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Tech: Techdirt discusses one journalist’s poor opinion of Wikipedia. Al Fasoldt of the Syracuse Post-Standard excoriated wikis in a column, and later claimed the site is dangerous. Well, yes, you should take any information source with a bit of skepticism. Bias is always present in any information. Al says so himself: “The best thing about the Web is also the worst thing: Information is all over the place. You need to be careful about trusting what you read.” I agree with those statements. Caveat lector. But Al doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and, so far, refuses to change his opinion.