Sumitra refers to Wikipedia. Social scientists should be aware of the
"openness" of this so-called encyclopedia. I keep finding factual
errors and editorialised histories in my students' papers for which
they gave W. as the source. My latest course outline requires
corroborating evidence to accompany references to Wikipedia entries.
The widespread lack of W's reliability was, again, illustrated a few
days ago when U.S. Congressional staff was found to have changed
biographies of their political masters. Disinformation for the
masses (or whatever Orwell called it)?
Jesse Vorst