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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.
(Score: 2) by zim on Tuesday March 25 2014, @10:37PM
And that's what the 'holistic' crap falls under. It too requires faith and belief to work. It too can't be proven in double blind studys.
And it too has the loudest screeching harpys telling everyone it's absolute true.
I still don't understand why religion isn't treated as a mental illness. Or maybe a virus. It could fit into either catagory.
Walk around believing an invisible guy is watching everything you do and telling you what you should do.... We tend to lock you up for that. Call that invisible guy god. And ohhhhhh now it's ok.
Pretty fucked up imho.
One of the largest remaining hurdles left to human society before we can really advance.. Getting rid of religion.
Shame i won't live that long. It would be interesting to see what that change alone could bring.