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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
Edit: Also, nothing on Conservapedia is reliable or scientifically peer reviewed by anyone you'd want to have reviewing anything. It has an agenda, and it's out to prove its agenda however it can. Read it as a parody or a view into another world, not for the information it contains.
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I don't think any of this information would even get accepted for review by a peer reviewed journal. Anything that presents such a clear bias is usually turned down.
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Originally Posted by abaya
No. It's a handy little reference to get anecdotal information on a topic, or a place to get you turned on to REAL research (which a Wiki is not), but I can guarantee you that you cannot get away with using any Wiki as a valid source on a college paper, or any kind of professional writing, for that matter. Don't try it.
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+1 Some professors will give you a F on the paper for trying to use a wiki as a source. If you want basic information, wikis aren't bad but they're not a place for in depth research.