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Controversial stuff, even well documented controversial stuff, gets scrubbed from Wikipedia all the time. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporat
by throwaway2048 6y ago
Controversial stuff, even well documented controversial stuff, gets scrubbed from Wikipedia all the time.
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation
You would suppose a think tank directly responsible for such policy gems as :
• Mutually assured destruction
• The Missile Gap
• Planned Shrinkage
• tax cuts for the rich and service cuts for the poor
• Systematic Torture of enemy soldiers in the Vietnam war
• Deployment of Agent Orange
• Planned military coups of a number of third world nations
• Their employee (Daniel Ellsburg) leaked the pentagon
papers
And all manner more of cold war controversies and excesses would be better covered, but any attempt to introduce them to the article are almost immediately cleaned from that page (check the edit history).
The history of the RAND corporation is documented, but you aren't going to find that information on Wikipedia.
There is very clearly a PR organization sitting on top of that article scrubbing and sterilizing all the dirty stuff RAND has been involved in.
- andrewflnr 6y agoYou can link to edits. Why don't you show us some of the ones you're talking about?
- gerdesj 6y agoI started hunting through the edit history which is pretty involved to see if I could find some examples. I notice that MAD is mentioned in the section "RAND Corp". I gave up then!
- why_only_15 6y agoI looked at the edit history and couldn't find such edits in the last three or so years. Do you have any particular edits you're thinking of?