggests Rudolph Schnaubelt was an agent of the police posing as an anarchist and threw the bomb (thus giving police a pretext to arrest the leaders of Chicago's anarchist movement.) This theory does not have wide support among historians." Hardly surprising; as far as I can see, he just made it up. Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l