What is the deal with the Mpemba Effect? The Wikipedia page for it is super quick to credit some African for discovering it and then it immediately goes into how controversial it is and how the claim is basically entirely unsubstantiated. Why does this Wikipedia page even exist for this conspiracy theory?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect

For the uninformed, Mpemba effect basically states that things freeze faster when they start from a warmer temperature.