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Feeling a bit sick?
身体感觉有点不适？
Maybe you checked your symptoms on Wikipedia before seeing a doctor.
也许看医生之前你曾在Wiki百科网站上搜索过相关症状。
And maybe your doctor checked Wikipedia before seeing you.
或许医生在见你之前也登陆Wiki百科查询过。
Up to 70 percent of physicians and medical students admit to using Wikipedia as a reference, too.
多达70%的医生和医学院的学生们承认他们常用Wiki百科作为参考。
But Wikipedia can be shockingly wrong.
但这家知名网站可能存在严重错误。
Researchers who compared peer-reviewed articles to the Wikipedia pages for the 10 most costly medical conditions in the U.S.—including heart disease, back pain and osteoarthritis—discovered incorrect information on nine out of 10 pages.
研究人员们与同类审阅过后信息比较过后，他们发现对包括心脏病，背痛以及骨关节炎在内的美国10种高发疾病中Wiki网页上的搜索结果10篇文章中有9篇中的信息是错误的。
Only information on concussions appeared to be accurate.
只有对脑震荡的信息检索所显示的内容还算靠谱。
The study is in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.
该研究已在《美国骨科医学协会》杂志上发表。
Earlier research suggested that Wikipedia is roughly comparable to peer-reviewed sources.
早期研究显示相对于同类审阅过的文献来源Wiki百科的是比较粗糙。
A study in the journal Nature in 2005 found Wikipedia was about as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica, even about science topics.
一篇于2005年在自然杂志上发表的研究曾发现Wiki百科和大不列颠大百科全书一样精准，甚至有关科学方面也是如此。
But that analysis looked only at 42 entries among the millions on Wikipedia.
但该研究只是对Wiki百科中几百万条内容中的42条进行了调查分析。
Since then the site has exploded, now including tens of millions of entries.
而且自从那时起这家网站迅速扩张，现在已经涵盖成百上千万条记录内容。
The new results suggest we should all take online info with a grain of salt.
这些最新的研究结果提示我们不要盲目轻信此类信息的真实性。
