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Whooo boy! Are my ears ringing, feet stinging, brain singing, from the last three comments that came over the transom.

The first one, by Dr. David Hill, the Chief Executive of the World Innovation Foundation Charity, a comment on my posting entitled Guardian smears Wikipedia, Wikipedians, Peer Production, takes Wikipedia to task for not including an article on his charity. If what he says is true, it *does* sound small-minded, but I betcha those who have been there done that have their own interpretation of this incident. Not that Wikipedia doesn't have problems. But I am still slack-jaw amazed that it has worked as well as it has. Is Dr. David Hill's org listed in Britannica?

The next two, on this article, are (IMHO) stupid slams of The Precautionary Principle by "Russell." In one of his more printable comments, he writes, "Okay, but more accurately, the 'precautionary principle' says 'I got mine, I'm comfortable, screw you if you want yours.'" Really? Does Russell stop when the light turns red? If so, he's probably applying the Precautionary Principle. When he dices an onion, does he use a cutting board or does he hold the onion in his hand while cutting it? I don't know, but my guess is that he applies the Precautionary Principle and uses a cutting board.

I like Russell, but I came real close to deleting his comments; the reason I didn't was that I applied the Precautionary Principle against the outside chance that he might have been saying something of value that I just didn't understand.

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