Its things like this that really make me glad I went to school during the early pioneering days of the net. When you could still find teachers and professors that assumed your paper was written based on hard work and research time put in at the library with scholarly journals and those encyclopedia things. Yes I only graduated a few years ago but teachers were still naive enough not to think we were propositioning complete strangers on the internet for questionably factual knowledge.
I personally blame wikipedia for this. Teachers began to really catch on as soon as the internet decided to fuck with academia's obsession with encyclopedias. The idea that something that calls itself an encyclopedia could be edited or written by anyone and possibly contain false information was just too much for educators to handle. You've got to understand that the generation of teachers that taught us were raised on the idea that an encyclopedias word was as good as gospel. Threatening the credibility of encyclopedias was a horrible decision and todays students today are paying for it. Thanks alot, wikipedia.
