Evidence blocking: secrets, censorship, and cover-ups as threats to learning the truth
November 30, 2006 | Edward Tufte
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Source: Christie’s catalogue, Landmarks of Science, London, 13 December 2006
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Source: Christie’s catalogue, Landmarks of Science, London, 13 December 2006
In the third paragraph of the descriptive text, note how Galileo’s “dal movimento annua della Terra” has been replaced by “annua del sol”, the “annual movement of the Earth” replaced by the “annual movement of the Sun.”
Galileo’s only unequivocal statement in print that the Earth moves is posted at our thread: https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001dD&topic_id=1
Combatting censorship a few centuries after Galileo: Wikileaks. Their advisory board has some interesting bios.
SourceWatch is another wiki intent on making the truth public. Perhaps the ultimate watchdog is wikiscanner (also discussed on the Moderating Internet Forums thread), but wikiscanner does not yet monitor Wikileaks or SourceWatch.
Paul Graham, who introduced the idea of using Bayesian filters to filter spam, searched the web for labels used to suppress ideas. Here’s what he found.