Authoritative Sources In A Morally Relativistic World
Allan J. Feifer – I just picked a fight with AI [Artificial Intelligence] in posing the question: “Who judges what’s ‘credible’?” I had noticed that AI frequently cites Wikipedia in its answers, and I challenged its use. AI replied, “I use credible and well-established sources that are Peer-reviewed or scholarly and primary or officially vetted.” Hmmmmmm. Can you really trust Wikipedia?
In fact, AI freely admits that Wikipedia’s sourcing policies, while officially grounded in reliability and verifiability, often reflect the biases of its most active editors, many of whom lean towards liberal or progressive views. Wikipedia maintains a “Perennial Sources List,” which outright bans most conservative outlets as biased or unreliable, but not so liberal outlets. Continue reading
Lewis M. Andrews, Ph.D. – It was Winston Churchill who once said, “You can always count on America to do the right thing, after it has exhausted all other options.” I don’t know about all the other options, but when it comes to progressive ideology and its various manifestations — net zero environmentalism, Critical Race Theory, anticolonialism, DEI hiring programs — the country does seem to be gradually coming to its senses.