PARIS: Anti-science extremists have declared war on Wikipedia. While Wikipedia is usually a reliable source for scientific information these days, a new study has found that anti-science zealots have been conducting a terrorist campaign on controversial topics, including acid rain, evolution, and global warming, as reported by Gizmodo.
The study of anti-science actions on Wikipedia, conducted by researchers Gene Likens of the University of Connecticut and Adam Wilson of the University of Buffalo, was recently published in the journal PLOS ONE. The study examined three “politically-controversial topics,” comparing them with four that are generally considered to be non-controversial.
The findings were startling. The Wikipedia articles on acid rain, global warming, and evolution were contrasted with the Wikipedia articles on continental drift, the theory of general relativity, the standard model in physics, and heliocentrism. The edit history of the articles was examined over an almost 10-year period, according to Yahoo News.
As the Inquisitr has previously reported, global warming (or, more scientifically-accurate, climate change) is still a hot-button issue in American politics.
Even Likens wasn’t expecting the results to be as damning as anticipated.
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