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by netbioserror 37 days ago
Are you seriously suggesting an encyclopedia should be packed with crackpot conspiracy theories, academic charlatanry, quackery, and agitprop? Or does that not defeat the point? Keep the author's biography, but his "theories" are best left for a footnote in the biography, or websites that explicitly serve as a museum for failed ideas.
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A) that’s a very biased view of it that you clearly are emotionally invested in B) an encyclopedia should describe all things factually. It’d be one thing if it described it as truth, but describing it truthfully is far different
A) Non-argument. B) Repositories of knowledge should not contain anti-knowledge.
Since you can just counter anything I say with calling it “anti-knowledge,” I’ll leave you with a profound quote: “That’s just like, your opinion, man”
Agitprop like "aesthetics are fascist" is pretty blatant opinion. Live up to your own standards.
? I never said I agreed with the theories presented in the article. I just believe in free speech :)
The entire Internet can bear the burden of free speech. I hold encyclopedias to a much higher, gatekept standard.