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Jimmy Wales Responds to Holistic Healing Petition

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 25 2014, @02:08PM   
from the If-it-quacks-like-a-duck dept.

lhsi writes:

A petition on Change.org was created: "Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia: Create and enforce new policies that allow for true scientific discourse about holistic approaches to healing."

Jimmy Wales responded.

No, you have to be kidding me. Every single person who signed this petition needs to go back to check their premises and think harder about what it means to be honest, factual, truthful.

Wikipedia's policies around this kind of thing are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it appropriately. What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse". It isn't.

• Re:Just a wee bit closed minded? (Score: 5, Informative) by Sir Finkus on Tuesday March 25 2014, @02:28PM

  by Sir Finkus (192) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @02:28PM (#20956) Journal

  This looks to be more than old remedies, based on TFP. They want Wikipedia to include information on the benefits of things like "Energy Medicine", "Energy Psychology", "Emotional Freedom Techniques", and "Thought Field Therapy".

  As for cannabis, its medical properties are rather well established scientifically, Especially for cancer and glaucoma patients.

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