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by BrainVirus 1316 days ago
Wikipedia is one of the worst things that was ever launched on the web. Many people say that it's reliable, except in cases of controversy. That's a spin. A more honest way of describing it is that it's a system designed to accumulate trust by providing people with trivial information and then spectacularly fail them when the information is critically important for some society-wide issue. The failures aren't unfortunate mishaps, they are inevitable by design.
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I'd say it's foolish to turn to an encyclopedia, which by definition is merely meant to impart knowledge not much deeper than introductory, for information of critical importance.