Rumour And Teh Internets
The internet, says it’s [British] creator ‘needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science’.
Erm, why? People have brains. And, guess what, they can use them too!
People can check the veracity of sources on the internet. And, frankly, only an idiot would take something read in just one place on the ‘net - no matter where that is - as “the truth”.
Even were this not the case, how precisely would any system to verify any website work? Who is to say what the “truth” is? The sort of gossip and rumour spread by Guido might be just that, or it might be true. So what system can be used to verify his blog? Or, frankly, any website.
No sort of peer review or cross-verification could work, as that would leave it wide open to the very thing it is trying to combat. The only way would be to have a repository of “the truth”, and send all defintions through that. Which would go against the entire ethos of the internet.
So it is both a stupid and an unworkable idea. What a way to launch an new organisation. eh?
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