file Study: 90 percent of health information on Wikipedia is wrong

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29 May 2014 00:06 #44786 by jemco
Here's the source:
www.jaoa.org/content/114/5/334.full

Many of us have seen the lies on Wikipedia regarding MMS. Well, now we have further evidence of Wikipedia lies.
Here's my local news report on the article:
5/28/14 12:47 PM
If you have a question about your health, do you use Wikipedia?

The crowd-sourcing online encyclopedia is a popular tool for some students and others to find a quick answer, but it may be a destination to avoid for health information.

A study published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association tested the reliability of the crowd-sourced entries on Wikipedia.

Researchers looked at the 10 most costly medical conditions in the country – like lung cancer, back pain, and osteoarthritis.

They found the Wikipedia entries contradict medical research for peer-reviewed journals about 90 percent of the time – information on nine out of 10 entries had errors.

But it’s not just people at home using it – the study found that 47 to 70 percent of physicians and medical students use it as a reference.

The researchers conclude that caution should be exercised when using websites such as Wikipedia for any medical questuh on traject
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01 Jun 2014 20:14 #44905 by jemco
I have attached the file as a pdf, to provide access in case the originating web site removes access to it.
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01 Mar 2018 17:12 #57767 by nigelisok
that low, eh? ;)

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01 Mar 2018 20:38 #57768 by gabyher
Wikipedia is an effective, low cost disinformation tool. I don't use it at all. The 'errors' are not errors, they are lies.
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08 Feb 2021 05:29 #67831 by SM
Probably best not to use wikipedia for anything other than entertainment although the hard sciences like chemistry and biology are generally ok. Any topics with vested interests like politics and big pharma are not useful.

The WHO recently redefined herd-immunity to mean a population protected by vaccines, so that pretty much sums up the sorry state of wikipedia health information.
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09 Feb 2021 12:12 #67848 by mart1n
The foundation of atheism and secularity is based on scientism, which is the most dangerous religion because people are not aware they believe in various sciences that are believed to aid humanity.
Belief in science = scientism. Practicing science is something entirely different.
Evolutionism, BigBangism, Democratism, Historyism, Journalism, Virologyism etc. All blind faith.
The secular masses looking down on traditional religion, or spirituality, on basis of not being conscious of ones own participation in the world wide church of scientism.

This is why it's almost impossible to explain to people corona is fake. People BELIEVE they are NOT religious about anything!
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06 May 2021 17:12 #68869 by ClO2.nl
Wikipedia is open info: you can add and change info. I also did that on the topic censuur of wikipedia nl. I mentioned as example that the news from Mexico and Bolivia is being censored. ;)

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06 May 2021 21:14 #68872 by CLO2
They change it back after you make a change. Don't waste you time with Wikipedia. 

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13 Jun 2021 14:11 #69437 by ClO2.nl
No they don't do that aways: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censuur_%28informatie%29
This part of the topic is mine: "Censuur wegens nepnieuws"

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25 Jul 2021 18:05 #70214 by AZVamp

They change it back after you make a change. Don't waste you time with Wikipedia. 
 
Yes, and it's gotten worse. The founder of Wikipedia was on Fox News yesterday. He's disgusted with the lame stream media and what they've done lately to this resource.

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