User:Crcarlin

Just to let any interested parties know where I'm coming from:

I'm a scientist by profession.

More than once in the talk pages I've seen consensus find overtly, demonstrably, unquestionably false things to be true. I've seen people muzzled for things that they didn't say after consensus said they did. And I've seen my real life colleagues--world renowned subject matter experts with so much to contribute to articles--entirely turned off by the nonsense behind the scenes of Wikipedia.

Is that harsh? Well it should be. Wikipedia policies and procedures seem to work against the quality articles they try to engender. Under this regime it's not about Truth, but about who can stomp their feet in childish belligerence the longest.

As they say, "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."