Hang on, right.
you can't be arsed trawling through Wikileaks? Information placed on the internet by Assange*, to which no-one could possibly verify the authenticity of, which magically might show Assange is at risk of some CIA thing, and you can't see the epic fucking flaw in that?

Jesus wept. I need to stop wasting effort writing actual proper peer reviewed scientific papers and just start publishing on the web I can cure cancer and make new organs from scratch. As if I say it that's apparently enough to make it true.

*I appreciate not actually directly by him, but the point is the same
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 22 Aug 2012, 10:53, 1 reply)

That'd make you a post-normal scientist.
Bonus points for using your academic standing to discredit anyone who dares to question your methods, or even just ask for the raw data.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 1:20, closed)

Woodside, I gave them the raw data.
in links up there. The actual facts, the court transcripts, as opposed to half baked persecution complexes. No-one cares about what's actually true.

The academic comment is a completely valid point. "because someone on the internet says so" has become the currency of truth. Wikipedia is, apparently, a valid reference resource in science (at least according to some of my younger and more gullible students). The press leap on things pre-peer review. It's a fucking shambles.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 10:35, closed)