Policing orthodoxy on Wikipedia: Skeptics in action?
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چکیده
Wikipedia has been accused of being biased against challengers to scientific orthodoxy due efforts by editors having affinities with the Skeptics movement. Examination Wikipedia, including entries on fluoridation, origin AIDS and vaccination, reveals several characteristics typical a sensibility, definition scepticism, lists deviant ideas, derogatory labelling heterodox viewpoints, categories established without reference reliable sources.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JCOM, journal of science communication
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1824-2049']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/2.20020209