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, < [email protected]> 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 | [email protected] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > On June 17, 2022 11:11:14 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <[email protected]> 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 > >> <[email protected]> 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
