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KC
09-17-2012, 12:31 PM
A Podcast I listen to pretty regularly just devoted an episode to this new website called [/URL][U]Truth Market (http://TruthMarket). The idea is to put Market forces to work and give people incentives to start up campaigns based on the truth. If you are able to falsify a claim, you make money, or, if you can prove a claim to be accurate, your campaign wins money. In order to give an answer there is a fee, so people have an incentive to post only when they can point to verifiable data that shows a claim to be accurate.

There is no moderation of what kinds of claims are allowed to be posted, the only requirement is that the claim is falsifiable ("God does/does not exist," for example, wouldn't be allowed).

What do you guys think? My only worry is about the inherent biases of the moderators, however the founder on this podcast noted that there were claims on the website over both sides of the birther (Obama birth certificate) issue and neither has been shown to be false yet, so my feeling is that there is strong threshold for what counts as falsification.

IGetItAlready
09-17-2012, 01:04 PM
It's a nice idea but having just created an account and spent some time on the sight I don't think it's going anywhere.


http://www.truthmarket.com/campaign-comments/8

That's a link to a page from the site on which the site owner/operator makes an interesting statement regarding climate change.

Plus it costs $75 just to start a campaign and in the two campaigns that have met their sponsorship goal and gone live, one costs $250 to challenge and the other $500.

Based on the obvious leanings of the site and it's owner, I'm calling this one some rich guy's attempt to validate his own opinions. :wink20:

KC
09-17-2012, 01:07 PM
It's a nice idea but having just created an account and spent some time on the sight I don't think it's going anywhere.


http://www.truthmarket.com/campaign-comments/8

That's a link to a page from the site on which the site owner/operator makes an interesting statement regarding climate change.

Plus it costs $75 just to start a campaign and in the two campaigns that have met their sponsorship goal and gone live, one costs $250 to challenge and the other $500.

Based on the obvious leanings of the site and it's owner, I'm calling this one some rich guy's attempt to validate his own opinions. :wink20:

Hmm nice find. Roth claimed on the Podcast (which certainly has a left wing bias) that it is not his role to personally validate any of the claims made on the site, but all the same, his choice of who to hire could make or break the site's credibility.