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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.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by spiritfiend on Tuesday March 25 2014, @02:58PM
It's unfair to lump marijuana in with holistic medicine. Due to it's classification, there have been limited opportunities to actually test it's effects in a controlled scientific manner. There's a difference between not testing something that has anecdotal because it is not economically feasible to do so, and risking your freedom to test something that has anecdotal benefits.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:04PM
I'm not sure, really. There was a time, when many, many medicines included marijuana or hemp extracts. Snake oil salesmen included it in all sorts of preparations. Marijuana does have some verifiable benefits, but marijuana also has a lot of undocumented claims and uses in it's history.
There used to be a site on the web, kept up by some old graybeard, with photos of medicine bottles, and their contents and ingredients listed. Recipes, uses, and claims for "cures" for all kinds of things. To bad his site was taken down, there was a LOT of information on the site in addition to his photo pages. I simply cannot believe ALL the claims for marijuana that I read on that site. I'm sure that some of those snake oil salesmen just made sure that the mixture of alcohol, cannabanoids, and other ingredients were mildly to highly intoxicating so that the victim - errr, I mean patient - was sure to "feel good" after drinking it.
Yes, there is science behind the use of marijuana, but there is a lack of science behind many of the claims made for it.
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