National Institute on Drug Abuse goes after Wikipedia


Nothing like editing out controversy to make yourself look good

Another of the stories I couldn't make up if I tried.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse tried to propagandize the Wikipedia entry on the NIDA. Be sure to read the comments.

Wonkette picked up the story as well.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse, one of our nation’s most inept and evil agencies, is waging a war — a war on Wikipedia!

After some office lackey noticed that the NIDA’s entry in the online “encyclopedia” was dangerously full of well-sourced “controversy” and criticism, they erased the whole thing and put up a press release. This is called “vandalism” and Wikipedia has robots that fix such things. But the edit wars continued through the late summer, until the Politico picked up the story this afternoon. As of now, the entry reads as it did pre-NIDA involvement.

I usually go after the global warming apologists, but it applies to the drug warriors too.

Just who is silencing dissent?

And why?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Sat - January 27, 2007 at 04:34 AM  Tag


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