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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Rory O'Connor
3.9
by Rory O'Connor - Oct. 1, 2008

Interesting on two fronts: first, the information about how screwy the suposedly infallible drug testing system is; second, about yet another novel use of the rapidly proliferating wiki program. And let's not forget, as the author concludes, "Landis’s Wiki defense cannot overcome the inherent shortcomings of journalism, namely that we tend to be generalists and susceptible to a pack mentality. But it can, it seems, help us–even force us–to do our jobs better."

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