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[–] SkzChaotic 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I encourage everyone to look up the sources for controversial stuff on Wikipedia, just two days ago I was looking into a guy named Tim Ball and wiki is claiming on the "controversy" section that he's not a climatologist but a geographer and that he doesn't have 20+ years of experience but only 8. I look up the source on that claim and it's from a socialist news site and the source for that article is a ... fucking blogspot... that doesn't even mention anything about a degree in geography but only contests his claimed experience (28 years) and brings it down to about 23. THAT'S IT. A FUCKING BLOGSPOT.
Of course why would Wikipedia contest his degree / lie about Tim Ball? Well folks, Mr Tim Ball is a man-made climate change denier!
This isn't the first time I've found stuff like this, I looked into a "holocaust-denying myths" debunking article and the citations were full of random ass sites nobody has ever heard of that those sites in return don't source anything on their own end, I've even seen broken links and domains that went down.
Another one that comes to mind is Hans-Ulrich Rudel, the best motherfucking pilot that ever lived. On his Wiki page it says he only damaged battleship Marat whereas in his memoirs he says they came back later and dealt the final blow, sinking the ship. He and the Luftwaffe would know better me thinks, considering he got handed a fucking unique medal for his achievements and everyone was talking about it at the time, I've even read the same thing in Otto Skorzeny's memoirs.
tl;dr: stay away from Wikipedia, only use it for looking up neutral subjects, dates, uncontested information etc.