Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, is confronted with another edit wars. This was after Wikipedia’s editor ranted to petitioners who called for the online encyclopedia to “allow for true scientific discourse" on holistic healing.
Editor Jimmy Wales issued a sharp response to petitioners from Change.org. The said petitioners said that much of the information on Wikipedia on holistic healing is "biased, misleading, out of date, or just plain wrong".
The petition has already attracted 8000 supporters after its publication. It claimed, "For five years, repeated efforts to correct this misinformation have been blocked and the Wikipedia organization has not addressed these issues.”
Further the petition said, "As a result, people who are interested in the benefits of Energy Medicine, Energy Psychology and specific approaches such as the Emotional Freedom Techniques, Thought Field Therapy and the Tapas Acupressure Technique turn to your pages, trust what they read, and do not pursue getting help from these approaches which research has, in fact, proven to be of great benefit to many."
Wales gave a sharp response posted on the same page which read, "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."
Wales added, “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."
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