I doubt many of the ‘facts’ they provide are provably wrong but a number of RationalWiki articles struck me as very tendentious and one-sided and as such portraying a subject matter in a way that leads to wrong conclusions unless one gathers additional information.
E.g. from the RW article on SA: “He is highly critical of communism, [...] Much as with neoreaction, this hasn’t stopped him from writing long book reports and getting very interested, for example, in the details of central planning in the USSR.”. Rhetorics like ‘Much as with neoreaction [...]’ don’t belong in a wiki, much less one that names itself RationalWiki.
I doubt many of the ‘facts’ they provide are provably wrong but a number of RationalWiki articles struck me as very tendentious and one-sided and as such portraying a subject matter in a way that leads to wrong conclusions unless one gathers additional information.
E.g. from the RW article on SA: “He is highly critical of communism, [...] Much as with neoreaction, this hasn’t stopped him from writing long book reports and getting very interested, for example, in the details of central planning in the USSR.”. Rhetorics like ‘Much as with neoreaction [...]’ don’t belong in a wiki, much less one that names itself RationalWiki.