Wikipedia's bias - a case study: The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
Wikipedia is notoriously biased on some subjects. You can find plenty of information about Wikipedia's biases through Google. Also see this video by one of Wikipedia's founders, Larry Sanger . Plenty of other videos like this can be found . The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis Wiki page, along with several related pages, provide clear examples of this bias. One reason this bias occurs is because Wikipedia is not scientific. Wikipedia is written by its editors. These editors decide which sources should be promoted and which should be neglected according to their judgement about how reliable each source is - they discuss these issues on the associated 'talk' pages. However, these editors are frequently not scientists or academics themselves and can be strongly biased. This means they often use unreliable sources, here-say, or simply their own opinion in reaching these decisions. This is not how science works. Scientists, like most academics, are trained to evaluate the q