… and therefore Wikipedia can’t really be trusted. It’s sort of like the lamestream media in that way. Or Barack Obama. Once you’ve been exposed as having broken the sacred bonds of truth and honesty, even on a few issues, you lose the complete trust of the sensible set, and are ultimately completely screwed. It’s really an all or nothing proposition when it comes to trust and touting oneself as an honest source of objective information.
Wikipedia has long been suspected by conservatives and other sensible people of having a bias against anything conservative (again, like the lamestream media). But columnist Lawrence Solomon now exposes what I’m going to call apparent intellectual fraud with regard to the whole “man-made global warming” fraud, and its resulting ClimateGate scandal. His weekend column at NatPo is reported and discussed at the excellent WattsUpWithThat web site this weekend (that place is a solid go-to site for ClimateGate, etc), but the original Solomon column from Saturday Dec. 19 2009 is right here.
Here’s a snippet of the salient bits regarding Wikipedia:
…The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world — Wikipedia — in the wholesale rewriting of this history.
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…U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William Connolley — would take on particularly crucial duties.
Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known – Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world’s most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period.
All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.
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The “Medieval Warm Period” that Solomon refers to is also referred to a lot by Lord Monckton, whose video I last posted explained how the ClimateGate “scientists” bastardized it.
It’s really not as confusing as it might sound. It’s simply a massive fraud being perpetrated on you, which is being aided and abetted by most of the lamestream media, academia, liberal Hollywood, and exacerbated by the likes of Wikipedia and others. It’s not by shear coincidence that all those institutions are well-know as centers of liberal-leftist advocacy.
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