Is Wikipedia promoting global warming hysteria?

Noel Sheppard
9 Jul 2008

Two weeks ago, a parent-teacher council blamed the online research source Wikipedia for falling test scores in Scotland.

On Tuesday, Canadian columnist Lawrence Solomon blamed Wikipedia for helping to spread global warming hysteria around the world.

The connection? Oftentimes "inaccurate or deliberately misleading information" published by Wikipedia is taken as fact by unsuspecting readers.

In the case of climate change, such inaccurate or deliberately misleading information acts to solidify the myth being espoused by Nobel Laureate Al Gore as millions of people across the globe believe Wikipedia is a purely factual resource.

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edward buckner
26 Jul 2008, 10:34

Hi - I have been following

Hi - I have been following the GW story here with interest.  I am a long-serving editor on Wikipedia who now has a concern about the less-than-neutral way that Wikipedia is handling certain subjects.

I have started a wiki called The Wikipedia Point of View where sceptics are invited to contribute articles that contrast genuinely sceptical view of the subject, in the context of the Wikipedia view of the subject.  Articles should conform to Wikipedia-like standards of neutrality. 

 I have started an article on Global Warming here.  Sceptics are invited to register on the wiki and make contributions. Note, again, that articles should conform to standard neutrality requirements, i.e. reliable sources and so on.

 I would very much like to reproduce Lawrence's article if that would be possible.

 

Best

 

Ed B