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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:12PM (#20988)

    is there a holistic medicine wiki somewhere else on the internet? if not, just make one. screw jimmy whales and wikipedia.

    i like jimmy whales and wikipedia, i'm just saying the solution is simple if the goal is to aggregate and disseminate knowledge. this seems more like a strategically picked political battle.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Kilo110 on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:46PM

    by Kilo110 (2853) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:46PM (#21010)

    They couldn't care less about having a wiki, they stated they want the publicity that comes with having a wikipedia article.

    Most likely to peddle more of their snake oil to gullible and desperate people.

  • (Score: 0) by chris.alex.thomas on Tuesday March 25 2014, @05:00PM

    by chris.alex.thomas (2331) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @05:00PM (#21058)

    exactly! KNOWLEDGE! not bullshit.

    so wikipedia is doing a the right thing....ignoring the ignorant lunatics.....

  • (Score: 1) by The Archon V2.0 on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:33AM

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:33AM (#21307)

    They had a few. As far as I know they're, heh, mostly dead now. (There was one called Wiki4somethingorother and I seem to recall a controversy about some homeopath quack being chums with the guy who ran Wikipedia-killer Citizendium and being made expert in charge of the medical articles.)