kahan recentism i just reverted an edit by vgy ujm for two reasons first the relevant article was only published days ago and so it is too recent for the rest of the academic community to have chewed it over and responded in any way the articles in wikipedia are not random newsfeeds of the latest events in each topic but are encyclopedic summaries based mainly on secondary sources that give a balanced overview of their subject primary research sources published in the last few days rarely make an article and should never be used at the end of a section implying that they may represent the 'last word' on a subtopic secondly the abstract of the referenced paper actually says that by setting experimental subjects science comprehension tests that it has detected the contamination of the science communication environment with forms of cultural status competition this is a long way from the much more even handed coverage that vgy ujm gave it by saying that global warming skeptics are as familiar with the relevant science as their opponents they simply arrive at different conclusions as if this gives their antiscience views equal validity i think we need to give things time and if necessary add a more balanced view of this research if in time it turns out to be notable