[LINK] CLimater scientist sues for defamation

[tomk]

On 26/10/2012 1:11 a.m., stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> Rachel writes,
>
>> We live in a very weird age, where information gets mixed up with
>> knowledge, where fact is subservient to opinion and where the experts
>> who try to level the balance are mercilessly disparaged by cowards ..
>> I expect that will shortly lead to the breaking down of the systems
>> that make science useful and information dependable.....
>
> Yes, indeed. What is happening to Chaucer's cultural heritage?
>
> "Of studie took he most cure and most hede. Noght o word spak he more
> than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and
> quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche,
> And gladly wolde he lerne.."  Geoffrey Chaucer, (1385 AD).
>
>
Umm, I think it's called the Internet, where it is difficult to channel 
the official word with a "short and quik and hy sentence" that would be 
Twitter... (on a good day).

On the Internet, unlike the Town Criers midday and seven pm "here yee's 
" the kids and bullies echo the town criers news with as many words as 
they can resulting in words lacking reverence and having very little forme.

TomK