Wikipedia Throws Günter Bechly Down the Orwellian Memory Hole

Episode 1072 November 27, 2017 00:21:49
Wikipedia Throws Günter Bechly Down the Orwellian Memory Hole
Intelligent Design the Future
Wikipedia Throws Günter Bechly Down the Orwellian Memory Hole

Nov 27 2017 | 00:21:49

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID The Future, Robert Crowther talks with paleontologist Dr. Günter Bechly about his entry on Wikipedia which was created in 2012 and suspiciously disappeared in 2015 when he started supporting Intelligent Design. An eminent paleontologist, Bechly was curator of the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany and had numerous species as well as even a family named after him, a high honor in the field. Crowther and Bechly go over the specious reasons given by Wikipedia for Bechly’s deletion, revealing the ideological and authoritarian nature of some the editors at Wikipedia.

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