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Whilst Pilate asked Jesus “What is truth?” it is only appropriate that in a post-modern age, a post-modern satirist like Stephen Colbert would ask “what is truthiness” and is it enough for us in this day and age– is a reasonable facsimile of the truth what we are settling for nowadays?<\/p>\n

My son the computer whiz sent me this recent article on the standard of ‘truth’ that Wikipedia uses, namely verifiability from a recognized source. When one couples this with the banning of original research, it leads to real problems, and explains why so many academics do not allow the use of Wikipedia in student papers much less in scholarly work. <\/p>\n

Check out the link below. Now someone needs to do a similar review of www.snopes.com, and its standard of truth, or perhaps truthiness. <\/p>\n

http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/tech\/08\/10\/21\/1657256.shtml<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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