An oldie but a goodie / Contreras gets Spanked.

[Randall Flagg]

Contreras Spanked Link:

"Oregon officials are also obligated under the settlement agreement to refrain from characterizing KWU as a diploma mill. The attorney General's office also agreed to provide ODA personnel with a training session on defamation law."
--Portland Business Journal  2004

I know it's a little old but Contreras surely got his butt spanked in public.    That often happens when you tell more than you know or can prove. You would think being made a joke in public would be a warning but these folks are awfully slow and sometimes have to be kicked in the a** twice before they REMEMBER.

[DR ANATIDAE]

Randall Flagg Wrote:Contreras Spanked Link:
"Oregon officials are also obligated under the settlement agreement to refrain from characterizing KWU as a diploma mill. The attorney General's office also agreed to provide ODA personnel with a training session on defamation law."
--Portland Business Journal  2004
I know it's a little old but Contreras surely got his butt spanked in public.    That often happens when you tell more than you know or can prove.  You would think being made a joke in public would be a warning but these folks are awfully slow and sometimes have to be kicked in the a** twice before they REMEMBER.

In spite of a good spanking and severe reprimands from his boss, if you look at Wikipedia and - private/unaccredited universities - they are still all 'mills' - according to the Oregon 'expert'. With such nonsense Wikipedia is shown to be a charade and a fountain of biased misinformation.

[ham]

Quote:With such nonsense Wikipedia is shown to be a charade and a fountain of biased misinformation.

Wikipedia made another dream of most keyboard sociopaths and trailer-park academics come true.
How many real, well-established, big ticket, egg-headed academics can claim to have authored one entry in a established encyclopaedia (EG Britannica, Stanford etc )?
1 in 1000?
Yet every buffoon can now start a page on wikipedia and add precious lines to a skinny CV.

[Herbert Spencer]

Online Encyclopedia Is A Gathering For Internet Predators

[ham]

well, no half-decent academic work ought to be permitted to use wikipedia as reference, but hell, I read even some scholars referring to it.
While wikipedia might be a starting point ( i found a few useful sources there ), whichever wikipedia lead or assertion must be verified through other, more established sources.

Fugu fish toxins are about the most powerful neurotoxins in the world...a small bite can get a strong bodybuilder in a coma in a few minutes: FACT.
On a site, this clown claimed fugu fish poisoning wasn't all that fuss and it would be enough to use a respirator and -literally- "wait for the toxin to go away"...
I discovered that idiot got that "truth" from wikipedia.
Too bad academic papers or official safety guides do not make it sound so rosey as "just waiting for the toxin to go away".

the reason of wikipedia's success is that it is free, while Britannica online charges subscription fees and other such sources require the purchase of cd roms.
But "free" comes with risks, namely that you might just be reading drivel published by some sociopath.