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Are cyber bullying tactics employed by dogmatic Skeptics on Wikipedia?
03-20-2014, 10:08 AM
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Are cyber bullying tactics employed by dogmatic Skeptics on Wikipedia?
Join Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris for an interview with social media consultant and Wikipedia cyber bullying victim Rome Viharo

http://www.skeptiko.com/236-rome-viharo-...a-problem/
Jessica - of course there are people who edit wikipedia
michael - it seems a little complicated for you

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03-20-2014, 10:21 AM
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The right answer for you is always that skeptics are bad people and bullies and besides look over there don't look at my inability to justify my claims with evidence.

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03-20-2014, 10:27 AM
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Alex Tsakiris produces the pseudoskeptical podcast Skeptiko - Science at the Tipping Point, which, despite its name, advocates various forms of quantum woo, parapsychology and evolutionary teleology. The "tipping point" in the podcast's subtitle is intended to claim that science is on the point of a paradigm shift away from materialism.
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03-20-2014, 10:42 AM
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Chances are yes. Welcome to the internet.
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03-20-2014, 10:43 AM
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Wikipedia is a joke - he who has more numbers or is better organized gets to control the truth.

You know, that might be a fun thing to do.. Set up a completely fictitious group, perhaps 10 or 15 people running a WWW server who can set up phony web sites to act as sources and see how easy it would be to add this group along with a completely fictitious history onto wikipedia and see what happens and how it evolves.

Oh, apparently it has been done -- quite a few times:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:L..._Wikipedia
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03-20-2014, 10:51 AM
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Nah, Wikipedia merely noted a delineation point when some scientists like Rupert Sheldrake stopped talking about science and started going on about parapsychology and morphic resonances-which sound sciency but are actually to do with ghosts and magic powers!

This annoyed Rome Viharo who wanted to redefine someone who gets skeptical when you talk about ghosts and magic powers as some kind of religious fundementalist-which is stupid!
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03-20-2014, 11:02 AM
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I know how he feels. I was also antagonized by the admins at Conservapedia when I tried to correct their article regarding New Age theories, geocentrism, George Soros, etc. Luckily, we can make our own wikis, where we won't be persecuted by THE MAN.
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