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The Select

The Select is a novel written by American author and medical doctor F. Paul Wilson. It was first published in England in 1993 as The Foundation under Wilson's pen name Colin Andrews. In the following year, it was released in the US as by F. Paul Wilson. The book is a suspense thriller in the style of Robin Cook about a student named Quinn Cleary who discovers that her fellow students are being brainwashed in a prestigious medical school named the Ingraham. Campus Security personnel are officially sanctioned, mainly by means of illegal electronic surveillance, to pinpoint potential troublemakers and to assist in neutralizing them. The top administrators are not averse to using extreme countermeasures to protect their sacred charter.

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The Select is a novel written by American author and medical doctor F. Paul Wilson. It was first published in England in 1993 as The Foundation under Wilson's pen name Colin Andrews. In the following year, it was released in the US as by F. Paul Wilson. The book is a suspense thriller in the style of Robin Cook about a student named Quinn Cleary who discovers that her fellow students are being brainwashed in a prestigious medical school named the Ingraham. Campus Security personnel are officially sanctioned, mainly by means of illegal electronic surveillance, to pinpoint potential troublemakers and to assist in neutralizing them. The top administrators are not averse to using extreme countermeasures to protect their sacred charter.

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  1. publication date: 1993 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "1993". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357021059

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