(January 24, 2010 at 1:04 pm)Pippy Wrote: haven't we been over this.That isn't how we do things on this site Pippy. You of all people should know that by now. If you want to participate in a discussion, you back up your assertions with evidence.
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Telling people to "just do a Google search" is a pathetic attempt to weasel out of presenting such evidence. You cannot trust everything Google gives you. Heck, Google returns results for thousands of debunked pages of 9/11 Truther propaganda. They don't contain a shred of actual evidence in them; they are all hearsay, and yet Google has them in search results.
This is the internet. People post whatever they want on it, regardless of whether it is true or not. This is why references are so important, why the original documents and testimonies must be found, and why sites like Wikipedia are so accurate. Mass editing has been demonstrated to be similar to the process of natural selection. Bad information is weeded out, good information is kept in. I'm not saying you have to trust everything Wikipedia says, but look and read the references and you'll be fine. More experts contribute to Wikipedia than any other resource on the planet.
