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(a)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(a)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
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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