Blogosphere Beats Peer Review Finding Stealth Creationist Paper
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 11:49
in Physics & Chemistry
Academia is notoriously resistant to change, which to some extent is a good thing. It was therefore no surprise that when Wikipedia became a phenomenon most academics scoffed at it as a passing fad, fatally flawed by its very core idea: anybody, and I mean anybody, can become a Wiki author and post new entries or edit existing ones. Surely, this will inevitably lead to chaos and complete unreliability, the critics said. read more
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