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Originally Posted by psili
Just to refute your "wiki" quote: There was a study by Nature that checked Wikipedia articles against Britannica's articles and there wasn't a huge difference in discrepancy of information. Actually, I was surprised to see how well Wikipedia rated against the Britannica entries on same / similar topics.
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Just as there are studies that refute the Nature one. There will be some mistakes in both but what i see as the biggest grievance towards wikki is it isn't really a fact-checking mechanism so much as a voting mechanism. If someone reads an entry, unless something sounds blatantly false, he or she will likely accept what it says. If there is disagreement about the facts, an edit war could break out until a consensus view develops.
This all neither here nor there, I was just amused at this posters ramble about uneducated americans should read more and then says to read wiki, it gave me a chuckle.
But back on topic, the reason we want to own guns? Did you ever see Red Dawn? WOLVERINES!