Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/27/2009 1:26:17 PM PST by Titus-Maximus
Since my Saturday column described how Wikipedia editors have been feverishly rewriting climate history over much of the decade, fair-minded Wikipedians have been doing their best to correct the record. No sooner than they remove gross distortions, however, than the distortions are replaced. William Connolley, a Climategate member and Wikipedia’s chief climate change propagandist, remains as active as ever. How does Wikipedia work and how does Connolley and his co-conspirators exercise control? Take Wikipedia’s page for Medieval Warm Period, as an example. In the three days following my column’s appearance, this page alone was changed some 50 times in battles between Connolley’s crew and those who want a fair presentation of history. One of the battles concerns the so-called hockey stick graphs, which purport to show that temperatures over the last 2000 years were fairly stable until the last century, when temperatures rose rapidly to today’s supposedly dangerous and unprecedented levels. In these graphs, the Medieval Warm Period – a period of several centuries around the year 1000 – appears to be a modest bump along the way. Before the hockey stick graphs began to be published about a decade ago, scientists everywhere – including those associated with the UN itself – viewed the Medieval Warm Period as much hotter than today. Rather than appearing as a modest bump compared to today’s high temperatures, the Medieval Warm Period looked more like a mountain next to the molehill that is today’s temperature increase. The hockey stick graphs led to an upheaval in scientific understanding when the UN reversed itself and declared them bona fide. Soon after, the hockey stick graphs were shown to be bogus by a blue-chip panel of experts assembled by the US Congress.
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Connolly at the least should recuse himself or be barred for life from editing Wikipedia. Are not he and his colleagues under investigation for unethical practices?
Pretty soon we will see Bernie Madoff writing on Portfolio Management Best Practices
Wiki, for the advancement of fraud.
Wiki is a tremendously valuable resource for any sort of topic for which no controversy could conceivably exist; for anything else, it’s totally worthless.
Wikipedia - Where only the overwhelming desire of one group over another in a forum that ‘anyone can edit.’ have the final say and hence, ‘Own the truth.’
An Encyclopedia written by Mob rule?
Does anyone see the absurdity of that, except me?
Now here we are.
Among the new colorful phrases:
"Are you wikipediaing me?"
"That is such a load of wikipedia!"
: )
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