[Foundation-l] New project proposal: wiki-based troubleshooting

[Thomas Dalton]

On 5 May 2010 16:34, Alex <mrzmanwiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/4/2010 5:16 PM, Yao Ziyuan wrote:
>> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We definitely do not want to be giving medical advice to people. If
>>>> you get that wrong, people die. Medical advice should be got by going
>>>> to the doctors. Can you give another example of what your idea could
>>
>> Yes, medical troubleshooting is both extremely useful and extremely
>> sensitive, and that's why I said "Like Wikipedia, WikiTroubleshooting
>> should cite credible references." We could put a warning and a
>> disclaimer on every medical troubleshooting page telling the visitor
>> to check cited references and other sources before adopting any
>> advice.
>
> A disclaimer would probably shield us from lawsuits

What is your basis for that? My understanding is the disclaimers
rarely do anything legally.