Thanks Lane. Bloody Mayo Clinic. Google can dump them, too, in my opinion. Has anyone told Google?
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcole...@gmail.com> wrote: > James: Google obviously made a bad choice of source there, or a good > source got something catastrophically wrong. That does not mean Google (or > anyone) should rely on Wikipedia's systemically unreliable content. > Wikipedia should not be trusted for anything - least of all health matters . > > Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole> > > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcole...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> James: Wow. Like wow. Do you have screen shots of that Google Hep C >> thing? That's appalling. Is there any indication of what the source was? My >> mate runs the local Hep C council and that particular canard is something >> they fight very hard to debunk. >> >> >> >> Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 8:36 PM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> While Wikipedia's medical content is far from perfect, Google knowledge >>> graphs however have issues as well. >>> >>> For example they say that Hepatitis C is MAINLY spread by sexual contact. >>> >>> This 2010 review in Hepatology states "Regarding heterosexual >>> transmission, >>> the weight of evidence is that there is no increased risk of sexual >>> transmission of HCV among heterosexual couples in regular relationships" >>> >>> WHO says it is a less common method. The main methods of transmission are >>> injection drug use and unscreened blood transmission. >>> >>> -- >>> James Heilman >>> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian >>> >>> The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine >>> www.opentextbookofmedicine.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
