Socially controversial science topics on Wikipedia draw edit wars
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/socially-controversial-science-topics-on-wikipedia-draw-edit-wars/
The accuracy of what you see depends on whether people are happy
about a topic ... Likens might be expected to be satisfied with
seeing his findings become widely accepted and eventually serve
as the basis for national policy. But any satisfaction he felt
almost certainly took a hit because he made a terrible mistake:
he tried to make sure the Wikipedia entry on acid rain was
accurate. In a new paper, Likens says "we noticed that some
corrections we or others made on the acid rain article had been
changed by major edits to introduce (or re-introduce) balderdash
and factual errors into the content."
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