Gregory Kohs says:
June 14th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Utterly hypocritical that Jimmy Wales would speak out against “generic spreading of lies onlineâ€.
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/12/69880http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=470I thought that Georgetown had a good reputation for producing independent thinkers, but the fact that not one member of the audience questioned Wales on the above scandal, or about how Wales downplayed his hire of Ryan “Essjay†Jordan even though he knew of his academic credentials fraud, or about how Wales asked Wikipedia volunteers to touch up the biography of Rachel Marsden just before Wales “interfaced†with her at the Doubletree, leads me to believe that there’s not much of anything going on at Georgetown these days.
I’m sure I’ll be criticized for being “mean†and “ugly†here, but at some point, the truth really does need to win out over fake civility.