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Sanger’s renewed criticism helped push Wikipedia back into the spotlight this past week at a time when the nation’s most august institutions are under pressure for the messages they put into the world.

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Together and separately, they have taken a wrecking ball to our august scientific institutions that were previously considered to be the best in the world.

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That august body of cineastes, the National Society of Film Critics, said so, and, frankly, it wasn’t even close.

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Nevertheless, these claims have been a staple of news reporting for years, even by some of most august news organizations.

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Greenberger’s warning about this scenario had been endorsed by no less august a figure than former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker.

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