> every paper has a review section built into the background section,
The parts of a source that do secondary source things are considered a secondary source. I highly doubt many of those sections are entirely de novo without reference to prior evidence syntheses though, considering how much time a proper systematic review takes.
> it's also a bad policy for seemingly controversial topics. the medical establishment is composed of humans with plenty of biases and groupthink, so a perfectly good idea can be shunned or ignored for decades if it's inconvenient to the establishment.
The hierarchy of medical evidence being bad is not really something that Wikipedia (or any encyclopedia) can solve. Something that overturns the establishment of a field would not really be an encyclopedia.
> technically the wikipedia regulations don't outright ban primary literature as long as you give the necessary caveats, but there are plenty of megalomaniacal admins don't care about nuance (e.g. MrOllie)
If you have any specific examples that you believe merit review you are free to forward them to me.
The parts of a source that do secondary source things are considered a secondary source. I highly doubt many of those sections are entirely de novo without reference to prior evidence syntheses though, considering how much time a proper systematic review takes.
> it's also a bad policy for seemingly controversial topics. the medical establishment is composed of humans with plenty of biases and groupthink, so a perfectly good idea can be shunned or ignored for decades if it's inconvenient to the establishment.
The hierarchy of medical evidence being bad is not really something that Wikipedia (or any encyclopedia) can solve. Something that overturns the establishment of a field would not really be an encyclopedia.
> technically the wikipedia regulations don't outright ban primary literature as long as you give the necessary caveats, but there are plenty of megalomaniacal admins don't care about nuance (e.g. MrOllie)
If you have any specific examples that you believe merit review you are free to forward them to me.