According to latest reports, there have been signs showing attempts to edit information related to scientific matters to falsely opinions and mislead readers.

Some point out that the edits show politicising of scientific matters including climate change, vaccines and evolution.

A new study of edits to the acid rain entry as well as to "global warming" and "evolution" found that these topics attract a high number of edits. Gene Likens, a celebrated ecologist who is president emeritus of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N. Y and Adam Wilson of the University of Buffalo ecologist Adam Wilson found that "global warming" and "evolution" geta much higher number of edits than other scientific matters.

It is believed that this is because many people opposed to the existence of global warming and climate change continues to get their point of view published but scientific evidence keeps flowing on the entries. Likens and Wilson downloaded history of revisions over a nearly ten year period between mid-2003 and mid-2012 of seven Wikipedia entries - "acid rain," "global warming," "evolution," "heliocentrism," "general relativity," "continental drift," and the "standard model" in physics to study the edits. They studied edits made per day, average edits and how many average words were added, cut, or changed for each edit.

The recent study was published by Likens in the open access journal PLOS One.