[Wikipedia-l] Re: The Onion on Peer Review

[sannse]

Chad Perrin wrote:

>>>And just in case: you do realise it's fiction, don't you. ;)
>>
>>Where does it say that? The site passes itself off as a "news source",
>>so I don't think it was unreasonable of me to think it was real.
>>
> 
> 
> Err . . . The Onion is satire.  It doesn't seriously purport to be a
> "news source" in the normal sense.  Its stories are intended to be taken
> as satirical treatments of the news, and as far as I'm aware none of its
> stories have ever been true.
> 

'Course, it's not the first time it's been mistaken for the real thing - 
there was the famous Harry Potter flap...

http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/potter.htm

--sannse