wedrifid comments on Med Patient Social Networks Are Better Scientific Institutions - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Liron 19 February 2010 08:11AM

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Comment author: RobinZ 19 February 2010 12:31:49PM 12 points [-]

I fear this might suffer from Google's problem: once it becomes relied on, the persistent factor which was relied upon gets corrupted.

You can treat it as information, but not as science - it's not protected from malice the same way scientific studies are.

Comment author: wedrifid 20 February 2010 01:02:37AM 6 points [-]

You can treat it as information, but not as science - it's not protected from malice the same way scientific studies are.

Scientific studies aren't protected from malice the way PatientsLikeMe is either.