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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:selective "inclusion" Re:selective "inclusion" (Score: 4, Funny) by TheGratefulNet on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:25PM

  by TheGratefulNet (659) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:25PM (#20993)

  a simple fix would do it: anything that is not factual based should have their pages rendered with a purple background (which happens to be the exact color of unicorns). then, you'd know for sure you were reading fictional material.

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• Re:selective "inclusion" (Score: 2, Informative) by rcamera on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:44PM

  by rcamera (2360) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:44PM (#21008) Homepage Journal

  everybody knows that unicorns of the invisible variety are, in fact, pink [wikipedia.org]. not purple. the visible ones range in color from ~0x000000 to ~0xFFFFFF

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