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...editorial response, the difference between Wikipedia errors and errors in the mainstream press is their relative ease in correction. As Bruce Schneider said, the interesting thing about systems isn’t how they perform when they’re working, but how they perform when they fail. When newspapers fail, they perform very badly. When Wikipedia fails, it fails pretty well...
...university president—a fault of excess, perhaps, but not a fault that should have cost Summers his job. Too often, he was viewed under a microscope by a Faculty which appeared to look for, if not outright hope for, Summers, and his vision for accelerated change, to fail...
...said that while administrators worry that Muslims might “become dangerous,” they fail to respond adequately to allegations of hate speech towards Muslim students...
...physicians are treating them like children. Even the most obscure medical studies are easily accessible. Forget Dr. Spock. I can peruse Danish researchers' findings on the connection between bed wetting and the color blue or whether being exposed to Donald Trump in utero makes my daughter more likely to fail the third grade...
...journalists. Living and working in the most competitive media market on the planet, they feverishly search each week for fresh color on the London scene, divine earth-shattering significance from what might seem unimportant trifles, discover and celebrate new big beasts in the political jungle. And when events inconveniently fail to match their predictions, they dust themselves off and go at it again. So it was last week, which started with a widespread assumption that Tony Blair, Prime Minister since 1997, was facing a crisis. The House of Commons was to vote on two measures, both of which...