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Being an expert, while nice and valuable, isn’t a claim to be a final arbiter. Authority is earned provisionally by surviving criticism. Citing experts is good
by nemo44x 1y ago
Being an expert, while nice and valuable, isn’t a claim to be a final arbiter. Authority is earned provisionally by surviving criticism.
Citing experts is good practice, but invoking them to silence dissent is anti-scientific.
- mapontosevenths 1y ago> Citing experts is good practice, but invoking them to silence dissent is anti-scientific. That's not really what we're discussing here. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. The encyclopedia should report things that are widely regarded to be factual as facts. They should not give equal time to every looney tune with a pet theory. Noteworthy dissent about complex subjects doesn't come from the unqualified, it comes from other qualified people with differing ideas.