User talk:Erika Butler

I really love Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I would also like to see more and more Universities contributing information about terms, sciences, law, etc. (especially in Australia). Even though some may regard the content as dubious and questionable, to me, the mere fact that it may be so, is still of benefit because academic education does not just depend upon 'accepted' facts etc., but should also encourage questioning these facts.

To back this statement up I draw upon someone like Dr. Semmelweis, who believed (despite opposition from his superiors in Vienna at the time) that doctors should wash their hands - right up to the elbow it seems - before examining more than one patient, eg. at that time a doctor could be found examining a man with a boil, then proceed to make an internal examination of a pregnant woman without cleansing his hands sufficiently because the connection was not found to be very important and cross infection occurred constantly which consequently led to most pregnant patients in those hospitals to die of fever induced by infection.

So I find this site extremely beneficial because it introduces me to disciplines otherwise unavailable to me without having to pay high education fees.

Once I read the information listed in this wonderful site, it then encourages me to follow this information up with other sources even though 9/10 times I find that information posted on wikipedia is absolutely correct.