ERROR RIDDEN: In spite of its inaccuracy, between 47% and 70% of doctors and medical students admit to using Wikipedia as a reference, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.
Doctors scour online encyclopedia’s health-related pages; find errors in nine of 10 articles.
At the first signs of illness, many of us don’t hesitate to look up our symptoms and corresponding conditions on Wikipedia. But according to a study published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, the vast majority of health-related pages on the open online encyclopedia are laden with errors.
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