Wikipedia's Tendency to Enshrine Untruths

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The above link appears to be broken. I think it should have been; http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/05/how-a-raccoon-became-an-aardvark.html

From a different angle, here's another article noting problems with Wikipedia:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27586356
Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, contains errors in nine out of 10 of its health entries, and should be treated with caution, a study has said.

Scientists in the US compared entries about conditions such as heart disease, lung cancer, depression and diabetes with peer-reviewed medical research.

They said most articles in Wikipedia contained "many errors".
 
Yes. Though to be fair that happens in almost all collections of "knowledge." It even demonstrably happens among people - period.
 
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