Posted on 01/01/2022 11:12:00 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Robby Soave, one of the hosts, of "The Hill Rising" channel normally has a smarmy vibe going on just below the surface. However, on a recent discussion about Joe Rogan's interview with Dr. Peter McCullough on his podcast, Soave's smarminess went through the roof when he admitted he that didn't know much about McCullough so he consulted his Wikipedia page. This led Soave to conclude authoritatively that McCullough said some things that are supposedly not true. Soave then defended his ridiculous reliance on Wikipedia by stating that "Wikipedia is generally pretty accurate" as if that settled the argument.
PING!
Wikipedia is so well sourced and fact checked that serious college professors will NOT allow you to source to it in research papers.
Not because it’s inaccurate, but because it doesn’t represent a primary source.
Now, that did make me laugh aloud! The equivalent of:
Stalin: The Soviet Union is generally pretty Democratic!
Maybe they should interview Dr. Peter McCullough on their show instead of Soave smearing him via Wikipedia.
I think it is a good start source for history before 2000 and obscure topics like the Polish zUkranian War of 1919. I think that tends to be apolitical. Current stuff, especially political, probably not so much.
Well it must be true since it’s posted on the internet.
That’s the key. I’m OK with using Wikipedia for factual matters that haven’t been politicized. Anything that’s at all political, though, forget it. Big-time bias.
Wikipedia isn’t bad unless something becomes political. When something gets political, the article gets loaded up with bs.
I read the article on the making of David Bowie’s 1976 album album Low yesterday. I’ve got to admit, it was amazingly detailed and well-researched.
If that doesn’t convince you, check out the article on the history of the Cornish language!
“Wikipedia is so well sourced and fact checked that serious college professors will NOT allow you to source to it in research papers.”
You’re talking about STEM profs (real STEM, not woke STEM).
The lib arts play profs - like Mikey - will eat anything, given the clowns that they now admit as students.
Wikipedia is mostly accurate. Where it fails to be is on hot political issue, topical social issues with differing opinions, and the smearing of public figures especially if the wiki moderators don’t like you.
One the worst one for me is the climate change page. The overlords and toadies of climate propaganda do not allow any science debate on the page and if the “prevailing views” are challenged, the sycophants immediately erase any dissent.
Wikipedia is mostly accurate. Where it fails to be is on hot political issue, topical social issues with differing opinions, and the smearing of public figures especially if the wiki moderators don’t like you.
One the worst one for me is the climate change page. The overlords and toadies of climate propaganda do not allow any science debate on the page and if the “prevailing views” are challenged, the sycophants immediately erase any dissent.
I know when I was creating papers for my postgraduate degree, one of my professors said they’d fail your paper if there were references from Wikipedia. I was excited there were APA generators vs. having to create from scratch.
I recently watched that video of Jordan Pederson here (this LINK brings you right to the part, watch for 30 seconds to get context) where the hostile interviewer tried to skewer him, and he got so far inside her verbal (LINK: OODA Loop was a revolutionary strategy for fighter pilots to codify a process to think faster than their opponents and win in aerial combat) that she regained consciousness on the debate floor (figuratively speaking) and had no idea how she got there, while Jordan Pederson had a mild chuckle...and even she had to laugh because she had no other way to cover her speechless embarrassment! It is brilliant!
Dr. McCullough is the same way.
If he got in a debate with someone like this metrosexual lightweight Robby Soave, he would find himself in the same embarrassing position the woman in the link above did. These people may be ignorant sheep and as dumb as a bag of hammers when their ideology rules them as it usually does, but they aren't stupid enough most of the time to get (LINK: OODA Loop was a revolutionary strategy for fighter pilots to codify a process to think faster than their opponents and win in aerial combat)
They are stupid, but even their primitive Leftist brains will try to keep them from having this done to them on a public stage:
For example, if you want to get the discography of a pop band or want to know what movies a favorite actor starred in, Wikipedia is the place to go for a quick answer. It's pretty hard to get political on compiling a list of books by John Grisham, for example, or a list of the world's tallest mountains.
I would not trust them on anything important however as the contributors tend to inject their political bias.
I was referring to the “Verbal” OODA loop where Jordan Petersen intellectually “pansed” her.
Dr. McCullough would do the same to nearly anyone opposing him on this subject if they got into a head to head unscripted debate or discussion. The people with medical degrees won’t go head to head with Dr. McCullough. He has too much direct command of his subject, and knows what he is talking about.
They are content to snipe him from cover.
He appears to be a big man. He can take it.
For non controversial generic information, for example what tv shows a famous actor appeared in or the syntax of specifying a crime job on a Linux computer it actually is mostly accurate. Its just that on any controversial issue that goes out the window.
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