Wikipedia's own article on Michael Persinger, the neuroscientist known for research linking brain stimulation to reported mystical experience, is a tertiary encyclopedic source. Its strength is that it reliably records his standard biographical and career facts. Its limit is the ordinary one for a crowd edited encyclopedia entry: fine for uncontroversial biography, not a substitute for the peer reviewed literature evaluating his research, including the replication attempts that later complicated it.
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Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: a Wikipedia entry, written and revised by unnamed volunteer editors, suited to uncontroversial standard biographical fact rather than to the peer reviewed literature evaluating his research. NotesWikipedia's article on Michael Persinger. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Michael Persinger (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Persinger
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Historical Figures, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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