User talk:Gtirouflet

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Hello, Gtirouflet, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Osteoporosis. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Trabecular bone score

Hello Gabriel, welcome to Wikipedia and apologies for not being somewhat clearer about my decision to remove mention of the trabecular bone score on the osteoporosis page. I am aware of the clinical need for an objective marker for bone microarchitecture, and the TBS looks very promising. However, as an encyclopedia we must be very cautious about presenting relatively new discoveries as the undisputed standard (especially when only 3000 physicians are using it), because sometimes new discoveries are not validated in the longer term - see WP:RECENTISM.

A more important point, perhaps, is that medical articles are closely governed by the guideline on suitable medical sources. This guideline discourages the use of "primary sources" (research studies and such) and favours review articles and textbook chapters. If the TBS catches on, such a source should become available fairly soon.

Can I finally refer you to our conflict of interest guideline? I note your position in MediMaps. You are free to write on Wikipedia about anything you like, but I would recommend that you strive actively to keep content completely neutral. JFW | T@lk 07:50, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]