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cmv: encyclopedias in the information age are one of the worst sources of information available to us. Wikipedia is far more accurate.

I recently heard a psychiatrist make this claim and after mulling it about for a while I decided he was right. If there's a new discovery or a changed detail that requires the most minor of updates, the nerds over at Wikipedia will have the appropriate pages updated in nanoseconds with sources to match. 

Meanwhile you need to wait for the next encyclopedia set for that update, and there could be a mistake in that set too, which can't get fixed until the NEXT edition. Plus those bitches costs hundreds of dollars. Who has the money to update it EVERY cycle?

 And if you need to find something hyper specific about a certain radiology tech procedure in the encyclopedia? Good fucking luck, kid. You'll maybe find one article about radiology in the 17,000 articles that are supposed to cover all the topics in the *world*. You'll flip to "radio-" section and find "radio broadband network" and "radioscope" with nothing inbetween. Figures, that's just your luck, isn't it?

Beyond that, most people have the encyclopedia set circa 1600 sitting on their bookshelves collecting dust. You open that bitch up and it says "our solar system is geocentric, here's 52 reasons Galileo is a dumbass:" in old printingpress lettering. 

"B-B-BUT DUDE! There's trolls that change wiki pages!" No they don't, go on Wikipedia and make an account. Try and change something. It either won't work because your account hasn't been established since before the dawn of the internet and you're not trusted, or it'll be changed back in half an attosecond and you'll catch a seven trillion year ban that you can't appeal. 

Wikipedia is more accurate than encyclopedias. Hands down, no contest. Actual encyclopedia books are turbo-ass in the information era.

Deadass the price of the newest set on Amazon is 950 dollars. Who the fuck has a thousand dollars lying around and goes "oh I know! Instead of getting more pieces for my PC or putting it towards the new car part I want, I'll be the biggest fucking nerd in existence and buy an encyclopedia set! That'll definetly be a good investment :)"

Fucking nobody, that's who. And if they do, they'll pass it down Like thier greatest family heirloom until their great-great grandkids open it for the first time in the year of our lord 2096 and say "hey, string theory? This was disproven half a century ago! Why are these books so inaccurate??"
gpt
It's not one of the worst sources, it's just not the best.

Encyclopedias work regardless of government regulation or power outages.

The worst is in reading the clouds for answers.  Followed by Info wars comment section.