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This is kind of like deliberate decision to miss the point based on a mistake in an irrelevant point. Too personal to argue though.

• Raphael_Amiard 16y ago
  No it's based on the number of informations you're able to verify from the article, and the number of those which are false. Also this very piece of information is not irrelevant, it is at the core of the subject at hand. If you're able to verify a small number of "facts" presented in the article, and a big proportion of those are false, the probability the entire article is bull went from 'unknown' to 'very high', relative to your personal knowledge. Eventually you could be wrong, but there is enough sources of information on the internet to allow me to choose not to read those i think are bogus. Even worse, the mistake i pointed out is a very simple one. It's almost impossible to think, from the information you find on the web that openCL is ATI's equivalent to nvidia's proprietary CUDA technology. The mistake serves the article well though, by antagonizing the two technologies, and making the whole thing more sensational than it needs be. So this isn't a simple "irrelevant" mistake like you said. It's bad journalism, plain and pure.