Lan Barnes wrote:
On Thu, June 14, 2007 6:56 pm, DJA wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
DJA wrote:
Of course dead tree books (more importantly, dead tree text books)
tend to be out of date, or incorrect, or missing vital data, or all of
that until/unless a new edition comes out correcting the error. But
then what are the odds that errata gets passed on to students already
exposed to the bad data? While Wikipedia tends to be self-healing.
Okay, show me some data.
For low-traffic and uncontroversial topics wikipedia probably doesn't
need to be self-healing as only interested people are likely to write
or
edit the entry.
You guys are all aware that high school history (and now science) texts
are subjected to political scrutiny and dumbed down to the lowest common
denominator, right? Actually, even lower. The native Americans quietly
disappeared from the continent (except for some vicious savages who
deserved what they got), and weren't subjected to mass deportations and
genocide.
Our past is too embarrassing.
Only a dozen or so Nisi Japanese were thrown in prison camps in
WW II and only for a couple of weeks and everybody's real sorry.
Hide the embarrassments.
Evolution
and heliocentricity along with carbon dating and gravity (13 - 15 billion
years of expansion? Oh no, just 6,000 years) are "theories" (meaning,
evidently, wild ass guesses of a bunch of atheistic pointy haired egg
heads).
Finally! The truth emerges.
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