User:Langstrom7inchgangleywrench/sandbox

First I want to say that I greatly appreciate Wikipedia. I have tried to contribute when I can to various subjects including history and healing disciplines. For the latter, I am noticing a lot of areas that are locked from anyone editing it, such as Ayurveda or homeopathy, or other natural medicine modalities. On top of that, I noticed that the verbiage in these articles portrays these in a derogatory manner, often calling them “pseudoscience”. Chinese medicine, homeopathy, Ayurveda, and many others being portrayed with derogatory language with no justification other than the person’s bias and a sense of cultural superiority.

Listen, I understand that in this time Wikipedia is concerned about misinformation on its platform, and I want to stress to you that I am not an anti-VAX person nor am I a Covid denier. I am very much for vaccines and the authority of health experts like Dr. Fauci. I understand the reason why these areas may be locked, what I do not understand or agree with however, is the biased, derogatory language towards any healing disciplines that actually might be of help in recovery from COVID-19, and you do a disservice to your users while giving some people the excuse of portraying Wikipedia as nefarious or beholden to secret dark forces in doing so. There are bozos out there that say the stupidest things about Wikipedia, like you’re run by the CIA, the Rothschilds, on and on. We are in a war with these shitheads. Let’s not give them ammo. I want to point to Wikipedia and have it be a indisputable source of legitimate information, with the reputation as that. You see what my point is here?

I am not asking for the floodgates to be open so just anybody can post any random nonsense about dealing with Covid or health in general. What I am asking for is an unbiased and fair portrayal of natural medicines, some hundreds or thousands of years old and have done good for humankind. Their portrayal as pseudoscience is unwarranted and only serves to damage Wikipedia’s ability to be a neutral source of valid information on all topics. There needs to be a better, more even treatment of things that do not fall within the sphere of Western medicine. Blocking any dissent and not giving equal treatment to these disciplines only damages the reputation of Wikipedia. Peer review is essential to our scientific inquiry, so let’s give these disciplines the chance to have some honest peer review on Wikipedia.