User:VanishedUser 23asdsalkaka/Verifiability

Some Wikipedian's beliefs that being verifiable is somehow more important than being the truth is dangerous. I am not the only one who believes this about "facts". Facts that are sourced and presented in Wikipedia but that are not true are dangerous because they present themselves (since they are referenced) as the truth. This perpetuates things that are wrong, not only because of the proliferation of that information through "mirror-sites", but through other websites that use Wikipedia for THEIR sources, and just through the people who look here and then go tell their friends. Most importantly it makes Wikipedia unreliable to professors, teachers, the media, professionals/experts, and the general public. Wikipedia has a bad reputation not for having unsourced material, its reputation stems from just plain WRONG material.


 * In science, any compromise between a correct statement and a wrong statement is a wrong statement. user:Stephan Schulz; pulled from User talk:JzG
 * I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version. Colonel Oliver North
 * A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. Thomas Paine
 * Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. Thomas Jefferson
 * An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. James Michener
 * The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel Boorstin
 * Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. A.E. Housman
 * The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about
 * The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. Elbert Hubbard
 * The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. Albert Camus
 * Truthiness is 'What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true.' It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality. Stephen Colbert
 * Per a blog, "William Faulkner wryly commented, 'Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.'" a blogger, about William Faulkner
 * Thinking is dangerous here, especially for non-thinkers! - Lars Gustafsson saw a big signboard warning swimmers of perilous water currents in a lake on the fringe of then East Berlin, and just changed out the verb.