{"id":2215,"date":"2009-12-22T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2009-12-22T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T14:45:08","slug":"wikipedia-shows-its-biggest-innate-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/22\/wikipedia-shows-its-biggest-innate-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia shows its biggest innate weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/jamesdelingpole\/100020515\/climategate-the-corruption-of-wikipedia\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Delingpole<\/a> shows the built-in bias of the Wikipedia editing team presents a very restrictive view of AGW and the CRU hacking\/leak:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you want to know the truth about Climategate, definitely don\u2019t use Wikipedia. \u201cClimatic Research Unit e-mail controversy\u201d, is its preferred, mealy-mouthed euphemism to describe the greatest scientific scandal of the modern age. Not that you\u2019d ever guess it was a scandal from  the accompanying article. It reads more like a damage-limitation press release put out by concerned friends and sympathisers of the lying, cheating, data-rigging scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Which funnily enough, is pretty much what it is. Even Wikipedia\u2019s own moderators acknowledge that the entry has been hijacked, as this commentary by an \u201cuninvolved editor\u201d makes clear.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this naked bias and corruption has infected the supposedly neutral Wikipedia\u2019s entire coverage of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory. And much of this, as Lawrence Solomon reports in the National Post, is the work of one man, a Cambridge-based scientist and Green Party activist named William Connolley.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wikipedia is a useful resource, but (as with the mainstream media) you have to take into account the built-in bias both on how issues are covered, but even the issues that are allowed to be presented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Delingpole shows the built-in bias of the Wikipedia editing team presents a very restrictive view of AGW and the CRU hacking\/leak: If you want to know the truth about Climategate, definitely don\u2019t use Wikipedia. \u201cClimatic Research Unit e-mail controversy\u201d, is its preferred, mealy-mouthed euphemism to describe the greatest scientific scandal of the modern age. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,28,53,15],"tags":[245,240,39,444],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-media","category-politics","category-technology","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-zJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}