Wiki4CAM
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Wiki4CAM (though under their logo, Wiki 4 CAM) is a tiny wiki dedicated to saving alternative medicine from the scientific method. While the website makes it clear that skeptics need not apply[1], the site is, to date, predominantly a RationalWiki outpost, enjoying low to moderate use by only a few editors. The site is supported in part by Hpathy.com, a traditional (i.e., non-wiki) website dedicated to promoting homeopathy.
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[edit] Differences to Wikipedia
Like Conservapedia, Wiki4CAM has been set up to counter precieved bias in Wikipedia. In this case however, rather than an excess of liberal beliefs, Wiki4CAM states that Wikipedia's open policies has lead to it "gaining political views" and that editors have gone out of their way to "discredit and disrepute nearly all alternative medicine as unscientific". As Wikipedia must be A) neutral and B) verifiable, this is hardly suprising and pseudoscience, by the site rules cannot be written as if it was 100% verifiable and real. It also claims to be a "true knowledge base" for alternative medicine whereas Wikipedia is biased due to "skeptical intervention". [2]
[edit] Articles of note
While Wiki4CAM struggles with Poe's Law and has all ready deleted some real classics such as tree therapy, a few articles are starting to become worth mentioning, for all the wrong reasons:
- That's not lemonade, that's a space station! Although it's "Criticism by mainstream medicine" section is about as fair as you can get.
- The suspense is killing totally us. A lot of Wiki4CAM seems to be like this...
- "A wand is a thin rod used by a magician..."
- A good wiki article should always start with the title... and end with the title. And have the title in the middle, of course.
Articles you might consider important for a CAM site, like say homeopathy and even alternative medicine have been copied almost whole sale from Wikipedia. This also includes all of the evil criticism they complain about on their various policy pages.
Amidst the Wikipedia copying and stub fest are a few solid bastions of wacky CAM rhetoric. The Myths about homeopathy offers some great reading, including the fact that homeopathy is not just water but water that has been shaken just right.
[edit] Activity
Despite heroic attempts to the contrary Wiki4CAM appears as if it dead on arrival. The only activity is a couple of site administrators puttering around once or twice a week. The one stop CAM shop of the future needs some serious injection of "caring." Be sure to tell all your chiropractor and herbal dealer friends about Wiki4CAM before it is too late!
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