On 8 May 2014 19:27, Anthony Cole ahcoleecu@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.