[Dclug] Open Source Science... caution is needed...

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 15:26:31 EDT 2009


On Tuesday 02 June 2009 3:18:08 pm nicholasdonovan at netscape.net wrote:
> My concern is that OpenSource will lose in the academic and ultimately
> professional realms if we allow psedudo-science to reign in the Wiki
> environments.

Same response I give to "don't use Wikipedia as a source on a paper because it 
can be edited by anyone":
Don't use Wikipedia as a source on a paper because you shouldn't be using an 
encyclopedia as a source *PERIOD*

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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