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The Islamic Golden Age Was Faked By Wikipedia: WTF!?

Podcast: Based Camp | Simone & Malcolm Collins · Based Camp | Simone & Malcolm Collins

Opublikowano: 2026-10-13

Join us today on Based Camp as we wallow in the crisis of reality laid bare by yet another means by which people propagate fake historical claims: Inserting plausible claims “backed” by often-hard-to-check-but-proper-seeming citations into Wikipedia entries long enough for journalists, scholars, and museum curators to pick them up and essentially thread them in to the blockchain of reality. We examine how a single Wikipedia editor known as Jagged_85 inserted thousands of fabricated claims about Islamic inventions into the historical record (those edits spread into books, museum sites, and scholarly work through lazy sourcing and circular citations). <p...