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Despite being promoted as an encyclopedia "anyone can edit", the ability to edit controversial pages is sometimes restricted because of "edit wars" or vandalism. [13] To address criticism about restricting access while minimizing malicious editing of those pages, Wikipedia has also tried measures such as "pending changes protection" which allows open editing of contentious articles, with the ...
Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in the publication of professional scientific research. A Lancet review on Handling of Scientific Misconduct in Scandinavian countries gave examples of policy definitions. In Denmark, scientific misconduct is defined as "intention [al ...
Scientific controversy. Sustained scientific debate, sometimes scientific controversy[1] or persistent disagreement, [2] is any a substantial disagreement among scientists. A scientific controversy may involve issues such as the interpretation of data, which ideas are most supported by evidence, and which ideas are most worth pursuing.
Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu analyzed 2012 era Wikipedia articles on U.S. politics, going back a decade, and wrote a study [95] arguing the more contributors there were to an article, the less biased the article would be, and that – based on a study of frequent collocations – fewer articles "leaned Democrat" than was the case in Wikipedia ...
See also: Wikipedia:Neutral point of viewand Wikipedia:Don't teach the controversy. An article about a controversial person, issue, group or organization should start with facts: "According to the FBI, the XYZ faction had over 1,000 active members in 1982.[1]" Next, the article should accurately describe their views, no matter how misguided or ...
The He Jiankui affair is a scientific and bioethical controversy concerning the use of genome editing following its first use on humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who edited the genomes of human embryos in 2018. [1][2] He became widely known on 26 November 2018 [3] after he announced that he had created the first human genetically edited ...
A 2017 study found evidence that Wikipedia's popularity as the most popular general information source has influenced how everyone talks and writes about science. [2][3] UNESCO reported in 2017 that Wikipedia is a popular source of science information because of its high ranking in search engines. [4] A 2018 study examined the way that ...
Personificationof "Science" in front of the Boston Public Library. Criticism of scienceaddresses problems within sciencein order to improve science as a whole and its role in society. Criticisms come from philosophy, from social movements like feminism, and from within science itself. The emerging field of metascienceseeks to increase the ...