The Wiki Defense

... recently Landis has begun generating more nuanced press coverage. The change is largely the result of his Wiki Defense, in which he posted 370 pages of his test documents online in the hope of unearthing experts and explanations for the suspicious result. "Wiki" refers to the open editing systems best embodied by Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that relies on a wisdom-of-crowds approach to verifying the accuracy of its entries. Landis is the first ... Full Story »

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Dara Friedman-Wheeler
4.5
by Dara Friedman-Wheeler - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a really interesting look at a novel use of the internet. In addition, it gives the reader (and hopefully other journalists) pause to think about how willing we are as a society to blindly trust what we perceive to be "science," rather than subjecting scientific results to the very scrutiny the scientific process requires.

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