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His research is on [[integrable systems]], [[gauge theory]] and [[random matrices]]. He was the 2006 recipient of the [https://www.cap.ca/awards/press/2006-harnad.html CAP-CRM prize] in theoretical and mathematical physics. |
His research is on [[integrable systems]], [[gauge theory]] and [[random matrices]]. He was the 2006 recipient of the [https://www.cap.ca/awards/press/2006-harnad.html CAP-CRM prize] in theoretical and mathematical physics. |
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Professor Harnad (who was blocked by Wikipedia) summarized his negative view about Wikipedia this way: |
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Wikipedia, on the contrary, is the enshrinement of contempt for learning, knowledge and expertise. It is, for many, a diversionary hobby to which they are prepared to devote a great portion of their time, as others do to computer based video games. Unfortunately, it has led also to an inner cult, shrouded in anonymity, with structures and processes of self-regulation that are woefully inadequate. Many of these tools and procedures are reminiscent, in parody, of those of the Inquisition: secret courts, an inner “elite” arbitrarily empowered to censor and exclude all those perceived as a threat to the adopted conventions of the cult; denunciations, character assassination, excommunication. An arbitrarily concocted “rulebook” and language rife with self-referential sanctimoniousness give a superficial illusion of order and good sense, but no such thing exists in practice. |
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It is truly a “Tyranny of the Ignorant”. |
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[http://knol.google.com/k/corruption-of-wikipedia-http-wikicensored-info# See] for details. |
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== External links == |
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Revision as of 14:04, 3 January 2012
John Harnad (b. Hernád János, Budapest) is a Hungarian-born mathematical physicist. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at the University of Oxford (D.Phil. 1972). He is currently Director of the Mathematical Physics group at the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), a national research centre in mathematics at the Université de Montréal and Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University.
His research is on integrable systems, gauge theory and random matrices. He was the 2006 recipient of the CAP-CRM prize in theoretical and mathematical physics.
Professor Harnad (who was blocked by Wikipedia) summarized his negative view about Wikipedia this way:
Wikipedia, on the contrary, is the enshrinement of contempt for learning, knowledge and expertise. It is, for many, a diversionary hobby to which they are prepared to devote a great portion of their time, as others do to computer based video games. Unfortunately, it has led also to an inner cult, shrouded in anonymity, with structures and processes of self-regulation that are woefully inadequate. Many of these tools and procedures are reminiscent, in parody, of those of the Inquisition: secret courts, an inner “elite” arbitrarily empowered to censor and exclude all those perceived as a threat to the adopted conventions of the cult; denunciations, character assassination, excommunication. An arbitrarily concocted “rulebook” and language rife with self-referential sanctimoniousness give a superficial illusion of order and good sense, but no such thing exists in practice.
It is truly a “Tyranny of the Ignorant”.
See for details.
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