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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> [email protected] >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/[email protected]> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
