tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post1339763859556007979..comments2024-03-02T23:26:33.502-08:00Comments on Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia: We Got Your Wiki Back! The Numbers from Nightline's Beyond Beliefsgerbichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14354138750695010886noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post-8002210222468551832011-08-24T21:02:12.610-07:002011-08-24T21:02:12.610-07:00Oh, and by the way. I found your blog through the ...Oh, and by the way. I found your blog through the Richarddawkins.net website. That's another one of my daily lurking grounds.<br /><br />Peace!JuJunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post-3514747973898116942011-08-24T20:57:47.527-07:002011-08-24T20:57:47.527-07:00I'm very familiar Dr. Novella, I read the Scie...I'm very familiar Dr. Novella, I read the Science Based Medicine blog everyday, along with Oracs Respectful Insolence and Dr. Barret's Quackwatch. They're all extremely helpful in expanding my personal knowledge about CAM and the rest of the Wooniverse (LOL). I think it was Quackwatch that first brought Andrew Weil to my attention, now he's on my radar, so when I saw he's name on your list I was a bit surprised and just knew it was either a mistake or you hadn't really looked into him thoroughly. But anyway, I'm glad you read my comment and acted on it like a true skeptic. ThanksJuJunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post-77144996180571838732011-08-23T22:21:48.915-07:002011-08-23T22:21:48.915-07:00One more thing...Andrew Weil is getting about 6K h...One more thing...Andrew Weil is getting about 6K hits a month. As much as Van Praagh over 70K a year. That's a lot of views.sgerbichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14354138750695010886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post-90047388476769658732011-08-23T22:20:02.137-07:002011-08-23T22:20:02.137-07:00Just quickly added some Wiki Hyperlinks to Steven ...Just quickly added some Wiki Hyperlinks to Steven Novella and a few others.sgerbichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14354138750695010886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post-72176790832132672082011-08-23T22:16:51.504-07:002011-08-23T22:16:51.504-07:00Thank you JuJu. This happened before with the BEM...Thank you JuJu. This happened before with the BEM guy, Robert Jahn. I wrote a blog on it stating that I should know better. And if the page fools me when I'm looking at it then what do you think the rest of the world thinks when they read it? <br /><br />And now that I look more closely I notice these two blurbs left...<br /><br />"Dr. Arnold Relman, editor in chief emeritus of The New England Journal of Medicine wrote:<br /><br /> "There are not two kinds of medicine, one conventional and the other unconventional, that can be practiced jointly in a new kind of "integrative medicine." Nor, as Andrew Weil and his friends also would have us believe, are there two kinds of thinking, or two ways to find out which treatments work and which do not. In the best kind of medical practice, all proposed treatments must be tested objectively. In the end, there will only be treatments that pass that test and those that do not, those that are proven worthwhile and those that are not. Can there be any reasonable "alternative"?"[9]<br /><br />Speaking of government funding studies of integrating alternative medicine techniques into the mainstream, Dr. Steven Novella, a neurologist at Yale School of Medicine wrote that it "is used to lend an appearance of legitimacy to treatments that are not legitimate." Dr. Marcia Angell, executive editor of The New England Journal of Medicine says, "It's a new name for snake oil."[8]"<br /><br />Very good catch JuJu. I suppose that there is some work to be done on this page. His page "looks" better than a lot of our skeptical spokesperson's pages (yet no picture, so I guess his followers don't care that much, only a little)sgerbichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14354138750695010886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post-13935968147662073112011-08-23T21:54:21.695-07:002011-08-23T21:54:21.695-07:00I noticed you have Andrew Weil listed as one of th...I noticed you have Andrew Weil listed as one of the Wikipedia pages you want to enhance, Weil is a snake oil salesman who is trying to integrate woo with science.<br /><br />Maybe you listed it in hopes of skepticizing it?JuJunoreply@blogger.com