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Wikipedia scientism
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IsraTrance Senior Member
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Posted : Jun 1, 2006 13:27
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brb345
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Posted : Jun 2, 2006 17:38
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nice read ..thanks  |
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Nobita
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Posted : Jun 6, 2006 20:01
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very interesting article.
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Hg
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Posted : Jun 6, 2006 22:43
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could someone summarize it please... hahah
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Meijin
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Posted : Jul 21, 2006 19:08
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yes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Criticism_and_controversy
haha yourself
but a sort of 'double hermeneutic' (which wikipedia don't have a reference for) aka 'reflexivity' whereby the knowledge about itself change it and make it become something else again ("you got me in a chain reaction")
over and over and out
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Meijin
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Posted : Jul 24, 2006 16:25
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Actually, whilst I thought that Jared was whinging a bit, I must admit that I DO think that wikipedia DOES suffer from ethnocentricism - particularly North American bias. I'm not sure whether that's because some topics (or the whole book) have affluent wired readers submitting texts and data and 'colonising' the space. But some entries ARE a bit shockingly biased to American knowledge production.
Of course, like any text, if the reader chooses to base their information solely on it then there are gonna be problems - I mean, would you trust any book as having the whole truth contained within? (OK, APART from cookery books and car manuals)
But maybe we should bear in mind that, according to po-mo, there are as many texts as readers?
PS. I admit that I also have a slight aversion to the 'this is contentious and hasn't been verified in laboratory conditions' liners that it banners on some topics.
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