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 ahcoleecu@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 jmh649@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
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