Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way 517
Barence (1228440) writes with this excerpt from PC Pro: "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has issued a sharp response to petitioners calling for his site to "allow for true scientific discourse" on holistic healing. The petition, currently running on the Change.org site, claims that much of the information on Wikipedia relating to holistic approaches to healing is "biased, misleading, out of date, or just plain wrong". It has attracted almost 8,000 supporters at the time of publication. Wales's response to the petition, posted on the same page, is far from conciliatory: 'No, you have to be kidding me,' he writes. '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. What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse'. It isn't.'"
Tapas Acupressure Technique (Score:4, Funny)
Mmmm... Tapas!
Re:Wikipedia ruined the internet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Seems like a fine line (Score:3, Funny)
Anecdote, n.: An observation that supports the other guy's hypothesis.
Wikipedia...wrong? No! (Score:4, Funny)
>> claims that much of the information on Wikipedia relating to (whatever) is "biased, misleading, out of date, or just plain wrong"
Er...no shit? Personally, I subscribe to this view: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... [wikipedia.org]
Don't knock my favorite yogi (Score:3, Funny)
My favorite yogi taught me that it ain't over until it's over, and that it's deja vu all over again.
Okay (Score:2, Funny)
The placebo effect is well known in medicine.
By using common sense, Jimmy Wales is taking away placebos that were actually effective!
Hence, his actions are detrimental to medicine.
Re:Asimov quote. (Score:5, Funny)
I see that Isaac Asimov had trouble with Unicode too, just like Slashdot.
Re:Wikipedia ruined the internet (Score:5, Funny)
All of the information on Wikipedia is "plagiarized" by design; it's not a place for original research it's an encyclopedia.[1] [slashdot.org]
1. ^a [slashdot.org]Anonymous Coward
Voodoo (Score:5, Funny)
Wake up Wikipedia!!
Re:You know what they call alternative medicine... (Score:1, Funny)
So far, not one has been shown to do anything because it's all the placebo effect which has been demonstrated in numerous studies.
Talk about hoist by your own petard. The placebo effect has been proven to work, so if alternative medicines rely on it, then they are scientifically proven to work.
Given that the placebo effect exists, don't you think it would it make sense that we'd have a branch of medicine which attempted to trigger it, especially when all other interventions have failed?
That branch is called alternative medicine and by your own admission it works as well as a real placebo. If we had a proven medicine for all known diseases and conditions, there would be no need for this branch of medicine, but we don't.
God, nerds can be so dumb sometimes.
Re:You know what they call alternative medicine... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Asimov quote. (Score:4, Funny)
No, it's just that, â, Issac Asimov really did, â, stammer and clear his throat a lot, âoe, when, â, he said this.
Re:The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data' (Score:5, Funny)
An anecdote serves, at best, a rough start in forming a hypothesis. But an anecdote is utterly useless outside of that context.
My grandfather used anecdotal evidence every day, and he lived to be 95!
Re:You know what they call alternative medicine... (Score:5, Funny)
Re: Wikipedia ruined the internet (Score:5, Funny)
> and the anti-vaxxers that won't accept any level of evidence.
OMG What year is it? People are still talking about Vaxes in 2014? When was the last one even rolled out? Shit, I almost took one home from a scrap heap... 14 years ago.
My god let VMS die already.
Re:Wikipedia ruined the internet (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot is not a reliable source.
I'll give you a few days to find a better source, or I'm going to revert.
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