[Foundation-l] Funding Sources of Medical Research, was Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing...

[FT2]

Not so. The difference is we document reliable sources, we don't create
them.

A user writing "X said Y" is not verifying that Y is true. They are
verifying that X said Y was true. They need to show evidence that any third
party can check, why they believe "X said Y" is true.

Once that's done, the status of the editor is immaterial - because they
themselves are not creating anything so their ability to create information
isn't at question. They are simply saying "this is what X said, this is
where anyone can check X said it and form their own view".

By contrast academics and researchers writing papers are forming their own
view. So the factors going into that are crucial to assess the quality and
basis of that view and reliance a reader may wish to personally place on it.

FT2

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:22 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 November 2010 12:26, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That naming funding sources is in fact *standard in the field* is,
> > however, something that strongly suggests we should not deliberately
> > withhold such information from the reader.
>
> Err we don't. They are free to consult the source.
>
> However the field in question has long established standards when it
> comes to citation.
>
> So for example when "Anti-HIV-1 activity of salivary MUC5B and MUC7
> mucins from HIV patients with different CD4 counts" cites "Interaction
> of HIV-1 and human salivary mucin" they do so in the form of:
>
> "Bergey EJ, Cho MI, Blumberg BM, Hammarskjold ML, Rekosh D, Epstein
> LG, Levine MJ. Interaction of HIV-1 and human salivary mucins. J
> Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 1994;7:995–1002."
>
> And do not mention it's funding source
>
> (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967540/).
>
>
> So if you wanted to follow the standards of their field editors would
> have to disclose their funding source. This would presumably result in
> a history entry looking something like this:
>
> 12:23, 6 November 2010 examplestudent (talk | contribs | block)
> (127,638 bytes) (nonsensical edit involving plankton)(funding:parents
> +student loans company limited+Joint Information Systems Committee)
> (rollback | undo)
>
> --
> geni
>
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