On 8 May 2014 19:27, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with those above who highlight the flaws in
the current scholarly
peer-review process. If enWikipedia is to embrace scholarly review (and we
should) we need to confront and address the well-known problems with peer
review in today's scholarship.
While acknowledging the likely truth of the flaws in scientific
knowledge production as it stands (single studies in medicine being
literally useless, as 80% are actually wrong) ... I think you'll have
a bit of an uphill battle attempting to enforce stronger standards in
Wikipedia than exist in the field itself. We could go to requiring all
medical sourced to be Cochrane-level studies of studies of studies,
but then you need to convince everyone else to delete the entirety of
the long tail of articles that won't yet have those.
- d.