[LINK] the failing of wikipedia

[Robert Hart]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 12:32 +1000, Deus Ex Machina wrote:
> both left wing and right wing rhetoric depend on belief which means they
> are not empirically testable. the right doesnt have a monopoly on beleif
> and if anything the collape of the far left has boosted the empirical
> claims of the right.

Unfortunately, that argument applies equally to any political rhetoric -
left, right, centre, wet, dry, etc ad infinitum.

The rule applies also the the empirical claims of the right that are,
from time to time, peddled on this list.

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