Despite being exposed to rampant, highly organized and well-financed professional trolling by government departments, corporations and public relations firms, many will repeated cite the website as the final work on what constitutes a ‘consensus’ on any profile issue or world event. Wikipedia itself boasts of the reliability of its highly flawed user-generated crowdsourced editing model, which allows for unnamed, anonymous figures (likely from governments, think tanks and corporations) to control the editorial oversight of most of its pages relating to war, politics… and now pandemics.

New Zealand’s Dr. Sam Bailey explains why Wikipedia’s official COVID-19 pages, regarded as the gold standard on science and medicine by Google, YouTube, Facebook and others who dutifully promulgate Wikipedia pages on all of their COVID related searches – is in fact fatally flawed, containing few if any relevant primary scientific research links among its categorical claims about the disease. Watch: