James Heilman (Doc James)
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 3:45 am
The good Doctor definitely seems to have a strategy for ensuring Wikipedia becomes the preeminent global medical resource.
In the below links, he is both a cited author and a quoted interviewee on the subject of Wikipedia's medical content.
https://mededu.jmir.org/2017/2/e20/#ref29
https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/wi ... study.html
Experienced critics will spot rather easily what the problems are with that study and the resulting media coverage.
Unfortunately we only get to see it after it is published.
What has to happen at the very least, is a recognition on the part of academia and the media, that even though he isn't paid to edit Wikipedia, in terms of professional reputation and indeed personal ideological goals, he absolutely has a conflict of interest here.
In the below links, he is both a cited author and a quoted interviewee on the subject of Wikipedia's medical content.
https://mededu.jmir.org/2017/2/e20/#ref29
https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/wi ... study.html
Experienced critics will spot rather easily what the problems are with that study and the resulting media coverage.
Unfortunately we only get to see it after it is published.
What has to happen at the very least, is a recognition on the part of academia and the media, that even though he isn't paid to edit Wikipedia, in terms of professional reputation and indeed personal ideological goals, he absolutely has a conflict of interest here.