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Sanger Banned by Wikipedia: Diagnosing a Disease
8+ hour, 13+ min ago (435+ words) So what went wrong with Wikipedia? Let Harvard help explain: Sometimes inaccurate information is posted to Wikipedia on purpose, as a hoax. In some well-documented cases, this inaccurate information continues to spread when people take it from Wikipedia and use…...
On ID, Wikipedia Hedges, While Grokipedia Tells (Whoa!) the Truth
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (590+ words) All encyclopedias have their biases but Wikipedia, consulted by many millions who deserve better — some of whom should know better — is surely legendary. But little engagement with evidence. Design of the universe can’t be the only topic on which Wikipedia…...
Cry Us a River: AI Chatbots May Be Killing Wikipedia
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (310+ words) It’s not clear how this will impact a commonly heard criticism of Wikipedia — bias, very much including the subject of intelligent design. However, at Gizmodo, Bruce Gil reports that “AI Is Killing Wikipedia’s Human Traffic”: In a blog post published…...