"Engineer Ed" Hoax Proves Bias at Wikipedia

[GlennB]

Maybe TruthSmearer has been sneaking around over there for a while.
From Wiki "Controlled Demolition" :

The tallest legally demolished building was the 47-story.......

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

Maybe TruthSmearer has been sneaking around over there for a while.
From Wiki "Controlled Demolition" :

The tallest legally demolished building was the 47-story.......

Not entirely innacurate. Last I heard, it is highly illegal to fly hijacked aircraft into buildings for the pourpose of demolition as a means of expressing religious bigotry.

 

[Alareth]

Oh, good grief.

Bobby Fischer became the youngest chess grandmaster in 1958. He overwhelmed Boris Spassky to become the only American world titlist.

Abby Scott won the female division in a childs' chess tournament in 1989. Seven girls played.

Ergo, 9/11 was an inside job.

QED

Soooooo .... Just where were you on 9/11/01? Or did your handlers give you a cover story?

 

[Mashuna]

Oh, good grief.

Bobby Fischer became the youngest chess grandmaster in 1958. He overwhelmed Boris Spassky to become the only American world titlist.

Abby Scott won the female division in a childs' chess tournament in 1989. Seven girls played.

Ergo, 9/11 was an inside job.

QED

That's pretty much the most convincing theory I've seen so far.

I'm off to post it on Wiki now, that'll guarantee its truth. At least, once I include a youtube video of a game of monopoly as corroborating evidence.

 

[valis]

Well this isn't the first time someone has planted false data to prove that someone was incapable of detecting B.S.

http://skepdic.com/projectalpha.html

 

[stateofgrace]

I don't get this, maybe it is because I now just skim through what TS says and don't fully read it. So I apologies if I haven't fully understood what is going on here.

Let me try and get my head around this. TS makes up a load of nonsense, invents a false personality, keeps it up for awhile and the admits it was all one big joke.

Maybe I missed something or maybe I am slightly sensitive but I really don't see what is so funny here.

TS, do you actually get off on mocking this dreadful event? Does it give you some sort of purpose in what is a clearly pointless existence?

Questioning your government is one thing but to have a laugh at the expense of those who died is despicable by any standard. So enjoy your laugh, I personally won't be laughing along with you.

 

[qarnos]

I don't get this, maybe it is because I now just skim through what TS says and don't fully read it. So I apologies if I haven't fully understood what is going on here.

I've only been skimming, too, but the jist I get is:

1. TS creates a sock puppet on Wikipedia.
2. TS makes the sock look like a CT debunker.
3. TS posts false data to an unrelated (and apparently obscure) page using the sock.
4. After a week, with the data he posted unaltered, he exposes the scam and claims it proves bias on WP.

I'm not sure it proves much, since the page he edited, from what I have read here (I haven't checked it myself), was obscure and rarely visited.

I'm sure there is a level of bias in that people aren't going to trust data coming from a CTist and are more likely to double-check the facts and remove any BS. Wikipedia has a policy against original research and I'm sure most of the CT crap will fall under this umbrella, although there is a need to represent both sides of the argument (not neccessary giving equal weight to each).

I don't think there is a bias in the way of people knowingly not removing bunk data if it comes from a skeptic or main-stream source. The false data he added was removed as soon as it was discovered to be false.

To be fair to TS, I don't think he was trying to have a laugh at the expense of victims - he was just trying to prove a somewhat misguided a point in a very misguided fashion.

 

[Mashuna]

Are you seriously comparing wiki to a professional journal?

Well, I guess that wiki meets the general CT standards for a professional, peer-reviewed publication - maybe that's where Prof Jones has been publishing his studies

 

[fuelair]

For the answer to such a question to have relevance we would first have to determine how recording the wikipedia database to the CD affects it's aerodynamic properties.

Would the wiki CD have a measurably different trajectory than a blank CD?

Would a wiki CD have a different tracjectory than a CD with a different type of data, like perhaps 600 megabytes of goat porn?

Would the blank CD have more useful data on it than all the writings of TS anywhere on the vast world of the Internet. My vote is yes!!

 

[chipmunk stew]

Would the blank CD have more useful data on it than all the writings of TS anywhere on the vast world of the Internet. My vote is yes!!

So would the goat porn CD.