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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 wjwlsn on Wednesday March 26 2014, @06:15PM
At the time I read it, the parent post was rated (Score 1: Flamebait). The post is clearly written in a non-inflammatory style, conveys its argument in a clear and unambiguous fashion, and is generally polite and on-topic... so why did somebody mod it down?
This is an example of shitty moderating. Maybe it expresses a minority opinion here on SN, but that doesn't mean it has no value. In fact, that's why it has value in the first place. If you don't like what edIII has to say on the subject, then post an intelligent reply that addresses the points of disagreement.
I personally am extremely skeptical of "alternative medicine" - see, I put it in quotes because I have difficulty referring to it as medicine at all! Even so, I probably would have modded this up because of its positive aspects... maybe "+1 Interesting" or "+1 Underrated". I most certainly would not have modded it down!
I am a traveler of both time and space. Duh.