We know how important, and how accurate, Wikipedia's medical articles are: http://community.cochrane.org/news/blog/wikipedia%E2%80%99s-medical-content-really-90-wrong … @SharylAttkisson
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@nature found in 2005, this new study by Oxford shows Wikipedia as accurate as encyclopedias: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/EPIC_Oxford_report.pdf …@SharylAttkisson -
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@PLOSONE 2014: Wikipedia is an accurate and comprehensive source of drug-related information http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0106930 …@SharylAttkisson -
We know we're not perfect--we have a whole article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia … (it needs some updating!)
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We also know our health content is changing lives and that people rely on it. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/business/media/wikipedia-is-emerging-as-trusted-internet-source-for-information-on-ebola-.html …
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@SharylAttkisson see this rebuttal of the JAOA study you mention in your talk: http://community.cochrane.org/news/blog/wikipedia%E2%80%99s-medical-content-really-90-wrong …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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