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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: 3) by Kell on Tuesday March 25 2014, @11:25PM
It's posts like this, the "Thank you for your insights" posts, that make me glad Soylent is a thing! It seems we have selectively attracted people who want good discussion and useful debate, whilst leaving behind a lot of the trolls and partisans. Even thought Soylent is smaller than /., I feel like the quality is much higher. But perhaps this should not be too surprising when you think that the people who came to Soylent are the people who actually care about the quality of their news.
Polite debate on the internet - who'd have known?
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