Myths No Match for Wikipedia, Despite Wikipedia (comic)

Follow up on the previous one in this installment. Ever heard something that was just too juicy to not be true? You don’t have to let it lie there, facts be damned, just add it to Wikipedia and see if it sticks.

Before you know it you’ll be an expert in whichever field of imaginary expertise you set out to conquer.

This cartoon deals with a pattern of willful misinformation.

This is in reference to yesterday’s comic How the Scan-Tron Actually Got Its Name.

40-wikipedia-lies

Author: Brian White

Brian first began peddling his humorous wares with a series of Xerox printed books in fifth grade. Since then he's published over two thousand satire and humor articles, as well as eight stage plays, a 13-episode cable sitcom and three (terrible) screenplays. He is a freelance writer by trade and an expert in the field of viral entertainment marketing. He is the author of many of the biggest hoaxes of recent years, a shameful accomplishment in which he takes exceptional pride.

1 thought on “Myths No Match for Wikipedia, Despite Wikipedia (comic)

  1. Ha! Funny and so true. I once caught my then middle-school-aged son answering questions about physics and the universe on Yahoo! Answers. He eventually got an email telling him to stop or he’d be blocked from the site because he was giving bad information. In his defense though, he wasn’t trying to be misleading or mean, he simply thought he knew what he was talking about.

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