Wikipedia's Boss Called "Holistic Healers" Crazy Liars

There's been a Change.org petition circulating, demanding NewAge witchdoctors be allowed to amend the information on their practices in Wikipedia. Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales, replied:

  "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."

And with that bit of TMR, once again - slowly but surely - the western world takes another step towards my American ideal,...