In Covering Intelligent Design, Wikipedia Engages in "Information Sabotage"

Back in March, I discussed an article in PLOS ONE that protested against "quote mining" and other sloppiness in what it called "creationist texts." The article itself, however, sloppily misquoted a piece that Logan Gage and I co-wrote in response to Francis Collins. Now a new article in PLOS ONE, "Content Volatility of Scientific Topics in Wikipedia: A Cautionary Tale," has been published that is equally blind to its own biases.

The article concerns Wikipedia, and it offers the uninteresting...