User talk:Clairvoidant

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I removed your recent additions to the amygdalin article, for several reasons. 1) sources used for medical claims need to comply with our guideline on sourcing for medical claims which specifically say we should not use primary studies to "debunk" secondary sources. In this case, it is clear that the medical consensus is that amygdalin/laetrile is not effective in cancer use, and we should not use primary sources in this way. 2) Our guideline on editing from a neutral point of view also has a clause on the relative weight any idea should be given on a topic; as no legitimate medical source believes amygdalin is efficacious in treating cancer, we should not give any weight to this viewpoint (indeed, it is a canonical example of cancer quackery). Yobol (talk) 17:48, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]