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Stephen Downes

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We hear almost every day about how online sources - such as, say, Wikipedia - are inaccurate. My objection throughout has been that print sources are no more reliable. Here's a case where student Matthew LaClair approached print materials with the sort of scepticism usually reserved for online sources. "I just realized from my own knowledge that some of this stuff in the book is just plain wrong," said LaClair. As PEN Newswire reports, "legal scholars and top scientists find the teen's criticism of the textbook to be well-founded."

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