On Wikipedia, politically controversial science topics vulnerable to information sabotage
Friday, August 14, 2015 - 15:00
in Mathematics & Economics
As society turns to Wikipedia for answers, students, educators, and citizens should understand its limitations when researching scientific topics that are politically charged. On entries subject to edit-wars, like acid rain, evolution, and global change, one can obtain -- within seconds -- diametrically different information on the same topic, say authors of a new report.