Melanie Swan, an investment adviser in Silicon Valley, is one of the citizen scientists questioning the traditional approach.

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Before excoriating me for my own cynicism, I would defend by pointing out that the GOP has earned my questioning approach given the track record they have built in taking so many cynical steps that do the public harm for their own advancement.

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And the open internet proponents looked at such approach with disdain, questioning its technological purity compared to the open standard.

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Her approach to questioning was to fire questions at her folks one after the other like verbal machine gun bullets.

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