Crowdsourcing and Scientific Truth

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday May 6, 2012 @03:09AM from the truth-by-committee dept.

ygslash writes "In an opinion piece in the New York Times Sunday Review, Jack Hitt states that comments posted to on-line articles, and elsewhere on line, have de facto become an important factor in what is accepted as scientific truth. From the article: 'Any article, journalistic or scientific, that sparks a debate typically winds up looking more like a good manuscript 700 years ago than a magazine piece only 10 years ago. The truth is that every decent article now aspires to become the wiki of its own headline.'"

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Incorrect intro by Internal+Modem · 2012-05-06 03:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"THE greatest bird news of our lifetime occurred at the height of the George W. Bush administration."

WRONG!

This is the greatest bird news from the George W. Bush administration.