Trust your doctor, not Wikipedia, say scientists

in science on 2014-05-29 12:02 (#3N4)

Concerns over errors in health articles on Wikipedia have caused some scientists to warn against using the free encyclopedia to self diagnose medical conditions.

Most Wikipedia articles representing the 10 most costly medical conditions in the United States contain many errors when checked against standard peer-reviewed sources. Caution should be used when using Wikipedia to answer questions regarding patient care.

Re: An Encyclopedia Is Not A Medical Journal. Film at 11. (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-30 13:38 (#1Z8)

It would, however, be nice if there were at least SOME competition in the sorta-trustworthy, sorta-authoritative, crap-free general interest information marketplace.

But you know, there just isn't. :(

WP owns that space the way that Google owns search or Facebook owns social networking. (Interestingly WP is the only one of those three that I use.)