Re: The wonderful world of students, part 482834

On Jun 3, 7:36 am, Tonawanda Kardex <tonawandakar...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
After I recently bannedWikipediause in one of my research courses
(never expecting a college student to actually use it in a research
course, you see -- I'm going to have to start stating it in the
syllabus, just to make sure), one of my students sent this to me
anonymously over email:

"that is an absolute shame! It figures that our wonderful government,
once
something actually works and makes sense, deem it not so. I lovewikipedia!
I like facts, so many people deal with half truths and gossip and
false
truths that is no wonder why our country is at war. It is a gathering
place
for wonderful information, moreso then any doctor, PhD holder, and all
of
them grouped together. Why is it wrong to use information from this
website
wrong to do. I feel, that any scholar who upturns their nose to this
is
arrogant enough to retire."

My side still hurts from laughing. I really wish I knew who it was who
had sent this to me.


I use wikipedia all the time with medicine stuff, especially pharm.
If I know one of the patients on the service is on a drug that isn't
super common and there is a chance one of the attendings will ask a
student about the drug, I'll look it up on the program I
installed(which costs 120 bucks...blah) to carry around with first.
Then just for kicks sometimes I'll look it up on wikipedia to see how
thorough the info was, and it's usually more than sufficient. If I
started reciting all the interesting properties of a drug that
wikipedia cited, after a few seconds I'd get cut off and it would look
like showing off.

Academic types who bash wikipedia are lame. The same thing is true(at
least in medicine) for people who bash emedicine or uptodate. Type in
any disease on emedicine(and especially uptodate) and there will be
more than enough information concerning pathogenesis, presentation,
standard of care treatment algorithim, etc.....and I've noticed a lot
of the people who bash emedicine or uptodate have a fraction of the
knowledge that uptodate or emedicine would on that subject.


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