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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.

• aint it sick? (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:06PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:06PM (#20983)

  Homer:
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          A thought occurred to me.
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          Of every shape and size.
          I want to nibble on Jamaican jerks
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          I want to French-kiss a Frenchman
          And spoon an English duke.
          'Cause frankly, dear
          To not be queer
          Just makes me want to puke.

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          Who'll want you in the sack.
          I recommend our dear old friend...
          Bartender Moe Szyslak!

          Moe:
          Letters don't lie!

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