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FortWayne says

I've seen biased opinions when it came to politics or national events. But you can never get away from that, whoever writes will always be biased.

And lets not forget that in some circles, citing facts is considered bias in the extreme.

"Today, soft drink makers and other food companies are still hiring so-called scientific experts to back their claims that their products are harmless. On Dr. Robert Lustig's Wikipedia page, most of the studies cited there to repudiate his views were funded by Coca-Cola." (The remainder are probably funded by the corporate beneficiaries of HeritageFoundationCare.)

"Researchers found errors and inaccurate assertions in 9 out of 10 Wikipedia entries on the costliest medical conditions"

I suspect most of those inaccuracies result from industry-driven PR.

Corporate influence on science? Say it ain't so!

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cosmos-neil-tyson-lead-industry-science-denial

Relax: Corporate-funded science is sound science.

That's why I read only research funded by the tobacco, pharmaceutical, or coal industries.

Time to bump this thread, since another Wikipedia problem became evident today: pages can be too speedily deleted, particularly if they lack the support of a PR team or religious zealots defending them. It becomes a race against an unspecified deadline, to meet unspecified criteria, rather than working towards a defined goal on a reasonable schedule.