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Jimmy Wales Responds to Holistic Healing Petition

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 25 2014, @02:08PM   Printer-friendly
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.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by SleazyRidr on Tuesday March 25 2014, @02:35PM

    by SleazyRidr (882) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @02:35PM (#20963)

    The placebo effect is well known and documented. Selling holistic supplements with the promise that they'll ease symptoms is ok. You don't need to "open up" Wikipedia to say that, it's already there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Complementary_ and_Alternative_Medicine [wikipedia.org]

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