"I can be fanatical in my defense of liberal societies, not because... I'm sure they have discovered the One Best Way of Life, but because they embody a process that allows fallible people to seek continual improvement."

"Who am I going to believe; the overwhelming educational, legal and government community backed by scores of investigative documentations or a CPU Grad? You guess."

"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."