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:You put in a personal attack previously regarding JFW. And you can't put YOUR viewpoint (or MINE) into wikipedia. It has to come from a reliable source. You might not agree with some of the stuff in wikipedia (and I certainly don't), but that doesn't mean you can just go and change it. If you want to contribute constructively I'd suggest reading [[WP:NPOV]] and the other main policies, and if you find your edits are being reverted you should discuss them on the talk page rather than just putting them in again (doing that will probably just get you banned). --[[User:Sciencewatcher|sciencewatcher]] ([[User talk:Sciencewatcher#top|talk]]) 17:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC) |
:You put in a personal attack previously regarding JFW. And you can't put YOUR viewpoint (or MINE) into wikipedia. It has to come from a reliable source. You might not agree with some of the stuff in wikipedia (and I certainly don't), but that doesn't mean you can just go and change it. If you want to contribute constructively I'd suggest reading [[WP:NPOV]] and the other main policies, and if you find your edits are being reverted you should discuss them on the talk page rather than just putting them in again (doing that will probably just get you banned). --[[User:Sciencewatcher|sciencewatcher]] ([[User talk:Sciencewatcher#top|talk]]) 17:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC) |
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I certainly have never put any personal attacks on you or anyone else on this site. I'm not sure where you are getting your information from. I added some information I thought was relevant and it was immediately removed and I reverted it back again. how does this constitute a personal attack. |
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Revision as of 17:48, 6 January 2009
NHS and UK
Hi Sciencewatcher, I think you are right generaly about NHS in UK, but for some reason the NICE guidelines say they are just for England and Wales. I wonder why, but I guess it is some thing about Scotland and Irish differences. RetroS1mone talk 03:01, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
- Ah, ok. I did look in the guidelines for something about England and Wales but I didn't find anything. But I must just not have looked hard enough. Yes, the NHS is for the entire UK but there are differences between the different countries, so maybe NICE only applies to part of the NHS for some reason. Anyway, I'll revert my edit unless you've already done it. --sciencewatcher (talk) 16:20, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
ANI
Please see this ANI about our favorite editor for the week, Dr. Anymouse. OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 16:31, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. --sciencewatcher (talk) 16:44, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Guido tagging again
Sorry i am bugging you about it, Guido is adding a tag again at Alternative names for chronic fatigue syndrome, i am getting tired from this. RetroS1mone talk 11:40, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Please refrain from making personal attacks. Fram (talk) 08:45, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- It was Guido who made the personal attack. I simply reflected it back at him, pointing out the obvious, that it is him (and not the potential new admin in question) who has the bad behaviour. Right now Guido isn't making any useful contribution to wikipedia - instead he is just sabotaging potential new admins. Have a look at his recent contributions. Something needs to be done. --sciencewatcher (talk) 15:24, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Chiropractic - criticism
Chiropractic remains controversial, with critics pointing out that it is not based on solid science and it's effectiveness has not been demonstrated for any medical condition with the possible exception of lower back pain.[1][2][3] The American Medical Association's Committee on Quackery labeled chiropractic an "unscientific cult" until they lost a lawsuit against the chiropractors in 1987 for restraint of trade.
Literature Synthesis
Thanks for your comment; I followed up at Talk:Chiropractic #Literature Synthesis. Eubulides (talk) 18:12, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks again; I followed up again at the same location. By the way, are you watching the Chiropractic article? If so, I'll stop notifying you of talk-page changes here. Eubulides (talk) 21:35, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, I'm watching it. Thanks. --sciencewatcher (talk) 21:50, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
Don't bother, I saw
Your comment was removed, but I read it. Posting more on that talk page is useless and feeds the drama. Something more useful could be found here (in case I haven't spammed it to you already). WLU (talk) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 17:28, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know about the draft RFC. Let me know if it becomes official and I'll give my support. You've pretty much got it spot on. You might want to mention that he has been blocked a gazzilion times before and each time he harrasses and argues with the admins who blocked him and doesn't admit his mistakes. After his last 1-day block he accused the admin of abusing his admin privs, and I think said the same thing when he was blocked for the month.
- And if anyone is interested in my deleted comment on Guido's talk page here it is. As usual he deleted it for being a "personal attack". What he doesn't realise is that it just looks bad for him when he deletes stuff he doesn't like. And even if it was a personal attack it would still be better to leave it up because then it shows the attacker in a bad light. In this case I just got too close to the ugly truth, and he didn't like it. --sciencewatcher (talk) 17:44, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- Uh-oh, THE TRUTH!!!! As wikipedians we should run from it. I fear the truth and for some reason every time someone tries to convey the truth to me, they get permablocked. Must be me :)
- If you want to help me with the assembly I would be most grateful. Everyone seems to be busy these days, and repairing the damage to CFS proper alone is a time sucker 'cause I have to check every single edit before I undo, source, modify, replace or delete. Thank God for full-text journals. WLU (talk) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 18:30, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- Wikipedia can take up all your free time if you let it. And you don't "have to" check every edit to CFS - if you don't, I'm sure someone else will eventually. Anyway I'm glad you do it, because it means I don't have to. I usually just take a quick look at any changes and check to make sure there isn't anything too outlandish. But I will try to add some more info to your RFC at some point. --sciencewatcher (talk) 20:43, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- It's tedious work, but it serves the valuable function of familiarizing myself with the topic such that I can meaningfully engage on the talk page. Plus, since the edits tend to be repetitive, I only have to read 'em once to get nigh-ulimited reverts out of it. Plus, I want to take some of the burden off of RetroS1mone, who has shouldered much of the unpleasant gruntwork on this. I'm happy to maintain an edifice built by her. WLU (talk) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 20:47, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- Wikipedia can take up all your free time if you let it. And you don't "have to" check every edit to CFS - if you don't, I'm sure someone else will eventually. Anyway I'm glad you do it, because it means I don't have to. I usually just take a quick look at any changes and check to make sure there isn't anything too outlandish. But I will try to add some more info to your RFC at some point. --sciencewatcher (talk) 20:43, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
What are you talking about
I did not readd any comment to any talk page. QuackGuru 04:08, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
I left a note at ANI in regard to your bad faith. Do you believe your comment was bad faith. QuackGuru 04:15, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
The editor who made 8 reverts was Levine2112. Each comment I made was different. You have some explaining to do. Why did you falsely accuse me of Constantly re-adding deleted comments to people's talk pages when I never did. Please see WP:HONESTY and WP:CIVIL. It is uncivil to make comments that are false. QuackGuru 07:00, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
- Never mind, I didn't actually check the comments you put on the talk page. I was just trying to help, giving some friendly advice. Next time I won't bother. Sorry for the inconvenience. --sciencewatcher (talk) 16:05, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
- I was going to check out your ANI posting about me, but I see you've already been blocked for a week. --sciencewatcher (talk) 16:08, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
cortisol for fibromyalgia
Hello. Please stop deleting my edits to fibromyalgia. The Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a well-known medical journal, and the articles are reviewed by experts. [1]. If you care to read the article itself you'd see it reviews and discusses a few RCTs of this treatment thereby reaching the conclusion I quoted. Mathityahu (talk) 16:46, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
- First of all, JCFS has been discontinued, so there are doubts as to whether it is a reliable source. And secondly if you actually read the article you will see that nowhere does it say that cortisol treatment has been proven to be effective for treating fibromyalgia. In fact the article doesn't discuss any RCTs for fibromyalgia, only for CFS (and those give differing results). So the conclusion does not match up with the content of the article. This seems to happen a lot with JCFS - their peer review didn't seem to be very good. Perhaps that is why the journal is now defunct? --sciencewatcher (talk) 18:26, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
- The need for cortisol has been shown not just by RCTs (which differ) but by reviewing various articles showing an HPA-axis abnormality that causes the low cortisol situation. If you go just by RCTs then the whole endocrinology specialty is flawed and should be stopped, yet they still treat adrenals/thyroid/sex with no RCTs. I still think this is a very good review of this topic and the conclusion in the case of a hormone deficiency does not necessarily need to be "proven" in RCTs, since it is agreed upon that if a deficiency is demonstrated, it should be treated. Since it is shown that the deficiency exists, using more "advanced" tests, and it is shown that the ACTH-stim-test is not reliable enough, it has therefore demonstrated a deficiency that needs to be treated, regardless of RCTs. Mathityahu (talk) 16:19, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- With CFS there is not even an agreement on the nature of the HPA axis abnormality. And even if there is low cortisol, giving cortisol treatment is not likely to help because the underactivation appears to be central (i.e. in the hypothalamus). To treat you need to reverse the hypothalamus underactivation, which means either drugs similar to antidepressants, or psychological therapy. However all of this is just my opinion and not really relevant. Anyway, to get back to the point, you can't put speculation into the article. For this info you have to use reliable reviews, and the review you put in was not reliable. If you disagree, feel free to post at the reliable sources noticeboard. --sciencewatcher (talk) 16:41, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- The standard treatment for central hypoadrenalism IS cortisol, ask any endocrinologist. In general when the insufficiency is of central origin, all target organs affected are given replacement therapy. Anyhow, if the review turns out to be reliable you'd have no further comments on it? Mathityahu (talk) 17:27, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- With CFS there is not even an agreement on the nature of the HPA axis abnormality. And even if there is low cortisol, giving cortisol treatment is not likely to help because the underactivation appears to be central (i.e. in the hypothalamus). To treat you need to reverse the hypothalamus underactivation, which means either drugs similar to antidepressants, or psychological therapy. However all of this is just my opinion and not really relevant. Anyway, to get back to the point, you can't put speculation into the article. For this info you have to use reliable reviews, and the review you put in was not reliable. If you disagree, feel free to post at the reliable sources noticeboard. --sciencewatcher (talk) 16:41, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- No. However I'm pretty sure it's not reliable - see my reasons in my first comment above. And regarding your comment above, I think you're talking about hypoadrenalism caused by a defect in one of the glands, which isn't the case for CFS or FMS. --sciencewatcher (talk) 17:48, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- In hypoadrenalism you can read about primary and secondary, and the article I cited, and myself, referred to the "secondary"(central) type, which is caused by a defect in either the hypothalamus or the hypophysis, which can cause an atrophy of the glands, however the origin of the defect is not the glands. In this case the treatment is the same as is primary, just encompasses all glands affected. Anyhow I'll check about the reliability of the article. Mathityahu (talk) 18:18, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- No. However I'm pretty sure it's not reliable - see my reasons in my first comment above. And regarding your comment above, I think you're talking about hypoadrenalism caused by a defect in one of the glands, which isn't the case for CFS or FMS. --sciencewatcher (talk) 17:48, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- In CFS and FMS there (appears to be) no defect in the hypothalamus or hypophysis, so it is not secondary hypoadrenalism. Most likely it is similar to stress: stress causes an increase in cortisol due to other parts of the brain signalling the hypothalamus to release more cortisol. But again this is irrelevant for the article as it is just our opinions/speculation. I've added a comment to the talk page on the fibromyalgia article regarding this review, as another user re-added it. --sciencewatcher (talk) 18:24, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Guido and psychosomatic medicine
Hi Sciencewatcher,
Based on your experience, could you include links, diffs and discussions - live or archived - that demonstrate POV-pushing by guido on psychosomatic medicine, placed in this section of the evidence page? The clearer the better obviously. If you have time, of course. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 17:09, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- Well in the end we managed to agree on a compromise where CFS is still mentioned, but the wording was changed. However as can be seen from the talk page Guido certainly didn't make it easy to come to a consensus. If you think it's worth it, you could point to a few of his entries in the talk page. But you might want to just concentrate on the worst stuff rather than dredging up everything, otherwise it might make him look like a victim. The stuff where he has been adding his own Nivel research is probably much more relevant (and I guess you've probably already added it). --sciencewatcher (talk) 18:00, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Guido den Broeder
Required notice to all parties involved with the Guido den Broeder ban/block/discussion: I have appealed the ban on his behalf at WP:RFAR. Cosmic Latte (talk) 19:20, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Do you have nothing better to do
Do you have nothing better to do???? I certainly do!! However highlighting the fact that Jacob de Wolff is editing medical articles that may be used as reference by the general public when he has been before the GMC for very, very serious issues is in the public interest. I have copied below the latest from Margaret Williams with regard to ME/CFS. No I don't have time for wiki nonsense, I do have a real life to live.
Will you consider the below, are you capable of no POV to use such an anal wiki acronym?
A NICE Conundrum?
Margaret Williams
30th December 2008
A NICE conundrum seems to have presented itself,
which the Judge in the Judicial Review of the NICE
Clinical Guideline on “CFS/ME” may require NICE to
explain for the benefit of straight-thinking folk who
cannot readily understand such brain-teasers.
Straight-thinking folk know that NICE is funded by
the UK Department of Health.
These straight-thinking folk also know that the NICE
Guideline on “CFS/ME” (CG53) recommended as the
primary intervention only behaviour modification,
together with incremental aerobic exercise (cognitive
behavioural therapy / CBT and graded exercise
therapy / GET) for a disorder that NICE’s own
paymaster accepts is a neurological disease, this
having been confirmed once again in Hansard by the
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department
of Health, Lord Darzi, on 2nd June 2008.
It seems remarkable indeed that people unfortunate
enough to be stricken with a neurological disease
should not be permitted by NICE to be adequately
investigated, but straight-thinking folk also know
that NICE claims that its recommendations for CBT
and GET in its Guideline are based on the very best
evidence-base, which must surely re-assure these
straight-thinking folk that they will be receiving the
best possible management of their life-destroying
disease.
But here’s the conundrum: NICE’s own paymaster
(i.e. the Department of Health) is on record as
stating – in writing – that it holds no evidence that
the interventions recommended by NICE in CG53
actually work in restoring the return to work (this
being the underlying purpose of the recommended
management interventions).
This was revealed when the Department of Health
was asked about the recommendations set out in the
NHS Plus National Guideline – which the Department
itself notably funded -- that was published in
October 2006, (“Occupational Aspects of the
Management of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A
National Guideline” in which Wessely School
members Professors Trudie Chalder, Peter White and
Michael Sharpe were instrumental), the
recommendations in that Guideline being the same
recommendations that were adopted by NICE in its
Guideline of August 2007.
Crucially, both Guidelines were based on the same
“evidence-base”: of six Wessely School studies,
three were co-authored by Trudie Chalder and one
was co-authored by Peter White. In the NHS Plus
Guideline, the Wessely School authors made inflated
claims for the efficacy of CBT/GET in returning people
with “CFS/ME” to gainful employment (“CBT and GET
have been shown to be effective in restoring the
ability to work”), but a US systematic review of the
“evidence-base” had reported that “No specific
interventions have been proved to be effective in
restoring the ability to work” (SD Ross et al: Arch
Intern Med 2004:164:1098-1107).
The key fact here is that the NHS Plus Guideline
cited the Ross systematic review as its own
evidence-base.
An inquiry was therefore made of the DoH how such
divergent conclusions could be drawn from the same
systematic review of the same publications --- one
conclusion by Ross et al and the exactly opposite
conclusion by the Wessely School. In the light of
such an obvious dichotomy, the DoH was asked a
simple and direct question: “Does the Department
agree with the statement that cognitive behavioural
therapy and graded exercise therapy have been
shown to be effective in restoring the ability to work
in those (with ME/CFS) who are currently absent from
work?”
On 6th June 2008 the written response from the DoH
was unequivocal: “The Department does not hold any
data that support this claim”.
So here we have a situation in which the Department of Health (which funds NICE and which funded the NHS Plus Guideline) is on record as stating that it has no data to support the claims made by both the NICE Guideline and the NHS Plus Guideline.
If the Department itself holds no data showing that
CBT/GET are in fact effective, where is this data?
Does it actually exist, or is it merely a contrived
“evidence-base” created by the Wessely School,
whose vested interests in claiming its efficacy cannot
be denied?
Regarding the obvious and serious conflicts of
interest of the Wessely School in relation to the NHS
Plus Guideline, on 23rd December 2008 a remarkable
revelation was made – in writing – by Dr Ira Madan,
Director of Clinical Standards, NHS Plus (who, with
Wessely and Chalder, is based at Kings College):
“The Department of Health have (sic) asked me to
investigate your concern that one of the guideline
development group members, Professor Trudie
Chalder, and the two external assessors, Professor
Michael Sharpe and Professor Peter White, had
conflicts of interest whilst involved in the production
of the guideline. I can confirm that I was aware of
the potential for competing interests that you have
stated. The roles that Professor White, Professor
Sharpe and Professor Chalder have undertaken for
the agencies and companies that you stipulate (i.e.
the medical insurance industry) were in the public
domain prior to the publication of the NHS Plus
guideline. I am content, as the Director of that
guideline, these potential competing interests did
not in any way influence the synthesis of the
evidence or the guideline recommendations”.
As straight-thinking folk will recall, the NHS Plus
Guideline states “No conflicts of interest declared”,
yet Dr Ira Madan is here acknowledging the existence
of these Wessely School conflicts of interests, but
stating that she is “content” about the situation, as
people already knew about them.
In the Wessely School world of NHS Plus, two
researchers were allowed to sit in judgment on their
own publications, with the permission of Dr Ira
Madan. They were not required to make
conflict-of-interest declarations. This is not
peer-review as the rest of the scientific world
understands it.
Notably, the same people (Chalder, Sharpe and
White) who were involved with the production of the
NHS Plus Guideline (where they declared no conflict
of interests) did declare and list very serious
conflicts of interest in the MRC PACE trial
documentation: "PDW has done voluntary and paid
consultancy work for the Departments of Health and
Work and Pensions and legal companies and a
re-insurance company. MCS has done voluntary and
paid consultancy work for government and for legal
and insurance companies. TC has done consultancy
work for insurance companies, is the author of
Coping with Chronic Fatigue published by Sheldon
Press and co-authors Overcoming Chronic Fatigue
with Mary Burgess published by Constable and
Robinson."
( http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2377/7/6 ).
This is remarkably different from what the
Department of Health confirmed in relation to the
NHS Plus Guideline – in writing – on 20th November
2008: “I can confirm that the guideline contributors
gave written confirmation that they had no conflicts
of interest”.
What can explain such a marked discrepancy, and
why should a statement have been published saying
that no conflicts of interest exist when serious
conflicts of interests are undoubtedly involved?
Not only do we now have written evidence that (i)
the Department of Health holds no data that the
recommendations in both the NHS Plus Guideline and
in the NICE Guideline are in any way effective in
restoring the ability of people with ME/CFS to return
to work, and (ii) that two members of the DoH
(William Scott and Dr Ira Madan) have made
statements on the same issue that diametrically
oppose each other, but we also have written
evidence -- straight from Dr Madan at the
Department of Health -- illustrating how the normal
rules of independent peer review and conflicts of
interest are regularly suspended when it comes to
the “evidence-base” for CBT/GET in people with
ME/CFS.
Consequently, as Dr Madan has stated that the
Wessely School’s conflicts of interests did not make
any material difference, she is now being requested
to explain WHY the conflicts of interest she has
acknowledged exist were not recorded as required,
since conflicts of interest should be recorded to
enable people to make up their own mind whether or
not the conflicts matter. Such an important issue is
not up to Dr Madan to decide but is –or should be --
determined by the AGREE Instrument.
Even though it is in the public interest to publicise
that there is a potentially dangerous guideline in
circulation that was engineered by Wessely School
members whose conflicts of interest in respect of the
medical insurance industry are legion (and who have
no expertise in infection or in inflammation or in
immunology that underpin ME/CFS), the Judge will
not be considering the issues surrounding the NHS
Plus Guideline
It is, however, hoped that the Judge will require the
particular conundrum pertaining to NICE to be
explained so that straight-thinking folk can
understand it, namely, why NICE recommended
interventions for “CFS/ME” for which its own
paymaster (the Department of Health) has stated
that there is no supportive data. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.108.54.47 (talk) 09:52, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
- It's not appropriate to talk about wikipedia editors' personal lives. However even if an editor was barred by the GMC it wouldn't mean he couldn't edit wikipedia (and in this case, as I understand it, that didn't even happen).
- Regarding Margaret Williams: she mostly just rants about psychiatrists. As far as her comments about NICE go: let me give you my NPOV. CBT and GET do not help everyone, and are certainly not a cure-all. While they may help a lot of patients, they only result in full recovery for a small percentage. So both studies are probably correct: CBT/GET can restore the ability to work, it only does so in a minority of patients.
- And as for CFS being a neurological disease, that hasn't been proven. The classification is just that - a classification. --sciencewatcher (talk) 16:05, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
Fibromyalgia & SSRIs
Great job! You just blasted out a section with a ton of references. Now all those lousy fibromites will be placed on these meds and have all the wonderful side effects you rubbed out any evidence for. Score one for the Pharmaceutical industry! If you're not being paid by Eli Lilly, well...you're working for free.
Just so you know, the idea that there are no systematic reviews of the use of SSRIs in fibromyalgia is just plain wrong. You appear to have a fondness for PubMed. I suggest you key in Arnold LM [au] fibromyalgia with Review as you limiting factor and see where it takes you. 71.191.7.3 (talk) 21:42, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
- Feel free to improve it. As it was, the section was incomprehensible. I simply took the conclusions from what (appeared) to be the most authoratitive review. If there are better/newer reviews, please do update the text. As of the Goldberg review there were no systematic reviews, but perhaps that has changed. --sciencewatcher (talk) 23:06, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
NPOV sources
Hi SW, I've a question for ye. On Talk:Past_life_regression#Reliable_sources an anon posted a comment that The Skeptic's Dictionary should be qualified because it's not neutral. Sources don't have to be neutral, that I'm sure of, but I'm looking for where I can point yon anon to. Any suggestions? WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 13:50, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- I think WP:NPOV discusses this. Wikipedia doesn't just present neutral viewpoints, it presents different POVs in a NPOV manner. As long as the source is reliable and the viewpoint is at least a significant minority it should be fine. As far as past life regression, I imagine that the Skeptic's Dictionary presents the majority viewpoint. But there may be other, better sources anyway. Quackwatch is a reliable source - have a look at the wikipedia quackwatch page and it discusses this. Not sure if it talks about past life regression though. --sciencewatcher (talk) 16:09, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Request for comment on user
Hi Sciencewatcher some editors at Chronic fatigue syndrome have talked about banning me. That is a later step in a dispute process, but it can start with a request for comment about me and i think comments from outside are good. Here is the guidelines for an RfC when you are interested at that [2]. Thx, RetroS1mone talk 13:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- As I said on the CFS talk page, I don't think you should be banned. But I think you should take more notice of criticisms when people make valid points. Also, even if CFS is mainly caused by psychological factors (which I believe it is), that doesn't mean that CBT is a cure-all. It doesn't even help everyone, never mind cure them. Perhaps this is because many patients don't believe it will help them. Or maybe it's just that CBT isn't the best therapy for CFS because it makes a lot of false assumptions and doesn't have a good explanation for how psychological factors cause the physical changes in the brain and body which result in the symptoms of CFS. Anyway, the point is you need to stick to reliable sources, AND you need to make sure you aren't twisting those sources, or cherrypicking, to try and present a particular point of view. Wikipedia isn't "the truth", it is just the majority mainstream viewpoint plus discussion of significant minority viewpoints. No more, no less. --sciencewatcher (talk) 17:02, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
You asked, "Reverted to revision 262297812 by RetroS1mone; how come anon can keep doing this when page is still semi-protected?. (TW))" --> protection expired at 15:23 on 4 January 2009. The template is still in place (or will be until I remove it), but the article isn't actually protected. - Nunh-huh 16:23, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- removed the template. If an edit war erupts, you can ask for the article to be reprotected; it looks like a longer period of protection should be discussed. - Nunh-huh 16:26, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- I think this plus.net anon is just going to keep doing the same thing, and protection is probably the only solution. It can't be banned because it's using a dynamic ip. --sciencewatcher (talk) 16:30, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- I dropped a warning on his user page for this edit. There seems to be a lot of combative anti-science anonymous editors this new year. Meh. OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 17:09, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- I think this plus.net anon is just going to keep doing the same thing, and protection is probably the only solution. It can't be banned because it's using a dynamic ip. --sciencewatcher (talk) 16:30, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I am not quite sure how this is a personal attack, I added information which I saw as important and relative and it was immediately removed. This has happened several times and has always been reverted. If any offence was caused by my comments then I do apologize. But I thought I was allowed to make edits and amend things I see fit. Who is to say whose viewpoint is correct and whose is not? Anyway once again my sincere apologies for any harm caused. 87.112.79.76
- You put in a personal attack previously regarding JFW. And you can't put YOUR viewpoint (or MINE) into wikipedia. It has to come from a reliable source. You might not agree with some of the stuff in wikipedia (and I certainly don't), but that doesn't mean you can just go and change it. If you want to contribute constructively I'd suggest reading WP:NPOV and the other main policies, and if you find your edits are being reverted you should discuss them on the talk page rather than just putting them in again (doing that will probably just get you banned). --sciencewatcher (talk) 17:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
I certainly have never put any personal attacks on you or anyone else on this site. I'm not sure where you are getting your information from. I added some information I thought was relevant and it was immediately removed and I reverted it back again. how does this constitute a personal attack. Best Wishes 87.112.79.76
CFS psychological viewpoint
Also, perhaps it's your 8 years of research that's the reason behind your views being more pro-psychological than mine. Back when you first started your research, that would've been a more predominant view. My research started just over two years ago, I think...about a year after symptoms first started that nobody could explain. By then, the psychological view was in decline, particularly amongst Canadian doctors, and being debated much more heavily by UK doctors. The US still believed that it was psychological by that point, though I'm seeing a substantial shift there in recent literature as well. My impression is that most European doctors have always considered it physical, but I'm content to be disproven on that...I didn't exactly do a study on each country's doctors' viewpoints. :D --Rob (talk) 10:26, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- Actually, I didn't really look at any research on CFS for the first few years (there wasn't much around, and things haven't really improved much). Most of my research was into how the body and brain work, seeing that all the symptoms and abnormalities were typical of stress related illnesses, and noticing which factors consistently caused relapses and recovery in patients. So no, I haven't been brainwashed by Wessely, etc. --sciencewatcher (talk) 16:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
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