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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:I have no problem with the petition. (Score: 2) by ancientt on Wednesday March 26 2014, @12:57AM

  by ancientt (40) <ancientt@yahoo.com> on Wednesday March 26 2014, @12:57AM (#21264) Homepage Journal

  The whole point of trying to compel Wikipedia to do something is to take advantage of the good reputation that Wikipedia has earned when they cannot earn the same reputation themselves.

  I get your humor. It is worth saying just for the entertainment value.

  Still though, this crosses a line.

  • Ignorable: try to profit from something you had no hand in creating.
  • Should be fought: believe you have an entitlement to do it.

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