Comment by cmeacham98
4 years ago
Can you elaborate on how those examples prove your claim? None of those examples seem to show a political bias.
4 years ago
Can you elaborate on how those examples prove your claim? None of those examples seem to show a political bias.
Ok...Kendrick — attacked specifically for questioning the role the cholesterol in heart disease and the efficacy of statins. Read through the discussion and it becomes clear that there are fundamentalists who don't want anyone who, rightly or wrongly, questions a current medical orthodoxy to even be noted. Keeping them off WP in this way is an attempt to write such dissident voices off as loons and not even worth investigating, to make it such that when someone does not appear on WP, it will be a sign that they're not even at the edge of the conversation.
Is the role of chloresterol in heart disease a political topic somewhere I'm not aware of? I'm not here to argue about whether or not other biases exist on Wikipedia.
You specifically claimed political bias and I specifically challenged that claim. If you'd like to retract that claim and walk it back to bias against medical unorthodoxy, that's ok with me.
I'd suggest that it is political insofar as money = power. Consider how valuable an editor could be to a company with an interest in keeping criticism of its product(s) out of the public eye — WP's lack of transparency makes questions about the above possible.
At the same time, note I also said or policy-wise — there are plenty of vested interests with government backing for standardized care policies, which can include prescriptions (side example — government diet standards trickle down into the food provided for everyone in Federal care of one sort or another). Standards of care put requirements on doctors, and maintaining those standards of care is of quite some importance to those who have built reputations and careers based on certain drugs and procedures, and to a host of other parties. If these sorts of things aren't political, and tied to political interests, I'm not sure what could be.
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