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2021-07-22 -Great Cultural Revolution

Wikipedia's Own Co-Founder Warns His Site Is Compromised by Leftists and Can't Be Trusted

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-22 03:44|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Nonsense. The technical articles are OK - if, sometimes, not up to date - knowledge does develop. The opinion articles always were garbage.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-22 08:10|| 2021-07-22 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 it depends on the subject, g(r)omgoru. I remember a major brouhaha some year back because a small group of editors was erasing and deceitfully editing articles on global warming. After some years of this nonsense a bunch of people were fired for it. Articles around Israel and Jewish history, politics and politicians — any politicized or controversial subject, really — generally finds itself being repeatedly edited to shape reader opinion.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-22 08:29|| 2021-07-22 08:29|| Front Page Top

#3 ^AGW is opinion.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-22 08:32|| 2021-07-22 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 It shouldn’t be — it’s been a hot research field for two decades, and data has been accumulating.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-22 08:36|| 2021-07-22 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh, so suddenly you don't believe in the Holy Blessed Peer Review?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-07-22 08:37|| 2021-07-22 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 ^^Anyways, you always have to use judgement - even in peer-reviewed (Sturgeon's Law).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-22 08:39|| 2021-07-22 08:39|| Front Page Top

#7 In a corrupt system Sturgeon's Law's 10% is woefully optimistic.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-07-22 08:41|| 2021-07-22 08:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, so suddenly you don't believe in the Holy Blessed Peer Review?

I believe in coherence of data from multiple sources. As to the peer-review: sure 90% of peer-reviewed articles are garbage. But 99.9999% of not peer-reviewed "scientific" articles are garbage.
Especially when it comes from people who admit to ideological bias.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-22 08:53|| 2021-07-22 08:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Not a 'single source' yapping expert. At least that is to your credit.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-22 09:14|| 2021-07-22 09:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Not a 'single source' yapping expert.

Good point. Who does Fauxi believe besides himself?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-07-22 09:33|| 2021-07-22 09:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Fauxi followers appear to be dwindling in numbers.

Posted by Ebbavirt Peacock8582 2021-07-22 09:41|| 2021-07-22 09:41|| Front Page Top

#12 g(r)om, think about this: if the guy who contracted the creation of the virus was an ecological nut, there's a lot of crossover between the people who made the virus, the people who told the actual lies about treating the virus, and the ones who do the global warming hoax to deindustrialize the west.

(And back on the road again...)

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-07-22 12:24|| 2021-07-22 12:24|| Front Page Top

#13

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-07-22 12:26|| 2021-07-22 12:26|| Front Page Top

#14 Thing, drop Aristotelian logic. Just because Fauci is an a$$hole - and I knew that about him since the 90es - doesn't mean that masks don't work, HCQ does*, and mRNA vaccine is genetic engineering.

*You really think all these poor countries wouldn't use something cheap that works to appease Fauci?
p.s. China is a poor country, and I'm sure they did experiments on Uighurs/political prisoners with HCQ, Invectowhatever etc..., and wouldn't use anything that worked?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-22 12:42|| 2021-07-22 12:42|| Front Page Top

#15 Ref 14: No to be argumentative, but wat make u an authority on ars.....

Oh wait !

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-22 13:18|| 2021-07-22 13:18|| Front Page Top

#16 ^Remembered how long I know you?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-22 13:37|| 2021-07-22 13:37|| Front Page Top

#17 Everyone preppin' for zombies.

Ends up being mummies.

Mummie may I? Mummie may I?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-22 13:41|| 2021-07-22 13:41|| Front Page Top

#18 Democrats: Math is opinion.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-22 14:08|| 2021-07-22 14:08|| Front Page Top

#19 It's just that there is a lot of knowledge and history for the leftists to get out there and corrupt, even if they stay on it 24/7, a million 'persons' at a time.

I go to to wikipedia for example for standard facts, which no one would want to change, like WTF are gravitons, or the chronology of the Ummayad caliphate, which will surely be zealously documented there.

As for the most important stuff, we've already had our education in the darkest, shittiest reality of the world around us, gentlemen. If it's opinions you want, you won't go to wikipedia that's a given.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-07-22 14:28|| 2021-07-22 14:28|| Front Page Top

#20 Wikipedia was good for some things non-political. The problem is that everything has become politicized in the political, cultural and information wars currently going on in this country.

No doubt Biden's entry was sanitized by someone; he is incapable of doing it at this stage--maybe Mr. Plaigerism never was capable at any time.

Posted by Thraigum Anguth7272 2021-07-22 17:03|| 2021-07-22 17:03|| Front Page Top

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