I suppose this is tangent to the current conversation but I felt it was worth saying.
... or in society at large, to wit:
Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries
Wikipedia: the encyclopedia can be edited anonymously by users
Genevieve Carbery Wednesday, May 6, 2009 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html
A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world.
The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre who died at the end of March.
...
[The student,] Mr Fitzgerald[,] said he placed the quote on the website as an experiment when doing research on globalisation.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html
To this, I can only ironically respond with: Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal The Scientist<http://www.the-scientist.com/templates/trackable/display/blog.jsp?type=blog&o_url=blog/display/55671&id=55671>has reported that, yes, it's true, Merck cooked up a phony, but real sounding, peer reviewed journal and published favorably looking data for its products in them. Merck paid Elsevier to publish such a tome, which neither appears in MEDLINE or has a website, according to The Scientist<http://www.the-scientist.com/templates/trackable/display/blog.jsp?type=blog&o_url=blog/display/55671&id=55671>. http://blog.bioethics.net/2009/05/merck-makes-phony-peerreview-journal/
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