" So how did Fischer respond? By writing a new post accusing the SPLC of engaging in the "propagation of known falsehoods" about homosexuality ... and simply restating the very same points that the SPLC had already debunked: "

"Paul Maidment, chief editor of Forbes.com, tendered his resignation, while new ‘chief product officer’ Lewis Dvorkin called an on-the-record meeting to announce a bold new online strategy for the company. ... That Forbes.com will soon be opening its doors to 1000s of unpaid contributors and that [rather than commissioning quality in-house journalism] “Forbes editors will increasingly become curators of talent”."

""Why was he consumed with hate, resentment and bitterness?" [Phyllis] Schlafly asks rhetorically. "Cho was an English department major and senior. ... English departments are often the weirdest and/or most left wing." "

S.M.: "Indeed in most cases, torture is used by authoritarian regimes with the intent of destroying civil society. To this end, journalists, activists, lawyers, teachers, students, labor organizers, and intellectuals are its primary targets."

Vacuous; see the StrayPackets post for a damning critique. See comment 11 for effort biases (and compare, say, the Naruto entries with the Sociology entries), and see comment 12 for profound ignorance of what knowledge means.

An all-too common problem, not unique to Wikipedia: "it’s apparent that many of Wikipedia’s supporters value the dynamics of its community more than the credibility of the product they deliver."

"If more academics deigned to work toward reforms, they might contribute ideas about taxes, education, trade, employment, investment, foreign policy, and security from jihadists. But the academic left is too busy guarding the flame of nullification."

"a book dealing with the questions it and others have raised about 9/11 has been published. It's called "Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts" put together by the editors of the magazine, Popular Mechanics."

"many defenders... aggressively reject any suggestion that projects like Wikipedia give special rights to expertise... It beggars belief that anyone could seriously think [experts] are no more credible or reliable a source of information than anyone else"

"...a view that is echoed by many academics and former contributors, including Larry Sanger, who argues that too many Wikipedians are fundamentally suspicious of experts and unjustly confident of their own opinions."

"His hero is the guy without any expertise who can see through the palaver of elites. There's no need to accumulate expertise through years of study or experience, because the Internet has become the great repository of knowledge and experience."

[Critic Kenneth Turan:] "If you wanted to go to a restaurant for a special occasion and someone said, 'Why not go to McDonald's? More people go there than any other place.' Would that really be enough to convince you?"

"Intellectuals from all regions of Iraq have been killed. They include specialists in physical education, journalism, Arabic literature, and the sciences. Physicians have also been targeted at a high rate."