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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.

• Well Done That Man! (Score: 1, Offtopic) by wantkitteh on Tuesday March 25 2014, @05:33PM

  by wantkitteh (3362) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @05:33PM (#21082) Homepage Journal

  Allergic to bullshit! Merely allowing bullshit into Wikipedia will, in the minds of the easily impressed, add weight to the claims these quacks make, no matter how many banners you spray over the page proclaiming these claims are unsubstantiated.

  For anyone who hasn't seen it already, Tim Minchin's "Storm: The Animated Movie" (short, 10m38s) is an awesome beat poem that far more people need to see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U [youtube.com]

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