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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? Re:Just a wee bit closed minded? (Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:09PM

  by VLM (445) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:09PM (#20984)

  That's a nice and long response, but a short summary would be something like:

  "Real medicine works better than a placebo even if no one involved has blind faith in it."

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• Re:Just a wee bit closed minded? (Score: 4, Insightful) by kebes on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:56PM

  by kebes (1505) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:56PM (#21018)

  There's also that quote/joke [wikiquote.org]:

  Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine.

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