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== Water fluoridation controversy == | |||
== GodBlessYou2 == | |||
*{{al|Water fluoridation controversy}} | |||
RFK Jr. may belong in the article, but some people insist it has to be in a specific way, which results in lots of edit-warring recently. --] (]) 08:34, 26 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Not sure if this is the correct space for this. But why do we call it a "controversy"? There is no reasonable controversy to speak of when we're looking at water fluoridation. We don't call the antivaxxer movement part of a "vaccination controversy", or do we? The nicest terms I've seen used is "hesitancy", as in ]. I think anti-fluoridation cranks deserve the same treatment as anti-vaxxers. <small>Also, they're mostly the same people...</small> I'm thinking the tone should be more in line with ] or outright mention misinformation, like in ]. ]•] 12:53, 11 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Yes, deleting the "controversy" part would probably give a better article name. "Opposition to water fluoridation"? But that belongs on the talk page. --] (]) 14:08, 11 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::That would be a better name ] (]) 14:09, 11 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::Looks like there has been discussion on the talk page about this: I've moved the article to ]; parts of this article will have to be reworded. ] (]) 14:42, 29 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:See also ], which is teetering on the brink of an edit war. ] (]) 00:19, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
Would appreciate editor input with regards to these edits: | |||
Discussion is here: ]. ] (]) 09:21, 16 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:This is getting so tiring, a self-admitted ] editor pushing and pushing lab leak talking points on multiple articles. There are very good sources on this so writing good content is not hard. ] (]) 09:27, 16 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Pushing a partisan as fuck committee report is ]. I think we should be requiring MEDRS level sourcing on this given how politicised it is with people like Rand Paul pushing the conspiracy theories that leads to hyper-partisan committee reports. '']''<sup>]</sup> 10:13, 16 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
Hello, | |||
I am the person who made the edits in question. I am not a "self-admitted fringe editor," the link provided for that claim is to a talk page discussion from an entirely different user. | |||
I would like to present a succinct argument for my edits; | |||
1. The United States House of Representatives is not a Fringe source, nor is it a conspiratorial organization. | |||
2. Reports generated by the US House are not generally considered the "mere opinions" of those politicians who create them, they are generally considered, at the very least, not conspiratorial. (]) | |||
3. Testimony from a similar event, a US senate hearing, is presented in the paragraph above my proposed edit without any issue. | |||
{{userlinks|GodBlessYou2}} | |||
4. The edit which I revised, following feedback from other editors, includes secondary source reporting on the primary source, and presents criticism and negative reception of the report, so as to not unduly push one side. | |||
I just had to dramatically change or revert a number of this user's edits. | |||
5. The report in question was submitted by a bipartisan committee of Congressmen and Congresswomen. Some of the key points received bipartisan support. Other points had disagreement. It is not "hyper-partisan dog excrement." | |||
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6. The 500 page report contains mostly hard evidence, including photographs, emails, reports, transcribed sworn testimony, and subpoena testimony. It is not pure conjecture and opinions of the politicians authoring it, it is based on and provides evidence. | |||
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7. The question of "Was there US-funded gain of research in China" is not a question which requires scientific expertise to answer. It is not a scientific question, in the way that something like "What are the cleavage sites on a protein" would be. It is a logistical and budgetary question. Thus, the fact that the authors of this report are not scientists is irrelevant and, as the body which is in control of the budget, is exactly within their expertise. | |||
I'm afraid there is little regard for ] or other policies dealing with the promotion of pseudoscience and creationism. We may need to ask for arbitration enforcement if this behavior doesn't stop. | |||
8. Sources which disapprove of the study and respond to it negatively should absolutely be included. But the fact that some secondary sources disapprove of the study is not a reason to exclude it. ] (]) 21:51, 16 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
] (]) 18:02, 6 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:1. The US House of Representatives is full of non-experts touting conspiracy theories. Odd that you would think otherwise. | |||
:JPS, I realize you have a POV that you want to see reflected in the above articles, but these articles are precisely about issues around which there is controversy and lack of consensus. Your opinion that they are "fringe" does not mean that they are not notable issues and that the sources cited are not reliable. The threat of "arbitration enforcement" is also out of place. | |||
:2. Reports generated by the US House are representative of the members who produced them or sponsored their production. Since (1) is true, it is absolutely possible for reports from the US House to be problematic and not representative of the best and most reliable attestations to reality. | |||
:3.Testimony is only as reliable as the person giving the testimony. Many people giving testimony before Congress are unreliable. | |||
:4. If a source reports on a primary source with criticism and negative reaction, it may be that the primary source does not deserve ]. | |||
:5. The bipartisanship of a committee is irrelevant to whether the points in question are problematic. Just because a committee is bipartisan does not mean that the offending text is therefore beyond reproach or apolitical. | |||
:6. "Hard evidence" in the context of academic science needs to be published in relevant academic journal and subject to appropriate peer review. | |||
:7. "Gain of research" is obviously a typo, but illustrates the point well that expertise is needed to determine whether or not there is any relevant concerns about research funding. The report authors do not seem to have that expertise. Simply being called by Congress is not sufficient. | |||
:8. We have rules for exclusion as outlined in my response to point (4). | |||
:I think this response illustrates that, intentionally or not, you are functioning as a ] ]er. This is not allowed at Misplaced Pages. | |||
:] (]) 22:43, 16 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::1. Your opinion on the current members of the house is irrelevant. The US Congress is not a fringe source. See my example provided. | |||
::2. You just asserted the opposite of my point without any explanation. This isn't a refutation. | |||
::3. Unless you're arguing any specific testimony in the report is false, that is true, but irrelevant. | |||
::4. Secondary sources reporting on any topic will be both positive and negative, depending on their own biases. The presence of negative reviews is not dispositive to a source's inclusion. | |||
::5. The bipartisanship of the committee is completely relevant to the charge that it should be excluded because it is "hyper-partisan." | |||
::6. "Did the US fund gain-of-function research in China" is not a question which is scientific in nature. Scientific expertise in the field of gain-of-function research is not required to answer that question. | |||
::7. "Did the US fund gain-of-function research in China" is not a question which is scientific in nature. | |||
::8. See point 4. | |||
::And I do not appreciate being left on my talk page. Extremely inappropriate. ] (]) 02:39, 17 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::At the very least, it looks like this editor is coming in extremely hot based on the ] responses I'm seeing just above my reply to you. With the attitude I'm seeing, it looks like they're heading to the cliff where something at ] or an admin here acting under the COVID CT restrictions due to ], bludgeoning, etc. would be needed. Controversial topics are not the place for new editors to coming in hot while "learning the ropes" and exhaust the community, so this seems like a pretty straightforward case for a topic ban to address that. ] (]) 22:55, 17 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::I directly addressed or refuted the challenges levied against my points. In what way can you claim my responses are ]? | |||
:::Which of my comments did I fail to substantively defend? I will be happy to do so now. ] (]) 23:31, 17 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::What is your goal here? ] (]) 01:40, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::I'm trying to have the rules, policies, and guidelines, applied. | |||
:::::The source I've been trying to cite very clearly does not violate ] or ]. A branch of the US government cannot, in any meaningful way, be called "Fringe" as defined by WP:FRINGE, nor can the reports of it be considered "Unsubstantial," as defined by WP:UNDUE. | |||
:::::Yet, so long as 2 people disagree with source, more specifically, personally disagree with the findings or have a personal vendetta against its authors, it does not matter that my edit is perfectly legitimate and rule-abiding, it will be removed as "Against the consensus." | |||
:::::Which is not inherently bad, I'm willing to change the edit in response to criticism. But, despite my many efforts to compromise or edit the change, change the wording, add context, add secondary sources, those in opposition refuse to hear any compromise or even provide any constructive criticism. | |||
:::::There are parts of the article which neither side disagrees are, are as matter of pure fact, incorrect. However, I'm unable to change them, because one side will not approve any source that I use. | |||
:::::I'm making my case here because I feel I've reached an impasse where the current consensus refuses to listen to any reasonable changes, or any changes at all, even to statements everyone has agreed are just factually wrong. ] (]) 02:31, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::A bunch of politicians certainly can be ]. In every country politicians are known to spout the most arrant nonsense, especially when it comes to science. The burgeoning antiknowledge movement in the USA as exemplified by the current incident is just another example of this. That we have editors signed-up to the same agenda trying to bend Misplaced Pages that way, is a problem. As always, the solution is to use the ]. ] (]) 03:53, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::I mean . While it doesn't deal that much with the science, I'm fairly sure there is probably some science nonsense in it, and there are far worse reports. Then there is ] which again mostly not dealing with science AFAIK, did deal with it enough to result in this . While not from the house, there was also the infamous ] demonstrating that even US federal government agencies aren't immune to publishing nonsense due to political interference. 05:28, 18 December 2024 (UTC) ] (]) 05:28, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::::New user has absolute faith in something that is clearly not a reliable source and insists on including it. This is a ] issue and a topic ban would be a good idea. --] (]) 10:16, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::Agreed. We've had more competent editors receive indefs for pushing ] in this topic area. '']''<sup>]</sup> 11:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::::I like that you decided to pull out wikipedia articles which contain, by your own words "far worse reports." Wouldn't the fact these "Worse" reports are still allowed in the articles be evidence for my point? If worse sources are still allowed in under the rules, why would this "better" source not be? ] (]) 18:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::This reply I think best sums up what I have to work with; it is the consensus of other editors that the US Congress is a secret, fringe, conspiratorial group which is secretly manufacturing fake evidence and putting out false reports to prevent the REAL TRUTH from getting out to true believers. | |||
:::::::And I'M the one labeled the conspiracist for disagreeing. ] (]) 18:12, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::::Nobody said "secret". That group has been quite openly anti-science for decades. See ]. --] (]) 09:04, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::{{tq|I directly addressed or refuted the challenges levied against my points.}} No. You responded. However, in your response, you have displayed the inability or unwillingness to understand what was being explained to you. That's IDHT. You continuing to claim that {{tq| A branch of the US government cannot, in any meaningful way, be called "Fringe"}} shows that you're missing the point. As does the repetition that {{tq|nor can the reports of it be considered "Unsubstantial," as defined by WP:UNDUE.}} even though an explanation has been given on how these reports absolutely can be completely biased, politically motivated, and from a "quality of the source" perspective - be it scientifically, journalistic or just factually -, it is deemed unreliable. ]•] 13:00, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::{{tq|A branch of the US government cannot, in any meaningful way, be called "Fringe"}} | |||
:::::There has been no substantive explanation of this. Only repeated assertions that it is true, and then an expression of an author's personal dislike for Republicans or the government in general. That is not an explanation as to why the statement, an objective statement, is true. | |||
:::::{{tq|even though an explanation has been given on how these reports absolutely can be completely biased, politically motivated, and from a "quality of the source" perspective - be it scientifically, journalistic or just factually -, it is deemed unreliable}} | |||
:::::Nobody is arguing that the article should be replaced by this report. However, the US Congress's position is very clearly a prominent position. And again, I know you personally believe the US Congress can't be trusted, but WP:UNDUE actually says "Neutrality requires that mainspace articles and pages fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by reliable sources, in proportion to the prominence of each viewpoint in those sources." The US Congress's viewpoint is a significant one, and even if you dislike the original source, there are dozens of reliable secondary sources reporting on it. ] (]) 18:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::You're blatantly wrong here. Politicians saying "science is wrong" is as FRINGE as it gets. ] (]) 18:51, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::A question of how much money, if any, was allocated to a certain project, is not a scientific question. ] (]) 18:57, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::::We define what is ] based on the ]. A politician with no expertise in medicine is a terrible source for anything related to diseases, and therefore carries no weight in discussion over whether a particular position is ] or not. There are mainstream politicians who deny evolution; that does not change the fact that that denial is a fringe perspective among the best available sources on the topic. Misplaced Pages's purpose, as an encyclopedia, is not to be an arbitrary reflection of what random politicians believe or what the gut feeling of random people on the street might be; it's to summarize the very best sources on every topic (which, in most cases, means academic sources with relevant expertise.) Keep in mind that ] doesn't mean that we omit a position entirely; in an article ''about government responses to COVID'', we could reasonably cover the opinions of lawmakers who contribute to that response, even if their opinions are medically fringe. But our ''core'' articles on the topic will be written according to the conclusions of the parts of the medical establishment that have relevant expertise; the gut feelings of politicians with no relevant expertise have no weight or place there at all. --] (]) 04:46, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::{{tq| A politician with no expertise in medicine is a terrible source for anything related to diseases}} | |||
:::::::::'''The question of 'was there US-funded gain of function research in China" is not an epidemiological question, and is not remotely scientific in nature. ''' | |||
:::::::::You're just not addressing why this question is scientific. You're just skipping past that part. Why does an Epidemiologist have to testify as to the US budget? What would they possibly know about Congressional funding? ] (]) 07:02, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::::::The question what constitutes 'gain of function research' is very much is a scientific question and thus by extension the question "was there US-funded gain of function research in China" is also a scientific one. '']''<sup>]</sup> 07:31, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::::That's a nonsense point. By that logic, the JFK assassination report could not be used to support the claim that JFK died unless a journal by the American Coroner's Association agreed with it. ] (]) 18:55, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::::: quotes Nicholas Evans as saying "{{tq|No one knows exactly what counts as gain-of-function, so we disagree as to what needs oversight, much less what that oversight should be}}". Evans specializes in biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. | |||
::::::::::::It is a subject of active debate within the scientific community. Therefore politicians are out of their depth talking about whether there was "US-funded gain of function research in China" when scientists don't agree what that is. '']''<sup>]</sup> 02:16, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::::::I originally also had an edit which which was also removed. ] (]) 19:33, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::First off, you don't {{tq|know}} anything about what I {{tq|personally believe}} about anything. Looks like you're both poisoning the well and mistaking me for jps... Second, and, of course, more relevant here: a report sponsored by members of Congress is not "The Congress's viewpoint". Thirdly, even if they had an assembly where they discussed the matter and voted or whatever it would take to make something "The Congress's viewpoint", it's questionable if whatever conclusion they came to would be deemed a reliable source and IF that warrants being included in an encyclopedic article about the subject they discussed. Explaining it further would just be repeating what I and others have said before. About your other point of there being articles about other, worse, reports. These reports and their coverage are reliable sources for the articles that talk about the reports themselves. The fact that these have been covered by secondary sources means they are notable enough to get their own articles, not that it's a reliable source. What you are asking for is more akin to using the "findings" of the report mentioned by Hob Gadling on something like ] or other fetal tissue research related article. ]•] 14:14, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::{{tq|The fact that these have been covered by secondary sources means they are notable enough to get their own articles}} | |||
:::::::This report has also been covered by reliable secondary sources. Why then can this source not at least be mentioned? ] (]) 19:03, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::::Notability is not the same as reliability. {{tq|The fact that these have been covered by secondary sources means they are '''notable''' enough to get their own articles}}, it doesn't mean they are reliable to be used as a source of information in articles other than the ones about themselves. That was the whole point I was trying to make above, please read again. ]•] 19:23, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::If the fact that they were covered by secondary sources doesn't make them reliable, then you never addressed my original point, which is why are other House Reports considered reliable, but this one isn't? ] (]) 19:32, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::::::VdSV9's last remark is related to ]. Article about wackos talking about scientific subjects: Sources talking about wackos talking about scientific subjects are OK. Article about scientific subjects such as this one: Sources talking about wackos talking about scientific subjects are not OK. You need to understand that context matters. --] (]) 08:17, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
{{tq|A branch of the US government cannot, in any meaningful way, be called "Fringe"}} ]. If it can happen once in an obvious fashion, it can happen again. Ours is not the job to decide it happened, but when ] identify it happening, we aren't in the business of declaring categorically, as though there is something magical about the US Government, that the reliable sources can't possibly have identified something fringe-y being promoted within the hallowed halls of the US Government. ] (]) 19:06, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Regarding the ], ] is a clearly a notable author and astrophysicist. While I point to a particular article that he has self published See ]: "Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications." I'm sure that others hold the same opinion and it is likely that a secondary source could be found, but that's not necessary and I don't have the time to pursue it. Instead of reducing material in the article, your efforts would be better spent adding a source in place of the Haisch post if you feel it is a better source. Actually, it's my understanding that he does not believe in UFO's but is, in this article, simply playing devil's advocate regarding why the claims of UFO sightings cannot be completely ruled out by the Fermi Paradox. | |||
:It seems that we have to have this conversation about conspiracism in the US house of representatives regularly. There's a similar conflict at ] because some of the conspiracists in the US house believe the CIA is covering up Russian involvement in the proposed syndrome for vague, poorly defined, reasons. ] (]) 19:20, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Regarding the ] edit, I think it very rude of you to accuse me of "Creationist POV-pushing" simply because I add a cite to Haisch's "The Purpose-Guided Universe: Believing in Einstein, Darwin, and God," a book by a highly qualified astrophysist who, very pertinently, wrote his book to address the fine-tuned universe issue in a way that denies creationism yet argues for the existence of God. FYI, perhaps you disagree, but I consider the accusation of "creationism" to imply a belief in a literal interpretation of the Genesis and six day creation myth. I also think it's rude to call someone a creationist unless they describe themselves that way. | |||
*Yes, the key thing to understand about ] is that it is about where a view stands in relation to the ''best sources'' on the subject; it's not a measure of what random people think or what arbitrary big names on unrelated topics believe. This is one of the oldest elements of our fringe policies (since a lot of the policy was hammered out in relation to the creation-evolution controversy, where there very much was a significant political structure devoted to pushing fringe theories aobut it); just because a particular senator doubts evolution doesn't make that perspective non-fringe. Members of the US government are only reliable sources on, at best, the opinions of the US government itself, and even then they'd be a ] and often self-interested source for that, to be used cautiously. The ] on eg. COVID are medical experts, not politicians (who may have an inherent motivation to grandstand, among other things) with no relevant expertise. Something that is clearly fringe among medical experts remains fringe even if every politician in the US disagrees. --] (]) 04:46, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
*:1. There are findings which are non-scientific which the report would be used to prove, namely whether or not the US government funded gain-of-function research in China. This is not a scientific claim, and the US government has the absolute most authority on that issue. There is no reason any given medical expert would be qualified at all to talk about this, as it is a logistical and budgetary question, not a scientific or medical one. | |||
*:2. There are also findings which are bipartisan. That is, they aren't just the opinions of one or two, or even an entire party's worth of politicians. They are agreed upon by all members of the committee, Republican and Democrat. That is drastically and categorically different than trying to cite one politician's personal opinion as fact. | |||
*:3. The remaining claims are still substantial, even if you or a large majority of people disagree with them, as a documentation of a significant viewpoint as required under ]. As paraphrased: | |||
*:{{tq|If a viewpoint is held by a significant minority, then it should be easy to name prominent adherents}} | |||
*:Clearly the US government is "prominent," even if you believe they're secretly a cabal of anti-scientific fringe conspirators who seek to manipulate the fabric of reality to hide the REAL truth. ] (]) 05:04, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
*::It is not a usable source. You need to drop the ]. ] (]) 05:07, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
*:::Yes. You've made your opinion abundantly clear. But you have never once provided a valid reason, other than "more people agree with me, so our interpretation of the rule wins." | |||
*:::I have, at every turn, proven how the source fits the rules. You are overturning the rules in favor of your own, politically motivated consensus. ] (]) 06:59, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
*::::You have, at every turn, proven that you do not understand the rules. Opposing pseudoscience is not politically motivated just because the pseudoscience is politically motivated. --] (]) 09:15, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
*:::::I have consistently proven how my edits fall within the rules. The response has been "We interpret the rules differently and we have a majority, so what's actually written means what we say it does." ] (]) 22:41, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
*::::::No, that has not been the response. You do not understand the response or you do not want to understand it. I suggest you should first learn the Misplaced Pages rules in a less fringey topic. --] (]) 08:17, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:'']'' Is one of Ronson's best works and illustrative of exactly why placing blind faith in the judgements of the government or military on scientific matters is tantamount to intellectually throwing in the towel and giving up on reality. ] <small><small>]</small></small> 16:47, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Regarding the ] edit you reverted, I did not even introduce new sources. I simply fixed two incomplete citations then corrected the sentences citing these sources to make them actually reflect what the sources were saying. If you believe I did not correctly summarize these sources, ''fix my summary'', but do not revert to the badly summarized content. Don't you have something constructive to contribute? Why are you following me around to undue my contributions? Please ] and try to work with other editors to build up articles rather than trim them down to some POV which best suits you. You are not the editor-in-chief or final arbiter of reliable sources. -] (]) 19:22, 6 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::I find this logic hilarious when just 4 years ago good-faith editors get banned for not trusting the government sources or trying to exclude the government as a source on lockdowns and social distancing. Go and read the discussion boards on social distancing from 2020, as I just have. I hope you understand that WP's new opinion of "Government primary sources cannot be used," was literally the exact opposite just four years ago. ] (]) 19:01, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::That's a Strawman. No one is saying that a political report from the legislative branch and the output of public health agencies like the CDC are the same thing. Please try to engage with the arguments others are actually making. ] (]) 19:54, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::Amongst other secondary sources, I've been trying to cite to the DHHS report about EcoHealth. How is that a strawman to point out that the CDC is a completely valid source, but I have been prevented from adding a DHHS report? Do you know what a strawman is? ] (]) 22:43, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::It feels like we're dealing with a ] here. You've been warned about ] sanctions and you don't seem to be ]. How do you want to proceed? ] (]) 20:25, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::{{tq|You've been warned about WP:AE sanctions and you don't seem to be accepting what others are telling you}} | |||
::::::I haven't edited anything since being warned. I've complied and haven't tried to edit the article or revert my changes. Don't know what you're threatening here. | |||
::::::{{tq|How do you want to proceed?}} | |||
::::::I would like the parts of the article which are demonstrably false, and supported by perennially approved secondary sources '''other than''' the house report and reporting thereto, rectified. Such as the DHHS barring EcoHealth from receiving funds (Other DHHS reports are cited in the article, and the article still says that EcoHealth was cleared from wrongdoing). | |||
::::::I would of course think at least ''some'' mention of the house report, even if negatively, even if only to highlight the secondary source's reception of it, is worthy. But I believe at this point I think some editors are too unwilling to compromise to consider that but, I'll throw it out there. ] (]) 21:40, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::Okay. Well, if you're willing to ], I'm sure we can happily help you find other places at this massive project to invest your volunteer time. Maybe give it six months and see if the landscape has changed. After all, there is ]. ] (]) 20:21, 21 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::{{tq|I haven't edited anything since being warned. I've complied and haven't tried to edit the article or revert my changes. Don't know what you're threatening here}}. | |||
:::::::Conduct on noticeboards and talk pages is actionable by ] in ]s. '']''<sup>]</sup> 23:10, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
*BabbleOnto raise valid point: question of US government funding allocations to gain of function research not fall under definition of scientific inquiry and is squarely in purview of US Congress. Dismising report from bipartisan committee undermine the "proportional representation of significant viewpoints" required by WP:NPOV. ] (]) 07:23, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::The Haisch source is fringey as fringe gets. SPS only applies if he were discussing his scientific work that had previously been published in a reliable third-party publication. Here he's giving an opinion on something that has nothing to do with his prior published scientific work, or scientific work at all for that matter. And the book you cite pretty much only shows up on creationist or fringe websites. I'm also not sure what you added it in to cite. Also, I have to note, we don't "build up" articles for the sake of doing it. They'd get prohibitively long and be filled with all types of undue cruft. Indeed, the opposite is true. Misplaced Pages has a POV and that's the POV expressed by mainstream reliable sources. ] (]) 19:49, 6 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
*:I stated above that the question ow what constitutes 'gain of function research' is very much is a scientific question and thus by extension the question "was there US-funded gain of function research in China" is also a scientific one. There has been no substantive rebuttal of what I wrote above. Politicians are out of depth discussing it while scientists don't even agree what it is. '']''<sup>]</sup> 10:28, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
*::Actually, the controversy of what constitutes 'gain of function research' intersection of science, ethics and public policy, but that is a moot point because we have public testimony from NIH deputy director ] in US congress, which I think is useable in the article. ] (]) 11:54, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
*:::I originally had that testimony in the article but it was . ] (]) 18:57, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
*::::and removing it was the correct course of action. '']''<sup>]</sup> 05:24, 4 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
*:::Uh no. If it's not agreement upon what 'gain of function research' actually is then it would be wildly undue to be referencing government reports, regardless of who is quoted, that it has happened. '']''<sup>]</sup> 05:22, 4 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
*::By this logic the entire article would need to be rewritten, because currently the article '''does''' present a concrete, discrete definition of what gain-of-function research is. If you're seriously claiming there is no consensus as to what gain-of-function research is then the article will need to be rewritten to reflect that. Because currently here is the first line of the article | |||
*::{{tq|Gain-of-function research (GoF research or GoFR) is medical research that genetically alters an organism in a way that may enhance the biological functions of gene products.}} | |||
*::Are you suggesting this is not actually the consensus as to what GoF research is, but just one scientist's opinion of what it is? If so, the article would have to be changed to reflect that. In fact the entire article would have to be rewritten to reflect your claim. ] (]) 19:02, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
::The "controversy" and "lack of consensus" you are claiming exist are themselves ] claims that are promulgated, mostly, by religious believers, ufologists, and pseudoscientists. Your edits seek to promote these fringe viewpoints as being equally footed (e.g. your appeal to Haisch as a "highly qualified astrophysist". Be aware that we are intimately familiar with Haisch and his claims at this website: ]). Trying to claim some level of mainstream acceptance for these ideas is exactly the problem with your edits. ] (]) 19:51, 6 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
Not sure about the new edits. My watchlist has never been so strange as in the last 12 hours. ] ] 10:09, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::I reverted a contribution https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Creation%E2%80%93evolution_controversy&diff=639953971&oldid=639951952 by this editor that should be taken into account if discretionary sanctions are on the menu. -] (]) 21:26, 6 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
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:Do you have specific concerns? Looking over the changes, nothing ''jumped out'' at me as horrifically problematic, but I'm not reading that closely. ] (]) 10:17, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | ||
::Just wanted a sanity check. :) Also seems ok to me. ] ] 11:09, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Sorry if any edits were problematic! I am interested in strange things. It's a bit awkward writing the... plot? When it's something like this, but it's unavoidable. ] (]) 05:42, 21 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Quite the rabbit hole I just went down with this one. I've added it to my watchlist. ] (]) 10:18, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
== "Starving" cancer == | |||
:::::The bigger problem was that he consumed a great deal of editor time at ], had a major case of ], and appears to be incapable or unwilling to understand, never mind abide by our policies because of their zealous ideological stance. If he/she is continuing his disruptive behavior on other articles, then it's clear that ] and ] apply. Maybe a discretionary indef would save both us and him/her a world of anguish. I just don't see a ray of hope here based on their interactions with other editors at the talk page on Creation-evolution controversy. ] (]) 22:47, 6 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
* {{al|Warburg effect (oncology)}} | |||
::::::I see. I wasn't aware there was prior history involved. I only came to notice their recent edits from checking out the FTN yesterday. Maybe a creationism/evolution TB might do the trick? ] (]) 23:02, 6 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
Some new accounts/IPs seem unhappy that the "Quackery" section of '']'' is being cited to call out the quackery in play here. More eyes needed. ] (]) 17:53, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== Thomas N. Seyfried == | |||
:::::::That would be a good start. It's worth considering. ] (]) 00:27, 7 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
] is a biochemistry professor who probably passes ] who seems mainly notable for going on podcasts to tell cancer patients to reject chemotherapy in favour of going on a keto diet. Gorski on Science Based Medicine did a good article on him and his claims , which in light of current RfC alas looks unusable. The article | |||
:: The references recently added to ] look rather dodgy and coatracky. Certainly, if a scientist has notable fringe views, these should be discussed, sourced to independent sources with weight as appropriate. But also the subject's ''scientific'' work should remain the focus of the article. ] (]) 00:17, 7 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
has been subject to persistent whitewashing attempts by IPs (one of which geolocates to where Seyfried works) and SPAs, and additional eyes would be appreciated. ] (]) 04:00, 22 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:I think he's ''notable'' for doing well-cited work on diet/metabolism and (mainly brain) cancer in mouse models, some of which on a quick glance seems reasonably mainstream (see eg ''Annual Reviews'' research overview {{doi|10.1146/annurev-nutr-013120-041149}}), but notorious for attempting to translate that early research (at best prematurely) into medical advice for people with cancer. We should probably avoid mentioning the issue at all, as none of the sources (either his or those debunking it) fall within the medical project's referencing standards for medical material. ] <small>(])</small> 12:16, 23 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::People are looking up Seyfried specifically because he is coming onto podcasts to make these claims , and if we omit them then Seyfried looks like a distinguished scientist giving mainstream advice, when he is saying things against the medical consensus. I think it would be better to delete the article than to omit this information. ] (]) 15:03, 23 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::I fear the problem is that he genuinely ''is'' a distinguished scientist, even if he is currently talking in areas in which he appears not to be qualified. ] <small>(])</small> 16:33, 23 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::Agree with this statement in general; it should be a guideline somewhere. ] (]) 11:33, 9 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
== Modern science and Hinduism == | |||
:::Honestly I don't even see how Barr meets any notability claims. He hasn't published a significant scientific paper since the 80s and his work amounted to nothing. Today searches bring up nothing but religious and fringe websites at best where he gives an interview. His books are limited print with no notable reviews. And I know Google hits aren't a good argument for inclusion but that's when we're debating tens of thousands of hits. Barr doesn't even seem to have a single page to himself before random Stephen Barrs start popping up completely unrelated to the subject of the article. Is this person notable? ] (]) 00:38, 7 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
I presume that new article ] could do with a thorough check. ] (]) 09:07, 22 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::: Barr's work on grand unified models is extremely well-known. He passes ], with 30 scientific papers cited more than one hundred times on Google scholar, and ] as a fellow of the American Physical Society. So he is notable as an academic. I don't know what the appropriate weight is to assign his personal views on religion, but I suspect it is not much. In particular, I object most strongly to the recently-added "references" at the article. They portray the subject in a false light, as a crackpot, and arguably violate ] and other guidelines. ] (]) 12:26, 7 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:Despite the head note about not confusing it with Vedic science, most of it seems to be about Vedic science. And quite apart from anything else, most of the body of the article seems to be a paraphrase of reference 8. The headings are pretty much identical. ] (]) 09:36, 22 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:The same editor has also started a draft at ] with some of the same content. ] (]) 11:04, 22 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::I boldy redirected to ] as an alternative to a ]. I judge maybe a half dozen sentences/ideas may be useful to incorporate over there. ] (]) 19:42, 22 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::Vedic science itself needs some serious work, particularly given the appropriation of the term by Hindutva. ] (]) 21:15, 22 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::Agreed. If nothing else, the creator has pointed out a gaping hole in our coverage. We need something along the lines of an article on ]. Maybe a spin-out from ] itself? ] (]) 22:31, 22 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::many religions use science apologism to justify faith. best to understand they are mostly means to justify religion to those insecure about it, but pseudoscience might be incorrect term of talking about it. | |||
:::::I don't mean to say that science proving hinduism right should be taken as a fact (def would break NPOV), but that we would also be wrong to dismiss the beliefs of a worshipper as "pseudoscience" when "religious faith" and "scientific apologism" would be the more correct term to describe this. ] (]) 23:51, 23 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::an example of an article section covering scientific apologism a bit better ] ] (]) 00:10, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::When there is a concerted effort to replace certain scientific disciplines with religious-inspired belief, that is pretty classic pseudoscience. There are plenty of pieces from respected scientists who are aware of the current political/religious arguments being proffered against scientific understanding within the context of Hindutva who call this kind of posturing "pseudoscience". Misplaced Pages need not shy away from this designation. ] (]) 23:44, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::What if Hindutva pushes n pseudoscientific positions but n+1 is not pseudoscientific, do we risk n+1 inheriting the posturing stink of the others? ] (]) 04:44, 30 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::::If Hindutva pushes a position that isn't pseudoscientific, then it shouldn't be discussed in a "Hindutva pseudoscience" article. ] (]) 10:18, 30 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::Would a "Hindutva pseudoscience" page focus on the pseudoscientific topics itself or how "Hindutva pseudoscience" is used for other other aims? ] (]) 04:43, 30 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::i dont know what hindutva pseudoscience would entail. just pointing out terminology for the phenomenon where some guy tries to argue their religion describes the germ theory/embryology/big bang/etc first before science is scientific apologism not pseudoscience. | |||
::::::pseudoscience is passing off a fringe topic as science. science apologism is bending religious words to match current theories to argue your god knew it first ] (]) 05:58, 30 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::The argument that ] or ] or any number of other ideas for which we have no scientific basis are actually "science" is proper pseudoscience. But "science apologism" is also pseudoscience especially in the context of arguments where there is claim that the particular religious idea predated the scientific context and was therefore privy to the evidence that led to later scientific developments. ] (]) 01:15, 31 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::I most of the unsourced puffery added on 21 November. Frankly though whether the article should exist at all should be examined; it might be ripe for AfD. <span style="font-family:Palatino">]</span> <sup>]</sup> 22:00, 23 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::The creator of the article had the username "HindutvaWarriors" until a bit over a week ago. ] (]) 21:24, 22 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Gonna add a reference section to the bottom of the article.] (]) 22:41, 25 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== The main paper promoting hydroxychloroquine as a Covid treatment has been withdrawn. == | |||
:::::If the criteria is that lax than I guess it is what it is. But given that criteria there should tens of thousands of articles on just about anyone who has published. #3 is particularly lax. Here's the list of fellows added to the APS just in 2014: http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm | |||
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04014-9 | |||
:::::Pick anyone on that list and plug them into google scholar. Out five I tried four of them were cited more than Barr though they, rightfully I'd say, don't have articles here. I'm having a hard time finding a paper of his that has been cited in the last 20 years and most cites are much, much older than that. As for his personal views on religion? Today at least, that's by far what he's best know for. He's written a book on the subject, given interviews and even has a substantial section about it on the front page of his personal website. I'd think those views should get at least some weight in his article. ] (]) 18:41, 7 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:::::Notability isn't temporary. I'm sure you'd have a tough time finding articles authored by Albert Einstein in the last 20 years too :-) But there is no serious debate that he passes the guideline for scientists. He has written an impressive number of papers cited in the hundreds. Presumably, that is a high citation area, but even so he clearly passes C1. However, unless he is specifically notable for his views on religion, the article's very existence relies on WP:PROF, so it seems to me that it would be more in keeping with that guideline to emphasize his role as a scientist rather than a Christian apologist. But I don't really know what the relevant guideline is for such things. ] (]) 19:12, 7 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
And now, ]. Ugh. ] (]) 15:32, 7 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:And the refusal to accept a consensus clearly and unambiguously established in the recent RfC at at ] continues. ] (]) 21:03, 11 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
I doubt this'll shut up the pro-fringe users, but now all of their "evidence" can be tossed outright. ] (]) 23:42, 22 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
Okay. Enough is enough. ]. ] (]) 17:32, 12 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
: Just to be clear, the paper was by the journal's co-owners. The word "withdrawn" is often associated with an action taken by a paper's authors, which is not the situation here. ] (]) 17:33, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Thank you for the clarification. ] (]) 17:41, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
:More forum shopping ... the guy simply ] and won't drop the ]. ] (]) 12:28, 19 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
No clue if it's a fringe therapy for autism or not... apparently theres at least one scientific article discussing it as a pseudoscience , but i can't really tell if it falls under that or not. ] (]) 20:09, 23 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Really wish you hadn't done that -- this had someone politely (if a bit much) going up dispute resolution processes to RFC and instead of getting external input to the question it aborted into rewarding the approach of snarking responses about toilets and holocaust and then banning the poster. Winds up nothing produced at the article or RFC conduct that could be held up as admirable. Now seems a shameful #fail at ], ], ], and effectively exemption for some on ], ], and ]. I will see what I can do. ] (]) 17:52, 22 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
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== David and Stephen Flynn == | ||
There is an ongoing effort at ] to remove or whitewash these individual's medical misinformation section. I believe additional eyes would be helpful on this page. --]<sub>]]</sub> 15:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
{{la|Rex 84}} | |||
:On the noticeboard Biographies of living persons I've requested help because this situation needs a review by neutral, experienced editors to ensure compliance with Misplaced Pages’s neutrality and verifiability guidelines. | |||
The only sources I can find for this are in fringe sources concerned that the government out to control us. Are there any reliable sources that discuss it? Thoughts? Thanks! - ] (]) 01:58, 9 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:The previous edits are one-sided, hence several attempts have been made to improve the neutrality of the section by adding balanced context and reliable sources to reflect differing perspectives. | |||
:I would very much support an AfD on this. ] (]) 13:40, 16 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:In the "careers" section, edits have repeatedly removed references to David and Stephen Flynn stopping collaboration with Russell Brand, implying continued support despite this not being true. | |||
::] to no particular conclusion. ] (]) 17:57, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:Specific concerns with the medical section include: | |||
:1. The section title “Medical Misinformation” is to make it sensational; hence, changed it into “Health Advice and Public Response” instead. | |||
:2. Peer-reviewed studies and mainstream media articles, were added for context but reverted without justification. | |||
:3. Efforts to clarify the Flyns’ acknowledgment of errors and removal of contentious content have also been ignored. ] (]) 17:09, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::I've started a convo on the article talk page. Please continue there. ] (]) 18:24, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
== RfC notification == | |||
Current text in the lede is: TCM is described as "largely just pseudoscience, with no rational mechanism of action for most of its therapies." Some editors think it is inappropriate to suggest that Traditional Chinese medicine is pseudoscience. There was a previous DR. See ]. | |||
{{articlelinks|Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns}} | |||
Hello everyone, there is an RFC that editors from this noticeboard may be interested in commenting on: ]. I added a quote instead of the and I proposed on the talk page if the quote is still not satisfactory it can be rewritten. Thank you for your feedback. ] (]) 02:18, 9 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:Thank you for this notice.--] (]) 17:56, 21 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::], please read the specific question for the RFC. ''Please note that this is not a discussion of whether TCM is pseudoscience, whether the source meets WP:MEDRS, or anything else like that; the question is whether the article even says what it is being used to say.'' ] (]) 18:52, 21 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
Some ] editing from an account with <1000 edits. I don't have time to engage with them further over the holiday (and I'm at 3RR on this article anyway). Other experienced editors are invited to take a look. Note I left on their user talk page to . Cheers, ] (]) 00:01, 25 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== Near-death studies == | |||
:You added a cite and I quoted it verbatim. If it's a fringe source, why did you add it? ] (]) 09:39, 25 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
{{articlelinks|Near-death studies}} | |||
::You quoted it selectively to highlight a caveat as though it were the central point of the piece. This looked an awful lot like ], as did your subsequent edits to the page. ] (]) 13:57, 25 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::Just noticed Turkheimer had this out in November: {{cite book|last=Turkheimer|first=Eric|chapter=IQ, Race, and Genetics|title=Understanding the Nature‒Nurture Debate|series=Understanding Life|publisher=Cambridge University Press|chapter-url=https://www-cambridge-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/core/books/understanding-the-naturenurture-debate/iq-race-and-genetics/BEE6D69A17DEBA6E87486A1830C31AD7?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark}} ](]) 18:20, 25 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== Cult whitewashing == | |||
The proposal of this article is that "near-death studies" as promoted by ] is an academic discipline in the same way that, say, ] may have been so considered in the past. I think this is way oversold and rather ]. In fact, I think that the claim that there is an academic "discipline" should be handled under the ] umbrella in the same way we handled reincarnation research. Redirect to ] might work well. Thoughts? | |||
] (]) |
See {{diff2|1265459461}}, {{diff2|1265464033}}, {{diff2|1265465049}} and {{diff2|1265465790}}. ] (]) 02:30, 27 December 2024 (UTC) | ||
:I've reverted them. I see long-term Grail SPA {{Ping|Creolus}} whitewashed the Abd's article two months ago so I just reverted them as well. ] (]) 02:55, 27 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Without having time to look at any of this, the balance point to me is, are there enough reliable sources to make 'near death studies' an actual article, regardless of its categorization? And then link it into the appropriate other articles (such as the suggestion by jps. --] (]) 18:05, 14 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:Also noting for posterity that I've managed to find another decent English-language source on the topic , don't know if there are any more in German. ] (]) 03:01, 27 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Yup, in his Grail Message he distinguished between the Son of God (Jesus Christ) and the Son of Man (himself). The morals of the book was that Christ was a loser, while Bernhardt is a winner. ] (]) 03:50, 27 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Near-death studies is a name for a field of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. According to Bruce Greyson, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Psychiatry, vol. 56, November 1993: It is of interest to mental health professionals because these experiences produce widespread and long—lasting changes in values, beliefs, and behavior that dramatically affect the experiencers' attitudes toward living and dying. | |||
:I really feel that if you are to stay objective, then you should look at the evidence to come to a conclusion. It's not whitewashing if you choose to use the author's exact words to represent his legacy whilst stating the interpretation of others which are not really in accord with the author's wishes or actions. | |||
:And worthy of note, I'm not a member of the grail movement but even they shouldn't be banned from editing if the content brought is true and verifiable. ] (]) 03:54, 27 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Hmmm... that's not how Misplaced Pages works. We prefer ] ] sources written by ] to a ] view of the religious believers. See ]. | |||
::It is about what the patient under care claims to experience for the purpose of treatment. While scientists clearly have a hard time containing their curiosity the primary purpose of the studies arises from an interest in what happens if the patent doesn't die. (As oppose to Parapsychology that is interested in what happens after death) | |||
::Also, religious preachers often state "Go left!" when they go right. We don't take ] religious writings at face value. We don't take Bernhardt's statement that he preaches the rationally intelligible version of Jesus's message, but essentially the same message, at face value. | |||
::He knew that saying "Let's do like the primary Christians" was tantamount to founding a new sect. Because there were plenty of historical examples of that. ] (]) 05:20, 27 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::{{tq|use the author's exact words to represent his legacy}} | |||
::No. That's just propaganda, not reliably sourced information. — <b>]:<sup>]</sup></b> 17:58, 27 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Service: {{al|Grail Movement}} | |||
:For those who are already watching the article and do not want to destroy their last-version-seen bookmark by clicking directly on a newer version. --] (]) 09:05, 27 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
: For what it's worth I've comprehensively rewritten the article on the Grail Movement based on the very useful encyclopedia entry. ] (]) 19:43, 27 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
::Our job is not to ignorantly second guess the merit of scientific investigation but to establish if such research happened and if the field of study received enough coverage. After doing so we should consider if there is value in having a separate scientific context besides from the pop culture, the level of content replication and how big the articles are. Ignorantly blending science with pop-culture is a terrible idea but given the terrible state of the article it is an understandable mistake. You probably thought the scientists are looking for god or something like that. | |||
Recently there was a statement which is added in heliocentrism article which claims that vedic philosopher ] (c. 900–700 Century BCE) proposed Yajnavalkya's theory of heliocentrism stating that the ] was "the center of the spheres".The problem is that the reference given below is just a misinterpretation of the text which claims that vedic scholar knew about heliocentrism way before Aristachus of samos and was the first to do so.I have reverted the edit but it is keep on adding by other users.It is traditionally accepted in mainstream academia that the first person to propose heliocentrism is the ancient Greek astronomer aristachus of samos and any theory before him isn't accepted by mainstream academia or it is considered as fringe theory. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 06:10, 28 December 2024 (UTC)</small> | |||
::There are sufficient sources to satisfy notability of the scientific field. Notability extends infinitely far into the afterlife: If it ever was a notable field it will be notable forever. If the field is abandoned doesn't mean we should delete the article. This same mistake is indeed to be found in : ] That topic unquestionably '''has been''' subjected to serious research by researchers with respectable academic posts. In this AfD we also get to see the POV fork fallacy repeated: ]: '''Since what qualifies as a "POV fork" can itself be based on a POV judgement, it may be best not to refer to the fork as "POV" except for in extreme cases of persistent disruptive editing.''' | |||
:You didn't explain how it was "misinterpretation" of the text rather than direct mention of the authors ] (]) 14:28, 28 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::For a scientific article, beyond establishing notability, we want scientific sources from proponents and deniers alike. I can see how the Skeptic dictionary editors don't like that idea, they want to use ignorant blog postings that fit their already made up believe system, not scientific objectivity. Clearly what we have here is editing to advance a specific view. | |||
::Authors in the reference themselves misinterpreted the the text which states that the {{Talk quote|Sun is the centre of spheres}} as heliocentrism but heliocentrism itself states that the sun is the centre of the universe and planets revolve around the sun and secondly there is no mention of original text by authors in their reference most of them rely on tertiary sources and the statement itself is unscientific as it is widely accepted in scientific and mainstream academia that the first person to propose heliocentrism is the ancient Greek philosopher aristachus of samos ] (]) 15:11, 28 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Here are some reliable sources which talks about astronomy in india<ref> https://books.google.co.in/books?id=kt9DIY1g9HYC&pg=PA317&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref><ref name=Cosmic>{{cite book|last=Subbarayappa|first=B. V.|editor=Biswas, S. K. |editor2=Mallik, D. C. V. |editor3=Vishveshwara, C. V. |editor3-link=C. V. Vishveshwara |title=Cosmic Perspectives|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFTGKi8fjvoC&pg=FA25|date=14 September 1989|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-34354-1|pages=25–40|chapter=Indian astronomy: An historical perspective}}</ref>None of them talks anything related to vedic heliocentrism. ] (]) 16:03, 28 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::You didn't mention how Yajnavalkya's mention is interpreted in Heliocentric context.] philosopher ] (c. 900–700 Century BCE) proposed ] stating that the ] was "the center of the spheres".<ref>{{Cite book |title=Physics Around Us: How And Why Things Work |last=Dash |first=J.Gregory |date= |publisher=World Scientific Publishing Company |year=2012 |isbn=9789813100640 |pages=115 |last2=Henley |first2=Ernest M}}</ref> ] (]) 17:37, 28 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::It doesn't equate to heliocentrism as it's just a religious interpretation so it doesn't belong to the article and Secondly, J.Gregory; Henley, Ernest M (2012). Physics Around Us: How And Why Things Work. World Scientific Publishing Company Isn't even credible source as neither of them are experts in these fields.Even the description of the book claims that it is suitable for a first year, non-calculus physics course not a peer reviewed journal.] (]) 17:44, 28 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::All of the sources are authentic, nonetheless there are probably more to it, I ill discuss in that particular page of the article. ] (]) 18:46, 28 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::: ] (]) 18:46, 28 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::Just because World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc is used to publish research paper and project that doesn't mean that all research papers are credible and I had already discussed in my previous comment that the book is meant for first year non calculus students.Research books required to be reviewed by authors who are expert in that particular field to give it a peer review . ] (]) 19:11, 28 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::::So what, You can't dismiss it's credibility on Anything; There are multiple other cite besided that. ] (]) 19:31, 28 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::Most other sources you provided aren't credible that's the reason why it got removed. ] (]) 19:43, 28 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::::::Credible on what basis, Yesterday or early today you were arguing good publication like Oxford Cambridge to provide and seemingly thats the only basis, and somehow provided you want other criteria and somehow getting your own opinion or research being given that way. ] (]) 19:50, 28 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::Let's keep the discussion on one page-it will be easy rather switching. ] (]) 18:16, 28 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
{{ref talk}} | |||
== Does the lead of ] cover the criticism sufficiently? == | |||
::Thanks for your time, | |||
I don't think it does. The biography of one of the authors, ], mentions the book but no criticism of it. ] ] 10:13, 31 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== Courtesy notice: RfC on NewsNation == | |||
== ] == | |||
For your awareness, I've opened an RfC here on the reliability of NewsNation, a frequent source used for UFO coverage on WP. ] (]) 19:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Thanks for the notice, even if I do not agree with the deprecation/depreciation system. ] (]) 20:33, 31 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
See ] (]) 08:55, 15 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::You're welcome, even if I do not agree with your disagreement. ] (]) 21:58, 31 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
::See what? ] (]) 01:47, 16 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:::Well cited criticism being removed. ] (]) 06:05, 16 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::::I can see that but why is it here? Why cant you/Dough just restore it and use the talk pages? At the top of the noticeboard I read: ''"This page is for requesting input on possible fringe theories. Post here to seek advice on whether a particular topic is fringe or mainstream, or whether undue weight is being given to fringe theories.''" The contribution seems wrong enough not to merit a discussion here. What part am I missing? ] (]) 19:18, 17 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:::::Just hoping for more eyes. I don't really have a lot of time for editing and am gradually removing most articles from my watchlist. ] (]) 13:47, 19 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
I think we need more eyes on the talk page for ] regarding multiple discussion threads there. There's been a lot of ] and new account activity over the past two months and there should really be broader community involvement so ] issues don't occur. There's several instances of comments currently on the talk page where accounts more or less openly state that they're trying to make POV changes because the scientific community is covering up the facts. ]]<sup>]</sup> 21:58, 31 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== Potential revision to ]? == | |||
== The ], a 12th century Norse baptistry? == | |||
Has anyone ever considered altering the above template in such a way as to allow it to not use the words "fringe theories" in the template as it appears, but rather the phrase "minority theories"? There is currently discussion about the definition of "fringe theories" here at ], where some individuals are advocating, I think not necessarily wholly unreasonably, that the "minority" theory that Jesus never existed might not qualify as a "fringe theory" the way that phrase is ordinarily used in everyday speech. Given the somewhat perjorative nature of the term fringe theory in a lot of circles, I can see potentially other instances in which the latter phrasing might be more reasonable than the former. Any ideas? ] (]) 21:13, 15 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:If something is truly a minority theory, isn't that different than fringe? Over at ] there are three bullet points. I was always under the assumption that the third bullet point was in essence our definition of what fringe material is. It seems like the folks in your example are claiming it's the second bullet point. If that's the case, I'm afraid changing the phrase to minority theory would only confuse that matter since it would categorize a wider array of things as fringe material. I think it'd probably be better to point folks to the distinction between fringe and minority views instead. ] (]) 21:23, 15 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::I agree with Kingoffaces, a minority view is substantially different than a fringe one. --] (]) 23:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
Of course not, But an ex-navy graduate student has managed to get a paper claiming this into a book published by Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Coğrafya ve Kartografya (Geography and Cartography in the Ottoman Empire), eds. Mahmut Ak and Ahmet Üstüner, 201-86. Istanbul: Istanbul University Press, 2024 . | |||
== Targeted Individual == | |||
An article I wrote long ago might be relevant here.. ] ] 10:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
{{Resolved|Article deleted and salted. ] (]) 23:13, 21 January 2015 (UTC)}} | |||
Article and deletion discussion relevant to this noticeboard: {{la|Targeted Individual}} | |||
:Found him being used in one article and deleted it. It was obviously a good faith addtion. ] ] 14:12, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::He's emailed me demanding it be added to the Newport Tower article as it has been peer reviewed. ] ] 14:56, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::Taken it to RSN. ] ] 16:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
== New fringe article ] == | |||
:This is not a fringe article, either it can be sourced and written properly or sources are insufficent and it should be deleted. ] (]) 19:35, 17 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
Among other issues is used as a source. | |||
== ] == | |||
Also see ] where that article has been added through the redirect ]. We don't even know if ] was a real person. ] ] 16:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:AfD'd it. I would have thrown up a speedy delete but I imagined it'd pass some very quick smell check with the way it's written looking more legitimate than normal fringe nonsense here. ] seems to have everything needed for now. ] 18:08, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
Fringe, POV, and OR edits. ] (]) 19:53, 18 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::And now we have ] also saying the Portuguese got there first, same fringe book as source. ] ] 09:15, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::AFDd this, as well. It does appear there's a few adherents to these ideas around Misplaced Pages and the writing quality is high enough to mask the patent garbage underlying, which is a nuissance as it sort of rules out speedy deletion. ] 11:23, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
== Harald Walach == | |||
== New category for ] suggested == | |||
*{{la|Harald Walach}} | |||
Homeopathy crank, involved in the anti-Ernst smear campaign a few years back. (] was paid by Big Homeopathy to tell lies about ], was exposed in an article in a major newspaper, "The dirty methods of the gentle medicine", was dropped by Big Homeopathy like a hot potato, killed himself. Walach blamed the skeptics for that.) Should his involvement be in the article? --] (]) 08:13, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
See ] ] (]) 15:16, 21 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
== Seed oil misinformation == | |||
:The category seems at least justifiable (where it is used properly - which will mean according to cited sources). The ] article clearly needs work though. ] (]) 16:20, 21 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
*{{la|Seed oil misinformation}} | |||
New IP address on talk claiming there is evidence seed oils are driving chronic disease. The usual suspects cited including a paper by James DiNicolantonio that is often cited by the paleo diet community. User is requesting that the article be renamed "Health effects of seed oils". See discussion on talk-page. ] (]) 11:35, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
== ] == | |||
Lack of good sources and probably biased towards UFOlogy. Leave alone or nominate for deletion? ] (]) 02:22, 22 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
The article ] appears to be in the middle of a months long ] to remove any mention of it being quackery or pseudoscience. I would appreciate some extra set of eyes on this article, specifically people that have more experience in this type of article. --]<sub>]]</sub> 14:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
== Electronic harassment == | |||
:Rewrote some of the intro to call it quackery, which thankfully wasn't hard to cite. ] 18:13, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
Eyes may be needed on the ] article - a contributor has been adding the same fringe-conspiracy-theory-promoting nonsense that was previously in the now-deleted ] article. ] (]) 04:40, 22 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
== Off-wiki coordination on Circumcision related articles == | |||
:I personally would retain something of the "media" section (though not in its current proxy-for-inclusion form) and something like the last paragraph of the lead. ] (]) 17:45, 22 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
It looks like the 'intactivists' are coordinating off-Wiki to influence circumcision related articles. I was made aware of this at ]. To quote that editor: | |||
== Soft tissue creationism == | |||
<blockquote>As we speak, pages on ], ], ], male ], and ] have all been recently improved upon editor notice.</blockquote> | |||
It seems there are some creationists who think that soft-tissue preservation is their ace in the hole for supporting ]. I just did this because it seems to me that since Ken Ham has supported a huge number of peculiar reinterpretations of mainstream ideas highlighting just soft-tissue is the bugbear ] of this particular creationist editor. YMMV. | |||
] (]) |
More watchlisting on affected articles would be greatly appeciated. ] (]) 18:02, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | ||
:I'm not touching that article with a ten foot pole but surely the fact that the entire bioethical debate is relegated to a single sentence when it's highly contentious within that field makes an argument that the folks coordinating have a point? The question mark is sincere there, I assume any point I could bring up has already been argued to death by people who know more than I. ] 09:10, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
Note also ]. ] (]) 15:45, 25 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::The wiki linked on that Talk page quotes Larry Sanger and the Heartland Institute. If those people "have a point", it is by random chance since LS and HI are both, let's say, not among the 8.1 billion most trustworthy people on Earth. This is likely a very ] operation. --] (]) 11:15, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:The better solution is to simply avoid letting that section turn into Creationism arguments/debates by proxy. As a BLP, Ham is the article's focus, hence it is sufficient to say "Ham believes X" in a non-argumentative fashion, give the cites that support it, and not make it the issue whether or not X is true. I'll make an edit to remove that sentence accordingly, then we'll see if editors insist on forcing the debate back in. Regards, ] (]) 16:21, 25 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:: |
::It's a big topic and written summary style. Most of the relevant content should be at ] or ] and not the places the new editors have been putting things. ] (]) 12:22, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | ||
:::I actually don't really agree the summary style used there is a good one. Dumping the ethical concerns into their own article while keeping the religious concerns (which are inherently ethical concerns) present a ]. | |||
::Thanks, AzureCitizen. There's a little pushback, but I'm not convinced we have any authoritative secondary sources which describe precisely how Ken Ham does his thing. Perhaps Ronald Numbers' book could work, but I don't think he goes into enough detail. There's also the interesting story of how AiG and CMI split over personality differences. Well... maybe the sleeping dogs can be let lying. ] (]) 14:51, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:::But again, ten foot pole etc. ] 14:08, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::::If the choice is between summary style (since a specialized article exists) and huge manifestos that solely aim at maximal visibility of a particular POV (massive tables in the lede, excessive blockquotes), then the short-term solution is obvious. For balanced, sensible extensions beyond summary style, there is sufficient room to discuss in the respective talk pages. –] (]) 13:01, 4 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::::I'm already involved in enough ] articles for me to want to get too involved in this one. :) ] 13:06, 4 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:Obviously the meatpuppery is a problem, but I do not really see how any of this is related to a fringe theory. It seems like a pretty clear case of activist editing to ], which, while misguided, does not really try to introduce fringe views. The "intactwiki" article cited at the beginning of their response is obviously trash that does not help their case, but I believe they are if anything mostly a new user not yet familiar with how things are done here. I tried to point them in a better direction in the discussion on their talk page '''''<span style="color:#503680">] ] ]</span>''''' 17:55, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::We get waves of this business on Misplaced Pages. The main fringey positions will be attempts to draw equivalence between female genital mutilation and male circumcision. This is often a precursor to fringe medical claims (intactivists like to overstate complication rates in particular) and sometimes antisemitic conspiracy theories show up as well. ] (]) 19:05, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::That there is a notable equivalency, not in terms of harm or the damage caused, but in terms of ethical concerns around consent is a completely mainstream perspective within bioethics and calling it a fringe stance feels like using ] as a cudgel. That’s why dumping any concerns into their own article is a POV fork. I think it’s extremely disingenuous to discount the very real and ongoing discussions around bioethics as a fringe stance, even if the attempts to twist the harms to make it more equivalent to FGM are POV-pushing fringe edits. | |||
:::Literally the first line of the ] article is the statement: | |||
== Proposed Hypothesis/Theory as fact == | |||
::::There is substantial disagreement amongst bioethicists and theologians over the practice of circumcision | |||
===Original question=== | |||
Should we regard ] (IAMt) as a historical fact? In terms of making references to it, or using the hypothesis as the actuality for generalizing the historical events. | |||
:::] 09:12, 4 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
] says ''"Peer review is an important feature of reliable sources that discuss scientific, historical or other academic ideas, but it is not the same as acceptance by the scientific community. It is important that original hypotheses that have gone through peer review do not get presented in Misplaced Pages as representing scientific consensus or fact."'' | |||
::::Correct. But there isn't substantial disagreement about FGM, which is why one side of the argument finds it useful to draw a false equivalence on that point. ] (]) 13:49, 4 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::::I think enough ] sources would disagree about there being no equivalency at all that brining this to FTN instead of an appropriate venue for dealing with the offsite coordination and asserting that it’s ] feels quite inappropriate? Either way, I’m not going to get suckered into this one and will leave it be :) ] 14:35, 4 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::::::My opinion is that the obvious RGW canvassing and meat-puppetry are obviously bad and should be dealt with accordingly, but also the serious ethical debate around the subject shouldn’t be casually downplayed as purely “fringe”. This is an NPOV issue more than anything. It’d be like saying “opposition to human trafficking is fringe” because some Qanon weirdos are brigading articles about it— mainstream topics always have fringe ''positions'' within them, without being fringe themselves. ] (]) 11:42, 9 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
== John Yudkin == | |||
In recent months, a lot of content from the main page of the hypothesis has been forked into pages like ], ], ] by a particular user, previously they had not even mentioned. While it had received acceptance as a possibility, it is heavily debated and remains controversial as the proposed similarities of various cultures are based on linguistics and these issues are not yet settled. And it is contradictory to multiple scientific(DNA) researches,- that even questioned the existence of 'Aryans'. ] (]) 10:43, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
*{{al|John Yudkin}} | |||
I have no idea how right or wrong exactly he was, but sentences like {{tq|The efforts of the food industry to discredit the case against sugar were largely successful}} sound exactly like what we hear from fringe pushers. Characterizing a rather sensible-sounding sentence by Ancel Keys as {{tq|rancorous language and personal smears}} is inappropriate too. Who has the competence to improve this? --] (]) 12:16, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:This is not really an issue for this board, at least not in the way ] seems to think it is. IAMt is not remotrely a fringe theory, and of course it should be central to discussion of the Vedic religion. This issue arises because ] has been trying to improve these articles, which are magnets for Hindutva cruft. I have a busy schedule at the moment, so can't help in keeping this issue focussed on scholarship, rather than being held hostage to ridiculous ideological/nationalist agendas. So more eyes are certainly needed. Bladesmulti's last sentence indicates his utter incomprehenion of the issue. The existence of "Aryan" DNA as a biological entity is as irrelevant to the issue as the existence of "Latin" DNA in France or Romania. ] (]) 12:53, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::You don't know but this board is not just for fringe theories, but anything that is contradicting the ] policy. Kurgan Hypothesis was discussed here before, which is related with this. If the reliable citation says that there is no DNA evidence, that is what we have to mention. Another problem is that if these hypothesis should be posed as real when they are not yet established and contradicts to scientific researches. If you compare the version before January 2014 to the current one, you mostly find the one sided explanation to have been repeated and much of the refutation being removed. We should rather point the contradiction. Plus it is already being denied I don't see any professing since the last DNA research(from 2011). Did you? ] (]) 13:03, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:{{tq|The efforts of the food industry to discredit the case against sugar were largely successful}} | |||
:::Oh my, Blades, please state the question in a proper way. As you've stated it now, there's only one answer: yes, the IAMt is a historical fact. The theory exists. | |||
:Is this a fringe view? I was under the impression that this was as generally accepted as the history of the tobacco industry. ]] 14:53, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::What you are trying to say is that the migration of the Indo-Aryan people, cq. the spread and diffusion of the Indo-European languages and culture, is not a "fact", but a theoretical assumption. Dù... | |||
::No it was mostly exaggeration. There were only a handful of sugar industry funded studies on CVD. The article has been on my watchlist for a while, many Misplaced Pages articles in the past cited this credulous Guardian piece written by Ian Leslie promoting a conspiracy theory about the sugar industry which takes its information from low-carber ] who is completely unreliable. John Yudkin was an early low-carb author who rejected the evidence for saturated fat and CVD risk; instead he blamed sugar. Robert Lustig promoted a lot of conspiracy theories defending Yudkin. There are a handful of old studies funded by the sugar industry that investigated cardiovascular disease but low-carbers like Lustig and Gary Taubes exaggerate and claim there were hundreds. It would be worth removing Ian Leslie's unreliable article as a source from the article, it promotes WP:Fringe and sensationalistic claims. ] (]) 15:07, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::Your reference to ] completely misses the point yu want to make, but underscores the opposite: the IAMT, c.q. ] (IEMt) ''does'' represent the scientific consensus. ] -] 14:36, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::: I'm not sure that's the prevailing modern view. ]] 15:13, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::::But you still haven't named even a single scientist who claims it to be scientific? It is not actually historic because it is based on linguistic similarities that are usually debunked and have no factual basis. See ]. Thus your explanation has nothing to with the above question that still remains unanswered. ] (]) 16:57, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::::I have read that paper many times. It is a favourite of the low-carb community. The paper you cited is talking about the 1960s and its cites unreliable sources like ] and Nina Teicholz. ] received a one off payment from the Sugar Association for $6500 for a review of research. There is no evidence for 100s of studies funded by the sugar industry, if you think there is please list them. The claims are exaggerated, that's why they have so few examples. Back in the 1960s the standards of disclosure were less stringent than they are today. Hegstead also received funding from the dairy industry for his research but of course that isn't mentioned in the paper because it doesn't suit their narrative. The modern prevailing view is that high saturated fat consumption is bad for health. All the guidelines recommend limiting processed sugar but it isn't considered the main risk factor for CVD. There are many risk factors. The "blame only sugar" approach for CVD or all chronic disease is definitely a ] view, and no different than what we are now seeing with ]. ] (]) 16:34, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::::::::'''All''' historical linguists agree on this. There is ''no'' debate about this in the science of historical linguistic. The genealogical unity of the indo-European languages - including the Indo-Aryan languages is a basic and foundational assumption of the entire field of historical linguistics and therefore noone has to argue about its status in the literature. It would be akin to astronomers arguing about whether the earth is flat, or biologists arguing about divine creation. It is simply outside of the realm of that which can reasonably be doubted given the available evidence.] 18:32, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:::::Here is Hegstead's 1967 review , can you find any faults in the methodology? The paper admits to having received funding from the "Special Dairy Industry Board". The paper you cited by Cristin E Kearns doesn't mention this. Here Is Hegstead's conclusion from the paper: "''The major evidence today suggests only one avenue by which diet may affect the development and progression of atherosclerosis. This is by influencing the serum lipids, especially serum cholesterol, though this may take place by means of different biochemical mechanisms not yet understood''". Dude was right in 1967 with over 50 years of research since supporting that conclusion. Plenty of clinical evidence has since confirmed the ]. Most of what Yudkin was saying has not been confirmed. ] (]) 16:46, 3 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::::: He did. Mallory, Witzel and Jamison are all trained in linguistics and use it as part of their general work. Are you claiming that all linguists are "pseudo-scientific?" ] (]) 18:00, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:::::::A share of proposed linguistic similarities does not require human migration. Mallory himself says that the languages may have spread under the conditions of friendly trade. For proving actual human migration, there is a need of other scientific evidence like DNA, archaeology, etc. and it is lacking. ] (]) 18:11, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::Nonsense. You are misrepresenting what Mallory says. Trade is a form of migration, what he is saying that it need not have been a military invasion. A migration of speakers is an absolute requirement for explaining the linguistic history. There is no need for any other evidence to establish that. And yet there is ample evidence of influx of genes, cultural artefacts and people into the subcontinent.] 18:28, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::::::::::Neighbors can inspire neighbors in terms of language, where is the need of migration here? Keep your belief to yourself. You are going way off here without properly reading what he has told. Point is that there is no proof of migration, just stories, unless you have got some proof or research that has explicitly proven. ] (]) 22:37, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
== 2019 Military World Games == | |||
===Restatement=== | |||
*{{Pagelinks|2019 Military World Games}} | |||
So, if we restate your question: | |||
Noticed this since it was linked in some COVID-19 talk page. An editor keeps adding this conspiracy theory about COVID-19 based largely on 2020 sources including sources which contradict what they're adding. I intend to bring them to ARE next time they try, but in case ARE doesn't see it the same way it would be helpful to get more eyes on this. ] (]) 13:22, 4 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:1. Is the the IAMT, c.q. IEMt, a scientific theory which is accepted by the scientific community? | |||
:2. Is the "Indigenous Aryans theory" ]? ] -] 14:36, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::None of them are accepted by the scientific community. ] (]) 16:49, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:To give an example of a contradiction, the edit says "{{tqi|The National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI - a branch of the DIA within the USIC) based in Fort Detrick, MD, provided an intelligence report soon after the end of the Military World Games that indicated a contagion had begun spreading in the Wuhan region; this intelligence report was shared only with NATO member states and the state of Israel.}}" So it's presenting this as something factual that did happen. But one of the very sources used specifically includes an explicit denial of such a report "{{tqi|No such NCMI product exists," the statement said.}}" While government statements can't always be trusted, with such an explicit denial reported by the very source we're using, if we're going to present the report as something factual as the editor is trying to do, we'd need strong evidence that this reported is widely accepted to exist despite this denial but there is none in those sources. And this is from April 2020. No sources have been provided demonstrating that anyone in 2025 still thinks this report exists and that's with a change in administration in the US and all else that's gone on since then. I'd note this also seems to contradict the timeline of COVID-19 which suggests it was first identified in December 2019, or with November 17 given as the earliest date in our ] article meaning it is inherently impossible for there to be a report in the 2nd week of November. ] (]) 13:40, 4 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
To answer your questions: | |||
::I think we can go ahead and mention that the claims exist, but with much less ]. I've trimmed it down to one short paragraph that properly balances everything (mentions that the rumors exist, then states why they are false). –] <small>(])</small> 08:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:1. ] & Adams (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World: | |||
:::Thanks, I don't see a problem with that. I did consider drastically reducing and leaving something in but frankly it was such a mess with all the 2020 sources and even one or two from 2019 (which while the games were in 2019, was well before any talk of COVID so raised strong ] concerns) that I decided not to bother since it didn't seem that important. I did miss the 2022 source somehow which make it seem more likely we should mention it (since it isn't just something people make a big deal of in April 2020 then completely forgot about). ] (]) 03:35, 6 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::''"Currently, there are two types of models that enjoy signifiant international currency (Map 26.1)." (p.460) | |||
::::I was reverted. Might need more eyes, or an RFC. –] <small>(])</small> 05:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::''"There is the Neolithic model that involves a wave of advance from Anatolia c. 7000 bc and, at least for south-eastern and central Europe, argues primarily for the importation of a new language by an ever growing population of farmers." (p.460) | |||
::''"Alternatively, there is the steppe or kurgan model which sees the Proto-IndoEuropeans emerging out of local communities in the forest-steppe of the Ukraine and south Russia. Expansion westwards is initiated c. 4000 bc by the spread from the forest-steppe of mobile communities who employed the horse and, within the same millennium, wheeled vehicles." (p.461)'' | |||
== Acupuncture, Hypnotherapy references in Jaw Dislocation article == | |||
:Clear answer: the the IAMT, c.q. IEMt, is a scientific theory which is generally accepted, while the "Indigenous Aryans" theory is not even being mentioned.] -] 14:36, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::That book is outdated in the sense that it was written before the decline of the Indo Aryan Migration hypothesis, it is not discussing any scientific data. | |||
::I am not getting that why you are even copying this irrelevant quote for misinterpreting its status as scientific. We have already discussed it on the talk page, haven't we? ] (]) 16:49, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:::You are quite mistaken, Bladesmulti. The Mallory and Adams book is the current most accurate survey of the IEMt. It is completely and totally scientific and accepted by all competent Indo-European scholars. There is no qualified dissent from its findings or discussion. For example, Benjamin W. Fortson IV, ''Indo-European Language and Culture, An Introduction'', Second edition (2010, Wiley-Blackwell); David W. Anthony, ''The Horse, the Wheel, and Language'' (2007, Princeton); George Cardona & Dhanesh Jain, "General Introduction," ''The Indo-Aryan Languages'' (2003, Routledge, pp. 1-45). The claim that the IAMt is false is simply not supported by linguistic fact. This is not a "theory" any more than gravity is a "theory". --] (]) 21:24, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
In the article about ], in the treatment section, lies some dubious claims hidden in otherwise rational and sourced claims: | |||
:2. ], Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University: | |||
::''"The 'revisionist project' certainly is not guided by the principles of critical theory but takes, time and again, recourse to pre-enlightenment beliefs in the authority of traditional religious texts such as the Purånas. In the end, it belongs, as has been pointed out earlier, to a different 'discourse' than that of historical and critical scholarship. In other words, it continues the writing of religious literature, under a contemporary, outwardly 'scientific' guise The revisionist and autochthonous project, then, should not be regarded as scholarly in the usual post-enlightenment sense of the word, but as an apologetic, ultimately religious undertaking aiming at proving the 'truth' of traditional texts and beliefs. Worse, it is, in many cases, not even scholastic scholarship at all but a political undertaking aiming at 'rewriting' history out of national pride or for the purpose of 'nation building'." ({{Citation | last =Witzel | first =Michael | year =2001 | title =Autochthonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian Texts | journal =Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies 7-3 (EJVS) 2001(1-115) | url =http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/EJVS-7-3.pdf}})'' ] -] 14:36, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:::Who asked for this irrelevant quote? | |||
:::We are talking about why we should give weight to a hypothesis, often defunct. Which is violation of ]. Witzel is not a scientist. ] (]) 16:49, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
{{tq|The different modalities include patient education and self-care practices, medication, physical therapy, splints, psychological counseling, relaxation techniques, ''biofeedback, hypnotherapy, acupuncture'', and arthrocentesis.}} (Emphasis added) | |||
:And in her review of Bryant's "The Indo-Aryan Controversy" Stephanie Jamison, , comments: | |||
::''"...the parallels between the Intelligent Design issue and the Indo-Aryan "controversy" are distressingly close. The Indo-Aryan controversy is a manufactured one with a non-scholarly agenda, and the tactics of its manufacturers are very close to those of the ID proponents mentioned above. However unwittingly and however high their aims, the two editors have sought to put a gloss of intellectual legitimacy, with a sense that real scientific questions are being debated, on what is essentially a religio-nationalistic attack on a scholarly consensus." ({{cite journal |last=Jamison |first=Stephanie W. |title=The Indo-Aryan controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history (Book review) |url=http://www.safarmer.com/Indo-Eurasian/Bryant_Patton.review.pdf |journal=Journal of Indo-European Studies |volume=34 |year=2006 |pp=255–261}})'' | |||
This edit was added and then a source was . The is behind a paywall, but when I got through it, I don't see any mention of hypnotherapy, acupuncture, or biofeedback at all. Even when I went to the separate page about , again no mention of hypnotherapy, acupuncture, or biofeedback. (And to be frank, no mention of relaxation techniques, psychological counseling, or splints, either, but those seem to at least be more plausible.) | |||
:Also a clear answer: the "Indigenous Aryans" theory is fringe. | |||
I think an editor put those into the actual treatments hoping no one would notice. As such, because they are unsourced and pseudoscientific, I think they should be removed. ] (]) 06:39, 5 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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:All those that aren't sourced should be removed, including treatments not in the source because they seem plausible is OR.] (]) 13:13, 5 January 2025 (UTC) | ||
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::Agreed. Also summarize everything you do on the Talk page so that the editor is on notice in case they try to sneak it back in. ] (]) 13:22, 5 January 2025 (UTC) | ||
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:Actually, that entire paragraph is about treating ] rather than jaw dislocation. It can just be removed, leaving the second paragraph which is actually about treatment of jaw dislocation. ] (]) 13:44, 5 January 2025 (UTC) | ||
::I think ] could probably do with some eyes. ] (]) 15:00, 5 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
*Some theories are so widely accepted that they have the status as the kind of provisional facts that scientists work with as basic assumptions. The "Indo-Aryan migration theory", which simply means that Indo-European languages originated outside of india, is one of those facts. There are two main contenders for the history of the I-E languages, the Kurgan and the Anatolian hypotheses. Neither of them is compatible with an account that sees IE as having originated within the Indian subcontinent. ] 18:14, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
== Delta smelt == | |||
:::Blades, this statement "Above author has no status in scientific field" is ridiculous. Totally, complete bullshit. Open your eyes and read again, very slowly: | |||
:::* ], Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University (; | |||
:::* Stephanie Jamison, ; | |||
:::* J.p Mallory, emeritus professor at Queen's University, Belfast, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies; | |||
:::* Douglas Quentin Adams, professor of English at the University of Idaho. | |||
:::If professors don't have status in the academic field, not even Harvard professors, then who does? ] -] 19:14, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::::We don't determine the validity of a hypothesis by the "status" of a professor. A professor at any level can push garabage under an ] that way. That is instead determined by acceptance of the idea by others in the field in the peer-reviewed literature. When you summarize the literature reviews in the field, what do they say? ] (]) 19:34, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::::::They do not even mention the possibility that Indo-Aryan languages could have originated within the subcontinent. It is a non-starter.] 19:46, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::::::"We don't determine the validity of a hypothesis by the 'status' of a professor". Umm, yes we do. That's exactly what we do. Misplaced Pages works by 'appeal to authority'. That the whole point of ] and ]. We don't argue the ins and outs of arguments for or against a theory. We assess the views of authorities. As for you request for a "literature review", this is not really a typical feature of the relevant scholarly fields. ] (]) 21:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:::::See above and below: accepted mainstream theory (the Indo-European Migration theory/Indo-Aryan Migration theory, ''not'' the socalled"Out of India theory", which is fringe). ] -] 19:40, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::::::I asked because nothing is really jumping out at me from the few sources mentioned here. Some don't appear to be peer-reviewed (so they can say pretty much whatever they want), and book reviews aren't too reliable for assessing scientific consensus. ] is pretty clear that we need clear statements of consensus from strong sources, and I'm not really seeing that from my quick glance. That's why I'm asking what reliable secondary sources actually say for and against the idea if at all (and that's for everyone involved here). Without that, we can't determine if the view is mainstream, a minority view, or fringe. If each source could be put in a list here or at the talk page with just one sentence or two for the main conclusion it's drawing, we could at least start trying to figure out where the weight lies. ] (]) 19:59, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
There is an IP adding a theory from an SPS that does not come from a subject matter expert. The theory claims that an act Newsom refused to sign to protect the Delta smelt caused the Palisades Fire to spread out of control. What should I tell the IP? None of the Twinkle warning templates really seem to match. ] (]) 20:24, 9 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
*Danesh Jain, George Cardona. 2007. The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge, Chapter 1. General Introduction (discusses the debate of the Indic homeland and sides with mainstream migrationist view) | |||
*Benjamin W. Fortson, IV. 2011. Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction. John Wiley & Sons, p. 206 (states invasion as simple fact, mentions no other view) | |||
*J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. p. 306. Taylor & Francis. Assumes as fact that proto-Indic was on the iranian plateau and moved from there into the subcontinent. | |||
:I would use the {{tq|Addition of unsourced or improperly cited material ...}} warning, with a link to ] in the edit window of the message. ] 21:30, 9 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
=== Further discussion === | |||
I'm not knowledgeable in this area at all, but just looking at ], whatever the truth or other wise of the hypothesis, the long section on the origins of the Vedic religion seems out of place. After all what evidence could their be of their religion clear enough to be relevant to the article? Also - a good way to get a first idea about something like this is to look at other encyclopedias to see how they treat it. So Encyclopedia Britannica for instance clearly states it as a largely discredited hypothesis, see http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/37468/Aryan | |||
*{{al|Delta smelt}} | |||
{{quote|"However, since the late 20th century, a growing number of scholars have rejected both the Aryan invasion hypothesis and the use of the term Aryan as a racial designation, suggesting that the Sanskrit term arya (“noble” or “distinguished”), the linguistic root of the word, was actually a social rather than an ethnic epithet. Rather, the term is used strictly in a linguistic sense, in recognition of the influence that the language of the ancient northern migrants had on the development of the Indo-European languages of South Asia. In the 19th century the term was used as a synonym for “Indo-European” and also, more restrictively, to refer to the Indo-Iranian languages. It is now used in linguistics only in the sense of the term Indo-Aryan languages, a branch of the larger Indo-European language family."}} | |||
More and more articles are in danger of fringe edits because of a certain random rambler. --] (]) 09:23, 10 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::Given that the habitat of the Delta smelt is about 335 miles north of Los Angeles and that all the decisions about the ] were made before Gavin Newsom was governor, and that even if Newsom had pushed hard to ship Northern California water hundreds of miles to Southern California without regard to environmental issues, and had succeeded (politically impossible), the necessary infrastructure could not possibly have been funded and built in the six years that Newsom has been governor. Add to that that the problems with fire hydrants in LA have not been due to lack of water in general but rather to power failures to water pumps caused by the massive fires, and limits to water storage that feeds fire hydrants. The storage tanks high in the hills were depleted quickly. They are bringing in portable generators as needed, and struggling to refill those tanks. When you add all that up, the connection between the Delta smelt and the 2025 Palisades Fire is non-existent, except in the minds of disinformation operatives and gullible conspiracy theorists. ] (]) 09:42, 10 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::My understanding based on watching the coverage of the fires is that it's mainly a pressure issue and not an issue of total existing water. Basically, no city has the infrastructure in place for every hydrant everywhere to be opened all at the same time. It's designed for multiple structure fires and not multiple town-size fires. Moreover, I expect that if someone tried to install the infrastructure for such a rare situation, everyone of all political stripes would be balking at the cost of something that might be used once every century. ]] 12:29, 10 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
== Discussion about SBM at COVID-19 lab leak theory == | |||
That's markedly different in tone from the current article, which would seem to suggest that it is promoting a fringe hypothesis. It might be an idea to search for other more specialist encyclopedias to see how they treat the hypothesis and what weight they put on it. Also the was similar in tone to the Encyclopedia Britannica entry, and had been worked on by many editors - so again as a meta observation that would seem to support the suggestion that it should be treated as fringe, marked as such, and not stated as fact in other articles. As for origin of the languages - it is surely a separate question. Otherwise you'd conclude that large parts of the world population migrated to their present location from the UK because they speak English, when that's only true of some of the places where English is spoken as the main language. Hope these observations help in some way! ] (]) 19:05, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
See ]. -- <small>LCU</small> ''']''' <small>''«]» °]°''</small> 20:10, 11 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:Robert, two things: it's about the "Indo-Aryan Migration theory", not the "Aryan Invasion theory". You don't know indeed what you're talking about. And two: I already told you three times today to stop harassing me ; one more time, and you're back at ANI. ] -] 19:21, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
== Misandry == | |||
::: {{ping|Robertinventor}} I am not sure I understand what you are saying. There is no mention of "invasion" or "race" in our ]. So, what discredited ideas are we using? As for the question of what evidence there is of their religion, we have texts, most notably the ], which has extremely detailed information about their religion. None of this is controversial. | |||
::: The only debate at the moment is as to whether these "aryans", i.e., Indo-European speakers, were indigenous or came from the outside. Our ] here contends that there is no evidence that they came from the outside. The fact that they spoke an Indo-European language that was current in other parts of Eurasia isn't good enough for him. So, your input on this ''linguistic'' issue would be useful. Cheers, ] (]) 19:27, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
Old/current Misplaced Pages message: "Misandry is a minor issue, not equivalent to the widespread practice and extensive history of misogyny.<ref name="Ouellette 2007">{{cite book |last=Ouellette |first=Marc |title=International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities |date=2007 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-1343-1707-3 |editor1=Flood, Michael |editor1-link=Michael Flood |pages=442–443 |chapter=Misandry |display-editors=etal}}</ref>" | |||
:::: Oh not doubting the ancient origins of the Vedas, hope that's clear! But - does the question of origin help to understand how the Vedas developed? As I said, linguistic origin is clearly a separate question from whether a migration occurred, as migration is just one of several ways languages can spread. For complexity of the processes see ] (]) 19:57, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::::::No, migration is ALWAYS involved in language spread and shift. Languages cannot travel without people. But there are different kinds of migrations that correlate with different kinds of spread and different timescales and social outcomes.] 20:11, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
My suggested edit: Some experts see misandry as a minor issue, not equivalent to the widespread practice and extensive history of misogyny.<ref name="Ouellette 2007">{{cite book |last=Ouellette |first=Marc |title=International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities |date=2007 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-1343-1707-3 |editor1=Flood, Michael |editor1-link=Michael Flood |pages=442–443 |chapter=Misandry |display-editors=etal}}</ref> Others disagree, and see misandry as a major issue.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Synnott |first1=Anthony |title=Why Some People Have Issues With Men: Misandry |journal=Psychology Today |date=October 6, 2010 |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rethinking-men/201010/why-some-people-have-issues-men-misandry?msockid=273e516a128c69c02f53445a13eb68ca |quote=Misandry is everywhere, culturally acceptable, even normative, largely invisible, taught directly and indirectly by men and women, blind to reality, very damaging and dangerous to men and women in different ways and de-humanizing.}}</ref> | |||
::::::: Try reading the article - he gives several examples where languages spread with only a small number of individuals who migrated. Indeed, some of his examples, there was no physical movement of people at all, it just spread to the culture from trading partners | |||
My edit has been reverted by @] and @] (who said I was engaging in an edit war or about to, but reverted himself, which I didn't fully understand.) | |||
::::::: {{quote|"Yet the indigenes held on in a number of rugged areas, particularly those characterized by heavy, year-round rainfall, such as the Sierra Madre Mountains of eastern Luzon** (in the winter dry season, the Sierra Madre catches rain from trade winds forced up-slope). From such redoubts, however, the indigenous foragers interacted extensively with their Austronesian neighbors, exchanging rain-forest products for agricultural and manufactured goods. Eventually, the languages of their trading partners fully “diffused” across their societies and then began to evolve in their own directions. Today, the several surviving “Negrito languages” are much more closely related to the languages of their neighbors than they are to each other."}} | |||
::::::::These examples (the Negritos, the Pygmies, the Aslians, etc.) are all examples of relic populations that have been pushed (or originated) in marginal habitats and who adapted their language for purposes of survival. In no case are these examples of a large, vibrant population being linguistically overwhelmed by a small minority without some type of military invasion by a substantial number of invaders. When a large population is linguistically subsumed, it is always by force and always by significant numbers of invaders. --] (]) 21:42, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
Their reasoning was that seeing misandry as a minor issue was the consensus amongst scholars. However, I said that there was no evidence that the majority of scholars don't see misandry as a big deal, or that seeing misandry as a big deal was a "fringe issue" amongst scholars. Who's in the right here? | |||
::::::::: Oh he gives an example of that also: "The Magyars, on the other hand, were able to firmly establish their language, which is spoken today by roughly 15 million people, even though the Magyars themselves were a relatively small group, substantially outnumbered by the peoples that they dominated.". Also trade is powerful too. It was a major reason for the spread of the Phoenician alphabet for instance: ] - that's mainly because they were such great traders, not invaders. So can be many reasons, not just military. I don't know what are the preferred hypotheses here - but just saying that generally you can't deduce a huge amount from the spread of a language, as I understand it, unless you know how it spread. ] (]) 21:59, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::::::::::::Yes, but that is wrong. Linguists ''can'' deduce a lot from the spread of the language, for example they can achieve a good idea about how it spread. In fact in the absence of written historical sources there is no other way to find out how language spread. And no, it is not always military and noone is claiming that it is. That is not what this is about. This is about the fact that all linguists who are not religiously invested in a fringe hypothesis agree that Indo-Aryan languages originated outside of India and arrived there by migrations. the question of whether this was a military invasion or not is entirely irrelevant and wading around in it muddles the discussion.] 22:07, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::::::And the spread of an alphabet is irrelevant to the question of the spread of a language. Alphabets are independent of language--the dynamics are quite different. And Maunus is right--the specific mechanism of how Proto-Indo-Aryan arrived in the subcontinent is immaterial to the fact that it arrived from outside. Reading the ridiculous comments elsewhere here (and on the Talk Page of the article), that hundreds of Indo-European cognate sets and 200 years of historical linguistic reconstruction have been thrown out the window reminded me of some of the most laughable nationalistic pseudo-science. There simply is no debate in the legitimate scientific community on this--Indo-Aryan has its origins in central Ukraine (or, less likely, Anatolia) and Proto-Indo-European. --] (]) 22:36, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
''P.S. if you think I'm in the right I'd appreciate it if you reverted it for me so that I don't get into trouble for edit wars.'' | |||
::::: Our page doesn't say that the Vedas were imported from the outside. Heaven forbid! We would get nailed to the wall if we said anything like that. However, historians know that some aspects of this religion: animal sacrifice, fire worship etc., must have existed prior to their arrival in India because they also show up in other regions: Iran and Greece etc. The same kind of comparative method used in linguistics is also being used to reconstruct the religion, literary traditions etc. of the ancestors, but all that is still in infancy. ] (]) 20:05, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
Thank you all for your time. | |||
:::::: Okay perhaps that needs to be made clearer -that long origins section seems like it is intended to explain the origins of the Vedas to a casual newbie reader. It doesn't make too clear what aspects of the previous religions are thought to be relevant to the Vedas, maybe if that was explained it would be clearer. I'm referring to ] and for instaqnce "The Vedic beliefs and practices of the pre-classical era were closely related to the hypothesised Proto-Indo-European religion, and the Indo-Iranian religion. According to Anthony, the Old Indic religion probably emerged among Indo-European immigrants in the contact zone between the Zeravshan River (present-day Uzbekistan) and (present-day) Iran". Which would seem to suggest the Vedas came from Iran at a first read. And if that's not what it is about - why give so much space in this article to this discussion? ] (]) 21:36, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
] (]) 06:07, 12 January 2025 (UTC) ] (]) 06:07, 12 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
And please note that this is regarding the text in the ] article. ] (]) 06:15, 12 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:In fact the Britannica is absolutely clear and unequivocal about this: "Vedic religion, also called Vedism, the religion of the ancient ''Indo-European-speaking peoples who entered India about 1500 bce from the region of present-day Iran''" You are really just demonstrating that you don't know what the "fringe hypothesis" actually is. You are confusing the idea of an "invasion" of "Aryans" (hence 'use of the term Aryan as a racial designation') with the largely accepted view that Vedic culture evolved from an earlier Indo-European religion as a result of the expansion and migration of early I-E peoples. There's nothing remotely fringe about that. You are just sowing confusion and adding to muddle created by the confused comments here of Blademulti. ] (]) 19:27, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:If the best source you can find to demonstrate the prevalence of a position is a blog post published in a pop science rag, then it is quite possibly a fringe position. <span style="border-radius:2px;padding:3px;background:#1E816F">]<span style="color:#fff"> ‥ </span>]</span> 06:19, 12 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
*Generally whenever one feels the need to preface a statement with "I am not knowledgeable about this area" that would be a cause for reconsidering the urge to participate in a complex discussion about that specific topic.] 19:33, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::FYI:. Robert is collecting reasons to propose a topic-ban. ] -] 19:36, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
:The ] and ] articles must both tell the reader that misogyny is a huge deal and misandry is comparatively minor and recent. That's because the people who make the most noise in social media about misandry—members of the ]—have been pushing a ] to get more sympathy for their cause. They keep saying that misandry is a huge deal, much the same as misogyny. Scholars who study these issues have formed a consensus against the MRM position, saying that misogyny has a few thousand years of terrible mistreatment of women, while misandry is about 1 percent of that, as it is a recent accusation, representing a backlash against the advances of feminism. Topic scholars making this description include David G. Gilmore, Marc Ouellette, Heidi R. Riggio, ], Alice E. Marwick, Robyn Caplan, ] and ], among many others. These are all cited in the misandry article. In fact, contradicting the MRM claims, saying that feminists in general do not hate men. It's a thing. ] (]) 06:44, 12 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::: It's on the disambiguation page for ] so - it's an understandable mistake I hope? Never said I was expert on this, and trying to help. If that section of Enc. Brit. is not relevant, how about finding another similar encyclopedia entry, to help clarify this, maybe in a more specialized encyclopedia on religion, whether it is regarded as a fringe theory? You get many professors and some of them have fringe theories and being a Harvard professor doesn't mean that you can't also publish fringe theories from time to time, so I think arguments like that are unlikely to settle the debate by themselves. Just a thought. If what I say is not helpful, I just offer my apologies to you all! ] (]) 19:44, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
::Just because it's newer doesn't mean it's a minor issue, and misandry doesn't have to mean that feminists in general hate men. Do the sources you listed also state that it's a consensus that misandry is a minor issue? To clarify, are they claiming that they think it's a minor issue or are they stating that it's the consensus? Perhaps you could point to specific from the sources? | |||
::@] I wasn't sure it was a blog post, but I did see the person writing the article had a PHD, and I saw some other places on google scholar stating that too. | |||
::] (]) 07:05, 12 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::The ] is on you to demonstrate the proposed changes represent positions in proportion to their prominence in the body of reliable sources. This is something the post above goes much farther in demonstrating, even citing a survey of many relevant scholars. <span style="border-radius:2px;padding:3px;background:#1E816F">]<span style="color:#fff"> ‥ </span>]</span> 07:14, 12 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::{{tq|Just because it's newer doesn't mean it's a minor issue}} Then it's a good thing that nobody said that was the reason for it being a minor issue. --] (]) 09:57, 12 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::Sounds like “comparatively minor” would be more accurate, unless sources state that it is a minor issue on some kind of absolute scale. ] (]) 09:49, 12 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
: It's definitely an issue that has received increased attention. But it does probably need better sourcing to back your stance. I would recommend something like Of Boys and Men by Reeves. Granted, I largely disregard the MRM as weirdos. But the subject has gotten treatment from people who aren't online weirdos.{{pb}}I would also note that misandry doesn't necessarily mean overt and explicit "hatred" of men exclusively. By all accounts, the jerk at the office or the Harvey Weinstein at the job interview doesn't hate women. They're probably very fond of them. But they're also part of a systemic viewpoint that devalues people based on a particular class membership. ]] 14:58, 12 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
: These are the types of claims that should be attributed. Misplaced Pages shouldn't be telling people what issues are important, it should be telling people who thinks what's important and why. Trying to use Misplaced Pages to say "this issue is worse than that one" is textbook POV pushing. And {{u|Wikieditor662}}, keep in mind that it's still edit warring if you ask other people to do it on your behalf, and it's not a good idea to dodge restrictions like that be enlisting others. ] (]) 20:16, 12 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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::Thank you all for your responses, please allow me to address them: | |||
::@] @] If there are reliable sources on a topic giving opposing views, and you claim that one is a minority view, wouldn't the responsibility of proof fall on you? Either way, I tried to find information as to whether scholars have a consensus on the severity of misandry. There is only one thing I found in regards to that: | |||
::1) "Misandry is a very general and very contested term" - Excerpt from ''Sutton, Robbie M., et al. "The false and widespread belief that feminists are misandrists."'' ''(Please note the title isn't related to the issue, as it's about whether misandry is a big issue, not whether feminists are misandrist.)'' | |||
::Note that this was in regards to what the consensus is about Misandry. I can also show you what individual scholars think of Misandry, but again, this may not necessarily represent the consensus: | |||
::"Whether you define misandry as “hatred” or “contempt,” which is … First, misandry is a major | |||
::problem for men and must not be …" | |||
::Source: NathaNsoN, Paul, and KatheriNe K. YouNg. "Misogyny versus Misandry: From" Comparative Suffering" to Inter-Sexual Dialogue." ''New Male Studies'' 3.3 (2014). | |||
::"Mitigation of misogyny and misandry is crucial" | |||
::Source: Oparah, J. S., and Mary Ndubuisi Fidelis. "Misogyny and Misandry: Reasons and Mitigating Strategies in the Sample of Antenatal Patients in Tertiary Health Facilities in Owerri Municipal Imo State, Nigeria." International Journal of Human Kinetics, Health and Education 5.1 (2019). | |||
::These are some of the areas of text I found from google scholar; I'm sure there's plenty more. But except for the one excerpt stating that Misandry is a general and contested term (they may be talking about the general population, so I'm not even sure if that counts), I couldn't find anything about what the consensus is, but it appears to be a nuanced issue amongst scholars from what I see. | |||
::As for the ], some other options would be to only compare it to misogyny (for example what @] suggested, although that example specifically would also require source/s), to mention that it's the counterpart of misogyny but not compare it, or just not mention misandry at all. | |||
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::@] I think Binkstrenet did when he said "misogyny has a few thousand years of terrible mistreatment of women, while misandry is about 1 percent of that, as it is a recent accusation" | |||
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::@] In the first part of your sentence, were you referring to where it says Misandry is a minor issue when you were talking about POV pushing? | |||
::And as for asking people to do the edit on my behalf, I meant after a consensus was reached, I promise it wasn't my intention to escalate an edit war. I apologize if I worded that statement badly. | |||
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::] (]) 03:03, 13 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::''New Male Studies'' is a journal sponsored by the foundation for male studies. of the foundation includes PragerU and random TED talk videos. | |||
:::''International Journal of Human Kinetics'' is not a journal really about human sociology, and is published by a random department in the university of nigeria. | |||
:::These don't pass muster for reliable and due sourcing. ] (]) 03:35, 13 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::I quite specifically pointed to evidence that this position is in the great majority, and am not sure how you missed that. <span style="border-radius:2px;padding:3px;background:#1E816F">]<span style="color:#fff"> ‥ </span>]</span> 03:38, 13 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::The sentence could certainly be worded more impartially. That said, typing a phrase such as into any search engine is going to return biased results. ] and ] are religious scholars whose writings about misandry are outside their field of expertise and have been harshly critiqued by topic experts.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Allan |first1=Jonathan A. |title=Phallic Affect, or Why Men's Rights Activists Have Feelings |journal=Men and Masculinities |date=2016 |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=22–41 |doi=10.1177/1097184X15574338 |url=https://journals-sagepub-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/doi/epub/10.1177/1097184X15574338 |via=The Misplaced Pages Library |language=en |issn=1097-184X}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chunn |first1=Dorothy E. |title=Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men |journal=Canadian Journal of Family Law |date=2007 |volume=23 |issue=1 |page=93 |issn=0704-1225 |id={{ProQuest|228237479}} }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carver |first1=T. F. |author-link=Terrell Carver |title=Review: Spreading Misandry: the teaching of contempt for men in popular culture |journal=International Feminist Journal of Politics |date=2003 |volume=5 |pages=480–481 |issn=1468-4470 |hdl=1983/befd2fcf-8700-46c3-b7c5-aa6caab0e5fd}}</ref> Their views are extremely ] if not outright ]. —] (]) 04:16, 13 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::::@] I thought the information on google scholar was reliable, perhaps I was wrong. That's unfortunate, it means getting reliable sources is a little more difficult. Are you aware of any other easy ways to find reliable sources? | |||
::::@] are you referring to the misandry myth title? As far as I'm aware that's in regards to the viewpoint that feminism is misandrist, so it might be talking about a specific part of misandry rather than all of it. | |||
::::@] I didn't type that in, I typed in things like "misandry" and "what do scholars think of misandry" and "is misandry a problem" into google scholar, but now I'm noticing that also may not be reliable as @] so I'm trying to figure out where else I can check | |||
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:::::Not every source on Google Scholar is reliable. For scholarly sources, check if the journal is peer-reviewed and is well-respected by others. The journals you posted were easy to investigate with a quick google search to see who were sponsoring them, or if they were predatory. Please see also ] and ]. You need to find sourcing that is due, not the first sourcing that validates your point of view. ] (]) 04:39, 13 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:Assuming misandry needs to be mentioned at all in the {{xt|]}} article, then I'd go with others' suggestion to ] of relevant scholars. Copying from the {{xt|]}} article, we could say something like: {{tq|Marc A. Ouellette argues in ''International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities'' that "misandry lacks the systemic, transhistoric, institutionalized, and legislated antipathy of misogyny".<ref name="Ouellette 2007"/> Anthropologist David Gilmore argues that misogyny is a "near-universal phenomenon" and that there is no male equivalent.<ref name="Gilmore p10">{{cite book |last=Gilmore |first=David G. |title=Misogyny: The Male Malady |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |location=Philadelphia |date=2001 |pages=10–13 |isbn=978-0-8122-0032-4}}</ref>}} —] (]) 04:51, 13 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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So this is an interesting article in part because there is absolutely no discussion of the two possible alternatives: high altitude weather balloons on the horizon or lenticular clouds. The flight path's orientation in roughly the direction of the sun is a telling one. However, the dearth of credulous sources about this case makes me wonder how to edit it. Help? | |||
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Water fluoridation controversy
- Water fluoridation controversy (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch
RFK Jr. may belong in the article, but some people insist it has to be in a specific way, which results in lots of edit-warring recently. --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:34, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- Not sure if this is the correct space for this. But why do we call it a "controversy"? There is no reasonable controversy to speak of when we're looking at water fluoridation. We don't call the antivaxxer movement part of a "vaccination controversy", or do we? The nicest terms I've seen used is "hesitancy", as in vaccine hesitancy. I think anti-fluoridation cranks deserve the same treatment as anti-vaxxers. Also, they're mostly the same people... I'm thinking the tone should be more in line with anti-vaccine movement or outright mention misinformation, like in COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy. VdSV9•♫ 12:53, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, deleting the "controversy" part would probably give a better article name. "Opposition to water fluoridation"? But that belongs on the talk page. --Hob Gadling (talk) 14:08, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
- That would be a better name Horse Eye's Back (talk) 14:09, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
- Looks like there has been discussion on the talk page about this: I've moved the article to Opposition to water fluoridation; parts of this article will have to be reworded. GnocchiFan (talk) 14:42, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, deleting the "controversy" part would probably give a better article name. "Opposition to water fluoridation"? But that belongs on the talk page. --Hob Gadling (talk) 14:08, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
- See also Water fluoridation, which is teetering on the brink of an edit war. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:19, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
Gain of function research
Would appreciate editor input with regards to these edits:
Discussion is here: Talk:Gain-of-function_research#Covid_Section_Update_reverted. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 09:21, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
- This is getting so tiring, a self-admitted WP:PROFRINGE editor pushing and pushing lab leak talking points on multiple articles. There are very good sources on this so writing good content is not hard. Bon courage (talk) 09:27, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
- Pushing a partisan as fuck committee report is WP:FRINGE. I think we should be requiring MEDRS level sourcing on this given how politicised it is with people like Rand Paul pushing the conspiracy theories that leads to hyper-partisan committee reports. TarnishedPath 10:13, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
Hello,
I am the person who made the edits in question. I am not a "self-admitted fringe editor," the link provided for that claim is to a talk page discussion from an entirely different user.
I would like to present a succinct argument for my edits;
1. The United States House of Representatives is not a Fringe source, nor is it a conspiratorial organization.
2. Reports generated by the US House are not generally considered the "mere opinions" of those politicians who create them, they are generally considered, at the very least, not conspiratorial. (Some even have their own Misplaced Pages articles)
3. Testimony from a similar event, a US senate hearing, is presented in the paragraph above my proposed edit without any issue.
4. The edit which I revised, following feedback from other editors, includes secondary source reporting on the primary source, and presents criticism and negative reception of the report, so as to not unduly push one side.
5. The report in question was submitted by a bipartisan committee of Congressmen and Congresswomen. Some of the key points received bipartisan support. Other points had disagreement. It is not "hyper-partisan dog excrement."
6. The 500 page report contains mostly hard evidence, including photographs, emails, reports, transcribed sworn testimony, and subpoena testimony. It is not pure conjecture and opinions of the politicians authoring it, it is based on and provides evidence.
7. The question of "Was there US-funded gain of research in China" is not a question which requires scientific expertise to answer. It is not a scientific question, in the way that something like "What are the cleavage sites on a protein" would be. It is a logistical and budgetary question. Thus, the fact that the authors of this report are not scientists is irrelevant and, as the body which is in control of the budget, is exactly within their expertise.
8. Sources which disapprove of the study and respond to it negatively should absolutely be included. But the fact that some secondary sources disapprove of the study is not a reason to exclude it. BabbleOnto (talk) 21:51, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
- 1. The US House of Representatives is full of non-experts touting conspiracy theories. Odd that you would think otherwise.
- 2. Reports generated by the US House are representative of the members who produced them or sponsored their production. Since (1) is true, it is absolutely possible for reports from the US House to be problematic and not representative of the best and most reliable attestations to reality.
- 3.Testimony is only as reliable as the person giving the testimony. Many people giving testimony before Congress are unreliable.
- 4. If a source reports on a primary source with criticism and negative reaction, it may be that the primary source does not deserve inclusion.
- 5. The bipartisanship of a committee is irrelevant to whether the points in question are problematic. Just because a committee is bipartisan does not mean that the offending text is therefore beyond reproach or apolitical.
- 6. "Hard evidence" in the context of academic science needs to be published in relevant academic journal and subject to appropriate peer review.
- 7. "Gain of research" is obviously a typo, but illustrates the point well that expertise is needed to determine whether or not there is any relevant concerns about research funding. The report authors do not seem to have that expertise. Simply being called by Congress is not sufficient.
- 8. We have rules for exclusion as outlined in my response to point (4).
- I think this response illustrates that, intentionally or not, you are functioning as a WP:PROFRINGE WP:POVPUSHer. This is not allowed at Misplaced Pages.
- jps (talk) 22:43, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
- 1. Your opinion on the current members of the house is irrelevant. The US Congress is not a fringe source. See my example provided.
- 2. You just asserted the opposite of my point without any explanation. This isn't a refutation.
- 3. Unless you're arguing any specific testimony in the report is false, that is true, but irrelevant.
- 4. Secondary sources reporting on any topic will be both positive and negative, depending on their own biases. The presence of negative reviews is not dispositive to a source's inclusion.
- 5. The bipartisanship of the committee is completely relevant to the charge that it should be excluded because it is "hyper-partisan."
- 6. "Did the US fund gain-of-function research in China" is not a question which is scientific in nature. Scientific expertise in the field of gain-of-function research is not required to answer that question.
- 7. "Did the US fund gain-of-function research in China" is not a question which is scientific in nature.
- 8. See point 4.
- And I do not appreciate threats being left on my talk page. Extremely inappropriate. BabbleOnto (talk) 02:39, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
- At the very least, it looks like this editor is coming in extremely hot based on the WP:IDHT responses I'm seeing just above my reply to you. With the attitude I'm seeing, it looks like they're heading to the cliff where something at WP:AE or an admin here acting under the COVID CT restrictions due to WP:ADVOCACY, bludgeoning, etc. would be needed. Controversial topics are not the place for new editors to coming in hot while "learning the ropes" and exhaust the community, so this seems like a pretty straightforward case for a topic ban to address that. KoA (talk) 22:55, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
- I directly addressed or refuted the challenges levied against my points. In what way can you claim my responses are WP:IDHT?
- Which of my comments did I fail to substantively defend? I will be happy to do so now. BabbleOnto (talk) 23:31, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
- What is your goal here? jps (talk) 01:40, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'm trying to have the rules, policies, and guidelines, applied.
- The source I've been trying to cite very clearly does not violate WP:FRINGE or WP:UNDUE. A branch of the US government cannot, in any meaningful way, be called "Fringe" as defined by WP:FRINGE, nor can the reports of it be considered "Unsubstantial," as defined by WP:UNDUE.
- Yet, so long as 2 people disagree with source, more specifically, personally disagree with the findings or have a personal vendetta against its authors, it does not matter that my edit is perfectly legitimate and rule-abiding, it will be removed as "Against the consensus."
- Which is not inherently bad, I'm willing to change the edit in response to criticism. But, despite my many efforts to compromise or edit the change, change the wording, add context, add secondary sources, those in opposition refuse to hear any compromise or even provide any constructive criticism.
- There are parts of the article which neither side disagrees are, are as matter of pure fact, incorrect. However, I'm unable to change them, because one side will not approve any source that I use.
- I'm making my case here because I feel I've reached an impasse where the current consensus refuses to listen to any reasonable changes, or any changes at all, even to statements everyone has agreed are just factually wrong. BabbleOnto (talk) 02:31, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- A bunch of politicians certainly can be WP:FRINGE. In every country politicians are known to spout the most arrant nonsense, especially when it comes to science. The burgeoning antiknowledge movement in the USA as exemplified by the current incident is just another example of this. That we have editors signed-up to the same agenda trying to bend Misplaced Pages that way, is a problem. As always, the solution is to use the WP:BESTSOURCES. Bon courage (talk) 03:53, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- I mean . While it doesn't deal that much with the science, I'm fairly sure there is probably some science nonsense in it, and there are far worse reports. Then there is United States House Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood which again mostly not dealing with science AFAIK, did deal with it enough to result in this . While not from the house, there was also the infamous Abortion–breast cancer hypothesis#National Cancer Institute demonstrating that even US federal government agencies aren't immune to publishing nonsense due to political interference. 05:28, 18 December 2024 (UTC) Nil Einne (talk) 05:28, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- New user has absolute faith in something that is clearly not a reliable source and insists on including it. This is a WP:CIR issue and a topic ban would be a good idea. --Hob Gadling (talk) 10:16, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- Agreed. We've had more competent editors receive indefs for pushing WP:FRINGE in this topic area. TarnishedPath 11:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- I like that you decided to pull out wikipedia articles which contain, by your own words "far worse reports." Wouldn't the fact these "Worse" reports are still allowed in the articles be evidence for my point? If worse sources are still allowed in under the rules, why would this "better" source not be? BabbleOnto (talk) 18:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- New user has absolute faith in something that is clearly not a reliable source and insists on including it. This is a WP:CIR issue and a topic ban would be a good idea. --Hob Gadling (talk) 10:16, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- This reply I think best sums up what I have to work with; it is the consensus of other editors that the US Congress is a secret, fringe, conspiratorial group which is secretly manufacturing fake evidence and putting out false reports to prevent the REAL TRUTH from getting out to true believers.
- And I'M the one labeled the conspiracist for disagreeing. BabbleOnto (talk) 18:12, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- Nobody said "secret". That group has been quite openly anti-science for decades. See The Republican War on Science. --Hob Gadling (talk) 09:04, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- I mean . While it doesn't deal that much with the science, I'm fairly sure there is probably some science nonsense in it, and there are far worse reports. Then there is United States House Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood which again mostly not dealing with science AFAIK, did deal with it enough to result in this . While not from the house, there was also the infamous Abortion–breast cancer hypothesis#National Cancer Institute demonstrating that even US federal government agencies aren't immune to publishing nonsense due to political interference. 05:28, 18 December 2024 (UTC) Nil Einne (talk) 05:28, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- A bunch of politicians certainly can be WP:FRINGE. In every country politicians are known to spout the most arrant nonsense, especially when it comes to science. The burgeoning antiknowledge movement in the USA as exemplified by the current incident is just another example of this. That we have editors signed-up to the same agenda trying to bend Misplaced Pages that way, is a problem. As always, the solution is to use the WP:BESTSOURCES. Bon courage (talk) 03:53, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
I directly addressed or refuted the challenges levied against my points.
No. You responded. However, in your response, you have displayed the inability or unwillingness to understand what was being explained to you. That's IDHT. You continuing to claim thatA branch of the US government cannot, in any meaningful way, be called "Fringe"
shows that you're missing the point. As does the repetition thatnor can the reports of it be considered "Unsubstantial," as defined by WP:UNDUE.
even though an explanation has been given on how these reports absolutely can be completely biased, politically motivated, and from a "quality of the source" perspective - be it scientifically, journalistic or just factually -, it is deemed unreliable. VdSV9•♫ 13:00, 18 December 2024 (UTC)A branch of the US government cannot, in any meaningful way, be called "Fringe"
- There has been no substantive explanation of this. Only repeated assertions that it is true, and then an expression of an author's personal dislike for Republicans or the government in general. That is not an explanation as to why the statement, an objective statement, is true.
even though an explanation has been given on how these reports absolutely can be completely biased, politically motivated, and from a "quality of the source" perspective - be it scientifically, journalistic or just factually -, it is deemed unreliable
- Nobody is arguing that the article should be replaced by this report. However, the US Congress's position is very clearly a prominent position. And again, I know you personally believe the US Congress can't be trusted, but WP:UNDUE actually says "Neutrality requires that mainspace articles and pages fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by reliable sources, in proportion to the prominence of each viewpoint in those sources." The US Congress's viewpoint is a significant one, and even if you dislike the original source, there are dozens of reliable secondary sources reporting on it. BabbleOnto (talk) 18:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- You're blatantly wrong here. Politicians saying "science is wrong" is as FRINGE as it gets. 208.87.236.180 (talk) 18:51, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- A question of how much money, if any, was allocated to a certain project, is not a scientific question. BabbleOnto (talk) 18:57, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- We define what is WP:FRINGE based on the WP:BESTSOURCES. A politician with no expertise in medicine is a terrible source for anything related to diseases, and therefore carries no weight in discussion over whether a particular position is WP:FRINGE or not. There are mainstream politicians who deny evolution; that does not change the fact that that denial is a fringe perspective among the best available sources on the topic. Misplaced Pages's purpose, as an encyclopedia, is not to be an arbitrary reflection of what random politicians believe or what the gut feeling of random people on the street might be; it's to summarize the very best sources on every topic (which, in most cases, means academic sources with relevant expertise.) Keep in mind that WP:FRINGE doesn't mean that we omit a position entirely; in an article about government responses to COVID, we could reasonably cover the opinions of lawmakers who contribute to that response, even if their opinions are medically fringe. But our core articles on the topic will be written according to the conclusions of the parts of the medical establishment that have relevant expertise; the gut feelings of politicians with no relevant expertise have no weight or place there at all. --Aquillion (talk) 04:46, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
A politician with no expertise in medicine is a terrible source for anything related to diseases
- The question of 'was there US-funded gain of function research in China" is not an epidemiological question, and is not remotely scientific in nature.
- You're just not addressing why this question is scientific. You're just skipping past that part. Why does an Epidemiologist have to testify as to the US budget? What would they possibly know about Congressional funding? BabbleOnto (talk) 07:02, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- The question what constitutes 'gain of function research' is very much is a scientific question and thus by extension the question "was there US-funded gain of function research in China" is also a scientific one. TarnishedPath 07:31, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- That's a nonsense point. By that logic, the JFK assassination report could not be used to support the claim that JFK died unless a journal by the American Coroner's Association agreed with it. BabbleOnto (talk) 18:55, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- The Member Magazine Of The American society for biochemistry and molecular biology quotes Nicholas Evans as saying "
No one knows exactly what counts as gain-of-function, so we disagree as to what needs oversight, much less what that oversight should be
". Evans specializes in biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. - It is a subject of active debate within the scientific community. Therefore politicians are out of their depth talking about whether there was "US-funded gain of function research in China" when scientists don't agree what that is. TarnishedPath 02:16, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- I originally also had an edit which attempts to discuss this which was also removed. BabbleOnto (talk) 19:33, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- The Member Magazine Of The American society for biochemistry and molecular biology quotes Nicholas Evans as saying "
- That's a nonsense point. By that logic, the JFK assassination report could not be used to support the claim that JFK died unless a journal by the American Coroner's Association agreed with it. BabbleOnto (talk) 18:55, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- The question what constitutes 'gain of function research' is very much is a scientific question and thus by extension the question "was there US-funded gain of function research in China" is also a scientific one. TarnishedPath 07:31, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- We define what is WP:FRINGE based on the WP:BESTSOURCES. A politician with no expertise in medicine is a terrible source for anything related to diseases, and therefore carries no weight in discussion over whether a particular position is WP:FRINGE or not. There are mainstream politicians who deny evolution; that does not change the fact that that denial is a fringe perspective among the best available sources on the topic. Misplaced Pages's purpose, as an encyclopedia, is not to be an arbitrary reflection of what random politicians believe or what the gut feeling of random people on the street might be; it's to summarize the very best sources on every topic (which, in most cases, means academic sources with relevant expertise.) Keep in mind that WP:FRINGE doesn't mean that we omit a position entirely; in an article about government responses to COVID, we could reasonably cover the opinions of lawmakers who contribute to that response, even if their opinions are medically fringe. But our core articles on the topic will be written according to the conclusions of the parts of the medical establishment that have relevant expertise; the gut feelings of politicians with no relevant expertise have no weight or place there at all. --Aquillion (talk) 04:46, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- A question of how much money, if any, was allocated to a certain project, is not a scientific question. BabbleOnto (talk) 18:57, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- First off, you don't
know
anything about what Ipersonally believe
about anything. Looks like you're both poisoning the well and mistaking me for jps... Second, and, of course, more relevant here: a report sponsored by members of Congress is not "The Congress's viewpoint". Thirdly, even if they had an assembly where they discussed the matter and voted or whatever it would take to make something "The Congress's viewpoint", it's questionable if whatever conclusion they came to would be deemed a reliable source and IF that warrants being included in an encyclopedic article about the subject they discussed. Explaining it further would just be repeating what I and others have said before. About your other point of there being articles about other, worse, reports. These reports and their coverage are reliable sources for the articles that talk about the reports themselves. The fact that these have been covered by secondary sources means they are notable enough to get their own articles, not that it's a reliable source. What you are asking for is more akin to using the "findings" of the report mentioned by Hob Gadling on something like Use of fetal tissue in vaccine development or other fetal tissue research related article. VdSV9•♫ 14:14, 19 December 2024 (UTC)The fact that these have been covered by secondary sources means they are notable enough to get their own articles
- This report has also been covered by reliable secondary sources. Why then can this source not at least be mentioned? BabbleOnto (talk) 19:03, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Notability is not the same as reliability.
The fact that these have been covered by secondary sources means they are notable enough to get their own articles
, it doesn't mean they are reliable to be used as a source of information in articles other than the ones about themselves. That was the whole point I was trying to make above, please read again. VdSV9•♫ 19:23, 19 December 2024 (UTC)- If the fact that they were covered by secondary sources doesn't make them reliable, then you never addressed my original point, which is why are other House Reports considered reliable, but this one isn't? BabbleOnto (talk) 19:32, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- VdSV9's last remark is related to WP:ONEWAY. Article about wackos talking about scientific subjects: Sources talking about wackos talking about scientific subjects are OK. Article about scientific subjects such as this one: Sources talking about wackos talking about scientific subjects are not OK. You need to understand that context matters. --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:17, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- If the fact that they were covered by secondary sources doesn't make them reliable, then you never addressed my original point, which is why are other House Reports considered reliable, but this one isn't? BabbleOnto (talk) 19:32, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Notability is not the same as reliability.
- You're blatantly wrong here. Politicians saying "science is wrong" is as FRINGE as it gets. 208.87.236.180 (talk) 18:51, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- What is your goal here? jps (talk) 01:40, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
A branch of the US government cannot, in any meaningful way, be called "Fringe"
Watch me. If it can happen once in an obvious fashion, it can happen again. Ours is not the job to decide it happened, but when reliable sources identify it happening, we aren't in the business of declaring categorically, as though there is something magical about the US Government, that the reliable sources can't possibly have identified something fringe-y being promoted within the hallowed halls of the US Government. jps (talk) 19:06, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- It seems that we have to have this conversation about conspiracism in the US house of representatives regularly. There's a similar conflict at Havana Syndrome because some of the conspiracists in the US house believe the CIA is covering up Russian involvement in the proposed syndrome for vague, poorly defined, reasons. Simonm223 (talk) 19:20, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, the key thing to understand about WP:FRINGE is that it is about where a view stands in relation to the best sources on the subject; it's not a measure of what random people think or what arbitrary big names on unrelated topics believe. This is one of the oldest elements of our fringe policies (since a lot of the policy was hammered out in relation to the creation-evolution controversy, where there very much was a significant political structure devoted to pushing fringe theories aobut it); just because a particular senator doubts evolution doesn't make that perspective non-fringe. Members of the US government are only reliable sources on, at best, the opinions of the US government itself, and even then they'd be a WP:PRIMARY and often self-interested source for that, to be used cautiously. The WP:BESTSOURCES on eg. COVID are medical experts, not politicians (who may have an inherent motivation to grandstand, among other things) with no relevant expertise. Something that is clearly fringe among medical experts remains fringe even if every politician in the US disagrees. --Aquillion (talk) 04:46, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- 1. There are findings which are non-scientific which the report would be used to prove, namely whether or not the US government funded gain-of-function research in China. This is not a scientific claim, and the US government has the absolute most authority on that issue. There is no reason any given medical expert would be qualified at all to talk about this, as it is a logistical and budgetary question, not a scientific or medical one.
- 2. There are also findings which are bipartisan. That is, they aren't just the opinions of one or two, or even an entire party's worth of politicians. They are agreed upon by all members of the committee, Republican and Democrat. That is drastically and categorically different than trying to cite one politician's personal opinion as fact.
- 3. The remaining claims are still substantial, even if you or a large majority of people disagree with them, as a documentation of a significant viewpoint as required under WP:UNDUE. As paraphrased:
If a viewpoint is held by a significant minority, then it should be easy to name prominent adherents
- Clearly the US government is "prominent," even if you believe they're secretly a cabal of anti-scientific fringe conspirators who seek to manipulate the fabric of reality to hide the REAL truth. BabbleOnto (talk) 05:04, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- It is not a usable source. You need to drop the WP:STICK. Bon courage (talk) 05:07, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yes. You've made your opinion abundantly clear. But you have never once provided a valid reason, other than "more people agree with me, so our interpretation of the rule wins."
- I have, at every turn, proven how the source fits the rules. You are overturning the rules in favor of your own, politically motivated consensus. BabbleOnto (talk) 06:59, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- You have, at every turn, proven that you do not understand the rules. Opposing pseudoscience is not politically motivated just because the pseudoscience is politically motivated. --Hob Gadling (talk) 09:15, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- I have consistently proven how my edits fall within the rules. The response has been "We interpret the rules differently and we have a majority, so what's actually written means what we say it does." BabbleOnto (talk) 22:41, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- No, that has not been the response. You do not understand the response or you do not want to understand it. I suggest you should first learn the Misplaced Pages rules in a less fringey topic. --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:17, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- I have consistently proven how my edits fall within the rules. The response has been "We interpret the rules differently and we have a majority, so what's actually written means what we say it does." BabbleOnto (talk) 22:41, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- You have, at every turn, proven that you do not understand the rules. Opposing pseudoscience is not politically motivated just because the pseudoscience is politically motivated. --Hob Gadling (talk) 09:15, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- It is not a usable source. You need to drop the WP:STICK. Bon courage (talk) 05:07, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- The Men Who Stare At Goats Is one of Ronson's best works and illustrative of exactly why placing blind faith in the judgements of the government or military on scientific matters is tantamount to intellectually throwing in the towel and giving up on reality. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 16:47, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- I find this logic hilarious when just 4 years ago good-faith editors get banned for not trusting the government sources or trying to exclude the government as a source on lockdowns and social distancing. Go and read the discussion boards on social distancing from 2020, as I just have. I hope you understand that WP's new opinion of "Government primary sources cannot be used," was literally the exact opposite just four years ago. BabbleOnto (talk) 19:01, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- That's a Strawman. No one is saying that a political report from the legislative branch and the output of public health agencies like the CDC are the same thing. Please try to engage with the arguments others are actually making. MrOllie (talk) 19:54, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Amongst other secondary sources, I've been trying to cite to the DHHS report about EcoHealth. How is that a strawman to point out that the CDC is a completely valid source, but I have been prevented from adding a DHHS report? Do you know what a strawman is? BabbleOnto (talk) 22:43, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- It feels like we're dealing with a WP:MASTADON here. You've been warned about WP:AE sanctions and you don't seem to be accepting what others are telling you. How do you want to proceed? jps (talk) 20:25, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
You've been warned about WP:AE sanctions and you don't seem to be accepting what others are telling you
- I haven't edited anything since being warned. I've complied and haven't tried to edit the article or revert my changes. Don't know what you're threatening here.
How do you want to proceed?
- I would like the parts of the article which are demonstrably false, and supported by perennially approved secondary sources other than the house report and reporting thereto, rectified. Such as the DHHS barring EcoHealth from receiving funds (Other DHHS reports are cited in the article, and the article still says that EcoHealth was cleared from wrongdoing).
- I would of course think at least some mention of the house report, even if negatively, even if only to highlight the secondary source's reception of it, is worthy. But I believe at this point I think some editors are too unwilling to compromise to consider that but, I'll throw it out there. BabbleOnto (talk) 21:40, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- Okay. Well, if you're willing to WP:DROPTHESTICK, I'm sure we can happily help you find other places at this massive project to invest your volunteer time. Maybe give it six months and see if the landscape has changed. After all, there is WP:NODEADLINE. jps (talk) 20:21, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
I haven't edited anything since being warned. I've complied and haven't tried to edit the article or revert my changes. Don't know what you're threatening here
.- Conduct on noticeboards and talk pages is actionable by WP:AE in WP:CTOPs. TarnishedPath 23:10, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- It feels like we're dealing with a WP:MASTADON here. You've been warned about WP:AE sanctions and you don't seem to be accepting what others are telling you. How do you want to proceed? jps (talk) 20:25, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- Amongst other secondary sources, I've been trying to cite to the DHHS report about EcoHealth. How is that a strawman to point out that the CDC is a completely valid source, but I have been prevented from adding a DHHS report? Do you know what a strawman is? BabbleOnto (talk) 22:43, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- That's a Strawman. No one is saying that a political report from the legislative branch and the output of public health agencies like the CDC are the same thing. Please try to engage with the arguments others are actually making. MrOllie (talk) 19:54, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- I find this logic hilarious when just 4 years ago good-faith editors get banned for not trusting the government sources or trying to exclude the government as a source on lockdowns and social distancing. Go and read the discussion boards on social distancing from 2020, as I just have. I hope you understand that WP's new opinion of "Government primary sources cannot be used," was literally the exact opposite just four years ago. BabbleOnto (talk) 19:01, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- BabbleOnto raise valid point: question of US government funding allocations to gain of function research not fall under definition of scientific inquiry and is squarely in purview of US Congress. Dismising report from bipartisan committee undermine the "proportional representation of significant viewpoints" required by WP:NPOV. IntrepidContributor (talk) 07:23, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- I stated above that the question ow what constitutes 'gain of function research' is very much is a scientific question and thus by extension the question "was there US-funded gain of function research in China" is also a scientific one. There has been no substantive rebuttal of what I wrote above. Politicians are out of depth discussing it while scientists don't even agree what it is. TarnishedPath 10:28, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Actually, the controversy of what constitutes 'gain of function research' intersection of science, ethics and public policy, but that is a moot point because we have public testimony from NIH deputy director Lawrence A. Tabak in US congress, which I think is useable in the article. IntrepidContributor (talk) 11:54, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- I originally had that testimony in the article but it was removed. BabbleOnto (talk) 18:57, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- and removing it was the correct course of action. TarnishedPath 05:24, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Uh no. If it's not agreement upon what 'gain of function research' actually is then it would be wildly undue to be referencing government reports, regardless of who is quoted, that it has happened. TarnishedPath 05:22, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- I originally had that testimony in the article but it was removed. BabbleOnto (talk) 18:57, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- By this logic the entire article would need to be rewritten, because currently the article does present a concrete, discrete definition of what gain-of-function research is. If you're seriously claiming there is no consensus as to what gain-of-function research is then the article will need to be rewritten to reflect that. Because currently here is the first line of the article
Gain-of-function research (GoF research or GoFR) is medical research that genetically alters an organism in a way that may enhance the biological functions of gene products.
- Are you suggesting this is not actually the consensus as to what GoF research is, but just one scientist's opinion of what it is? If so, the article would have to be changed to reflect that. In fact the entire article would have to be rewritten to reflect your claim. BabbleOnto (talk) 19:02, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Actually, the controversy of what constitutes 'gain of function research' intersection of science, ethics and public policy, but that is a moot point because we have public testimony from NIH deputy director Lawrence A. Tabak in US congress, which I think is useable in the article. IntrepidContributor (talk) 11:54, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- I stated above that the question ow what constitutes 'gain of function research' is very much is a scientific question and thus by extension the question "was there US-funded gain of function research in China" is also a scientific one. There has been no substantive rebuttal of what I wrote above. Politicians are out of depth discussing it while scientists don't even agree what it is. TarnishedPath 10:28, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
Yakub (Nation of Islam)
Not sure about the new edits. My watchlist has never been so strange as in the last 12 hours. Doug Weller talk 10:09, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- Do you have specific concerns? Looking over the changes, nothing jumped out at me as horrifically problematic, but I'm not reading that closely. Feoffer (talk) 10:17, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- Just wanted a sanity check. :) Also seems ok to me. Doug Weller talk 11:09, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry if any edits were problematic! I am interested in strange things. It's a bit awkward writing the... plot? When it's something like this, but it's unavoidable. PARAKANYAA (talk) 05:42, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- Quite the rabbit hole I just went down with this one. I've added it to my watchlist. :bloodofox: (talk) 10:18, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
"Starving" cancer
- Warburg effect (oncology) (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch
Some new accounts/IPs seem unhappy that the "Quackery" section of Lancet Oncology is being cited to call out the quackery in play here. More eyes needed. Bon courage (talk) 17:53, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
Thomas N. Seyfried
Thomas N. Seyfried is a biochemistry professor who probably passes WP:PROF who seems mainly notable for going on podcasts to tell cancer patients to reject chemotherapy in favour of going on a keto diet. Gorski on Science Based Medicine did a good article on him and his claims , which in light of current RfC alas looks unusable. The article has been subject to persistent whitewashing attempts by IPs (one of which geolocates to where Seyfried works) and SPAs, and additional eyes would be appreciated. Hemiauchenia (talk) 04:00, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- I think he's notable for doing well-cited work on diet/metabolism and (mainly brain) cancer in mouse models, some of which on a quick glance seems reasonably mainstream (see eg Annual Reviews research overview doi:10.1146/annurev-nutr-013120-041149), but notorious for attempting to translate that early research (at best prematurely) into medical advice for people with cancer. We should probably avoid mentioning the issue at all, as none of the sources (either his or those debunking it) fall within the medical project's referencing standards for medical material. Espresso Addict (talk) 12:16, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- People are looking up Seyfried specifically because he is coming onto podcasts to make these claims , and if we omit them then Seyfried looks like a distinguished scientist giving mainstream advice, when he is saying things against the medical consensus. I think it would be better to delete the article than to omit this information. Hemiauchenia (talk) 15:03, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- I fear the problem is that he genuinely is a distinguished scientist, even if he is currently talking in areas in which he appears not to be qualified. Espresso Addict (talk) 16:33, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Agree with this statement in general; it should be a guideline somewhere. Dronebogus (talk) 11:33, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
- I fear the problem is that he genuinely is a distinguished scientist, even if he is currently talking in areas in which he appears not to be qualified. Espresso Addict (talk) 16:33, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- People are looking up Seyfried specifically because he is coming onto podcasts to make these claims , and if we omit them then Seyfried looks like a distinguished scientist giving mainstream advice, when he is saying things against the medical consensus. I think it would be better to delete the article than to omit this information. Hemiauchenia (talk) 15:03, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Modern science and Hinduism
I presume that new article Modern science and Hinduism could do with a thorough check. Fram (talk) 09:07, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- Despite the head note about not confusing it with Vedic science, most of it seems to be about Vedic science. And quite apart from anything else, most of the body of the article seems to be a paraphrase of reference 8. The headings are pretty much identical. Brunton (talk) 09:36, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- The same editor has also started a draft at Draft:Hindu Science Draft with some of the same content. Brunton (talk) 11:04, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- I boldy redirected to vedic science as an alternative to a WP:TNT. I judge maybe a half dozen sentences/ideas may be useful to incorporate over there. jps (talk) 19:42, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- Vedic science itself needs some serious work, particularly given the appropriation of the term by Hindutva. JoelleJay (talk) 21:15, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- Agreed. If nothing else, the creator has pointed out a gaping hole in our coverage. We need something along the lines of an article on Hindutva pseudoscience. Maybe a spin-out from Hindutva itself? jps (talk) 22:31, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- many religions use science apologism to justify faith. best to understand they are mostly means to justify religion to those insecure about it, but pseudoscience might be incorrect term of talking about it.
- I don't mean to say that science proving hinduism right should be taken as a fact (def would break NPOV), but that we would also be wrong to dismiss the beliefs of a worshipper as "pseudoscience" when "religious faith" and "scientific apologism" would be the more correct term to describe this. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 23:51, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- an example of an article section covering scientific apologism a bit better Islamic_attitudes_towards_science#Miracle_literature_(Tafsir'ilmi) Bluethricecreamman (talk) 00:10, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- When there is a concerted effort to replace certain scientific disciplines with religious-inspired belief, that is pretty classic pseudoscience. There are plenty of pieces from respected scientists who are aware of the current political/religious arguments being proffered against scientific understanding within the context of Hindutva who call this kind of posturing "pseudoscience". Misplaced Pages need not shy away from this designation. jps (talk) 23:44, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- What if Hindutva pushes n pseudoscientific positions but n+1 is not pseudoscientific, do we risk n+1 inheriting the posturing stink of the others? Evathedutch (talk) 04:44, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- If Hindutva pushes a position that isn't pseudoscientific, then it shouldn't be discussed in a "Hindutva pseudoscience" article. Brunton (talk) 10:18, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- What if Hindutva pushes n pseudoscientific positions but n+1 is not pseudoscientific, do we risk n+1 inheriting the posturing stink of the others? Evathedutch (talk) 04:44, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- Would a "Hindutva pseudoscience" page focus on the pseudoscientific topics itself or how "Hindutva pseudoscience" is used for other other aims? Evathedutch (talk) 04:43, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- i dont know what hindutva pseudoscience would entail. just pointing out terminology for the phenomenon where some guy tries to argue their religion describes the germ theory/embryology/big bang/etc first before science is scientific apologism not pseudoscience.
- pseudoscience is passing off a fringe topic as science. science apologism is bending religious words to match current theories to argue your god knew it first Bluethricecreamman (talk) 05:58, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- The argument that Hindu astrology or ayurveda or any number of other ideas for which we have no scientific basis are actually "science" is proper pseudoscience. But "science apologism" is also pseudoscience especially in the context of arguments where there is claim that the particular religious idea predated the scientific context and was therefore privy to the evidence that led to later scientific developments. jps (talk) 01:15, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
- I trimmed most of the unsourced puffery added on 21 November. Frankly though whether the article should exist at all should be examined; it might be ripe for AfD. Crossroads 22:00, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Agreed. If nothing else, the creator has pointed out a gaping hole in our coverage. We need something along the lines of an article on Hindutva pseudoscience. Maybe a spin-out from Hindutva itself? jps (talk) 22:31, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- The creator of the article had the username "HindutvaWarriors" until a bit over a week ago. Brunton (talk) 21:24, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- Vedic science itself needs some serious work, particularly given the appropriation of the term by Hindutva. JoelleJay (talk) 21:15, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- I boldy redirected to vedic science as an alternative to a WP:TNT. I judge maybe a half dozen sentences/ideas may be useful to incorporate over there. jps (talk) 19:42, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- Gonna add a reference section to the bottom of the article.CycoMa2 (talk) 22:41, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
The main paper promoting hydroxychloroquine as a Covid treatment has been withdrawn.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04014-9
I doubt this'll shut up the pro-fringe users, but now all of their "evidence" can be tossed outright. 2603:7080:8F00:49F1:8D86:230:8528:4CDC (talk) 23:42, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- Just to be clear, the paper was retracted by the journal's co-owners. The word "withdrawn" is often associated with an action taken by a paper's authors, which is not the situation here. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 17:33, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for the clarification. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:41, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/Social_thinking
No clue if it's a fringe therapy for autism or not... apparently theres at least one scientific article discussing it as a pseudoscience , but i can't really tell if it falls under that or not. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 20:09, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
David and Stephen Flynn
There is an ongoing effort at David and Stephen Flynn to remove or whitewash these individual's medical misinformation section. I believe additional eyes would be helpful on this page. --VVikingTalkEdits 15:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- On the noticeboard Biographies of living persons I've requested help because this situation needs a review by neutral, experienced editors to ensure compliance with Misplaced Pages’s neutrality and verifiability guidelines.
- The previous edits are one-sided, hence several attempts have been made to improve the neutrality of the section by adding balanced context and reliable sources to reflect differing perspectives.
- In the "careers" section, edits have repeatedly removed references to David and Stephen Flynn stopping collaboration with Russell Brand, implying continued support despite this not being true.
- Specific concerns with the medical section include:
- 1. The section title “Medical Misinformation” is to make it sensational; hence, changed it into “Health Advice and Public Response” instead.
- 2. Peer-reviewed studies and mainstream media articles, were added for context but reverted without justification.
- 3. Efforts to clarify the Flyns’ acknowledgment of errors and removal of contentious content have also been ignored. SabLovesSunshine (talk) 17:09, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- I've started a convo on the article talk page. Please continue there. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 18:24, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns
Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Some WP:PROFRINGE editing from an account with <1000 edits. I don't have time to engage with them further over the holiday (and I'm at 3RR on this article anyway). Other experienced editors are invited to take a look. Note this response I left on their user talk page to their most recent revert. Cheers, Generalrelative (talk) 00:01, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
- You added a cite and I quoted it verbatim. If it's a fringe source, why did you add it? Hi! (talk) 09:39, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
- You quoted it selectively to highlight a caveat as though it were the central point of the piece. This looked an awful lot like WP:POINT, as did your subsequent edits to the page. Generalrelative (talk) 13:57, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
- Just noticed Turkheimer had this out in November: Turkheimer, Eric. "IQ, Race, and Genetics". Understanding the Nature‒Nurture Debate. Understanding Life. Cambridge University Press. fiveby(zero) 18:20, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
- You quoted it selectively to highlight a caveat as though it were the central point of the piece. This looked an awful lot like WP:POINT, as did your subsequent edits to the page. Generalrelative (talk) 13:57, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
Cult whitewashing
See , , and . tgeorgescu (talk) 02:30, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- I've reverted them. I see long-term Grail SPA @Creolus: whitewashed the Abd's article two months ago so I just reverted them as well. Hemiauchenia (talk) 02:55, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- Also noting for posterity that I've managed to find another decent English-language source on the topic , don't know if there are any more in German. Hemiauchenia (talk) 03:01, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yup, in his Grail Message he distinguished between the Son of God (Jesus Christ) and the Son of Man (himself). The morals of the book was that Christ was a loser, while Bernhardt is a winner. tgeorgescu (talk) 03:50, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- I really feel that if you are to stay objective, then you should look at the evidence to come to a conclusion. It's not whitewashing if you choose to use the author's exact words to represent his legacy whilst stating the interpretation of others which are not really in accord with the author's wishes or actions.
- And worthy of note, I'm not a member of the grail movement but even they shouldn't be banned from editing if the content brought is true and verifiable. 2A00:23C8:E70F:C001:A5BF:3554:E7D:7FCF (talk) 03:54, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hmmm... that's not how Misplaced Pages works. We prefer WP:IS WP:SECONDARY sources written by real scholars to a WP:IN-UNIVERSE view of the religious believers. See emic and etic.
- Also, religious preachers often state "Go left!" when they go right. We don't take WP:PRIMARY religious writings at face value. We don't take Bernhardt's statement that he preaches the rationally intelligible version of Jesus's message, but essentially the same message, at face value.
- He knew that saying "Let's do like the primary Christians" was tantamount to founding a new sect. Because there were plenty of historical examples of that. tgeorgescu (talk) 05:20, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
use the author's exact words to represent his legacy
- No. That's just propaganda, not reliably sourced information. — The Hand That Feeds You: 17:58, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- Service: Grail Movement (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch
- For those who are already watching the article and do not want to destroy their last-version-seen bookmark by clicking directly on a newer version. --Hob Gadling (talk) 09:05, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- For what it's worth I've comprehensively rewritten the article on the Grail Movement based on the very useful encyclopedia entry. Hemiauchenia (talk) 19:43, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
Heliocentrism
Recently there was a statement which is added in heliocentrism article which claims that vedic philosopher Yajnavalkya (c. 900–700 Century BCE) proposed Yajnavalkya's theory of heliocentrism stating that the Sun was "the center of the spheres".The problem is that the reference given below is just a misinterpretation of the text which claims that vedic scholar knew about heliocentrism way before Aristachus of samos and was the first to do so.I have reverted the edit but it is keep on adding by other users.It is traditionally accepted in mainstream academia that the first person to propose heliocentrism is the ancient Greek astronomer aristachus of samos and any theory before him isn't accepted by mainstream academia or it is considered as fringe theory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Myuoh kaka roi (talk • contribs) 06:10, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- You didn't explain how it was "misinterpretation" of the text rather than direct mention of the authors 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 14:28, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Authors in the reference themselves misinterpreted the the text which states that the
as heliocentrism but heliocentrism itself states that the sun is the centre of the universe and planets revolve around the sun and secondly there is no mention of original text by authors in their reference most of them rely on tertiary sources and the statement itself is unscientific as it is widely accepted in scientific and mainstream academia that the first person to propose heliocentrism is the ancient Greek philosopher aristachus of samos Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 15:11, 28 December 2024 (UTC)Sun is the centre of spheres
- Here are some reliable sources which talks about astronomy in indiaNone of them talks anything related to vedic heliocentrism. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 16:03, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- You didn't mention how Yajnavalkya's mention is interpreted in Heliocentric context.Vedic era philosopher Yajnavalkya (c. 900–700 Century BCE) proposed elements of heliocentrism stating that the Sun was "the center of the spheres". 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 17:37, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- It doesn't equate to heliocentrism as it's just a religious interpretation so it doesn't belong to the article and Secondly, J.Gregory; Henley, Ernest M (2012). Physics Around Us: How And Why Things Work. World Scientific Publishing Company Isn't even credible source as neither of them are experts in these fields.Even the description of the book claims that it is suitable for a first year, non-calculus physics course not a peer reviewed journal.Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 17:44, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- All of the sources are authentic, nonetheless there are probably more to it, I ill discuss in that particular page of the article. 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 18:46, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- See here 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 18:46, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Just because World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc is used to publish research paper and project that doesn't mean that all research papers are credible and I had already discussed in my previous comment that the book is meant for first year non calculus students.Research books required to be reviewed by authors who are expert in that particular field to give it a peer review . Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 19:11, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- So what, You can't dismiss it's credibility on Anything; There are multiple other cite besided that. 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 19:31, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Most other sources you provided aren't credible that's the reason why it got removed. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 19:43, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Credible on what basis, Yesterday or early today you were arguing good publication like Oxford Cambridge to provide and seemingly thats the only basis, and somehow provided you want other criteria and somehow getting your own opinion or research being given that way. 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 19:50, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Most other sources you provided aren't credible that's the reason why it got removed. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 19:43, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- So what, You can't dismiss it's credibility on Anything; There are multiple other cite besided that. 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 19:31, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Just because World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc is used to publish research paper and project that doesn't mean that all research papers are credible and I had already discussed in my previous comment that the book is meant for first year non calculus students.Research books required to be reviewed by authors who are expert in that particular field to give it a peer review . Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 19:11, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- See here 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 18:46, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- All of the sources are authentic, nonetheless there are probably more to it, I ill discuss in that particular page of the article. 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 18:46, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- It doesn't equate to heliocentrism as it's just a religious interpretation so it doesn't belong to the article and Secondly, J.Gregory; Henley, Ernest M (2012). Physics Around Us: How And Why Things Work. World Scientific Publishing Company Isn't even credible source as neither of them are experts in these fields.Even the description of the book claims that it is suitable for a first year, non-calculus physics course not a peer reviewed journal.Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 17:44, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Let's keep the discussion on one page-it will be easy rather switching. 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 18:16, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- You didn't mention how Yajnavalkya's mention is interpreted in Heliocentric context.Vedic era philosopher Yajnavalkya (c. 900–700 Century BCE) proposed elements of heliocentrism stating that the Sun was "the center of the spheres". 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 17:37, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Authors in the reference themselves misinterpreted the the text which states that the
References
- https://books.google.co.in/books?id=kt9DIY1g9HYC&pg=PA317&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Subbarayappa, B. V. (14 September 1989). "Indian astronomy: An historical perspective". In Biswas, S. K.; Mallik, D. C. V.; Vishveshwara, C. V. (eds.). Cosmic Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. pp. 25–40. ISBN 978-0-521-34354-1.
- Dash, J.Gregory; Henley, Ernest M (2012). Physics Around Us: How And Why Things Work. World Scientific Publishing Company. p. 115. ISBN 9789813100640.
Does the lead of Hamlet's Mill cover the criticism sufficiently?
I don't think it does. The biography of one of the authors, Giorgio de Santillana, mentions the book but no criticism of it. Doug Weller talk 10:13, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
Courtesy notice: RfC on NewsNation
For your awareness, I've opened an RfC here on the reliability of NewsNation, a frequent source used for UFO coverage on WP. Chetsford (talk) 19:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the notice, even if I do not agree with the deprecation/depreciation system. Emir of Misplaced Pages (talk) 20:33, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
- You're welcome, even if I do not agree with your disagreement. Chetsford (talk) 21:58, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
Talk:COVID-19 lab leak theory
I think we need more eyes on the talk page for COVID-19 lab leak theory regarding multiple discussion threads there. There's been a lot of WP:SPA and new account activity over the past two months and there should really be broader community involvement so WP:LOCALCONSENSUS issues don't occur. There's several instances of comments currently on the talk page where accounts more or less openly state that they're trying to make POV changes because the scientific community is covering up the facts. Silverseren 21:58, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
The Newport Tower, a 12th century Norse baptistry?
Of course not, But an ex-navy graduate student has managed to get a paper claiming this into a book published by Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Coğrafya ve Kartografya (Geography and Cartography in the Ottoman Empire), eds. Mahmut Ak and Ahmet Üstüner, 201-86. Istanbul: Istanbul University Press, 2024 . An article I wrote long ago might be relevant here.. Doug Weller talk 10:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Found him being used in one article and deleted it. It was obviously a good faith addtion. Doug Weller talk 14:12, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- He's emailed me demanding it be added to the Newport Tower article as it has been peer reviewed. Doug Weller talk 14:56, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Taken it to RSN. Doug Weller talk 16:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- He's emailed me demanding it be added to the Newport Tower article as it has been peer reviewed. Doug Weller talk 14:56, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
New fringe article Luso–Danish expedition to North America
Among other issues is used as a source. Also see Cartographic expeditions to Greenland where that article has been added through the redirect Pining expedition. We don't even know if John Scolvus was a real person. Doug Weller talk 16:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- AfD'd it. I would have thrown up a speedy delete but I imagined it'd pass some very quick smell check with the way it's written looking more legitimate than normal fringe nonsense here. Didrik_Pining#Alleged_trip_to_America seems to have everything needed for now. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 18:08, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- And now we have Portuguese Newfoundland also saying the Portuguese got there first, same fringe book as source. Doug Weller talk 09:15, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- AFDd this, as well. It does appear there's a few adherents to these ideas around Misplaced Pages and the writing quality is high enough to mask the patent garbage underlying, which is a nuissance as it sort of rules out speedy deletion. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 11:23, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- And now we have Portuguese Newfoundland also saying the Portuguese got there first, same fringe book as source. Doug Weller talk 09:15, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
Harald Walach
Homeopathy crank, involved in the anti-Ernst smear campaign a few years back. (de:Claus Fritzsche was paid by Big Homeopathy to tell lies about Edzard Ernst, was exposed in an article in a major newspaper, "The dirty methods of the gentle medicine", was dropped by Big Homeopathy like a hot potato, killed himself. Walach blamed the skeptics for that.) Should his involvement be in the article? --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:13, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
Seed oil misinformation
New IP address on talk claiming there is evidence seed oils are driving chronic disease. The usual suspects cited including a paper by James DiNicolantonio that is often cited by the paleo diet community. User is requesting that the article be renamed "Health effects of seed oils". See discussion on talk-page. Psychologist Guy (talk) 11:35, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
Electrohomeopathy
The article Electrohomeopathy appears to be in the middle of a months long Edit War to remove any mention of it being quackery or pseudoscience. I would appreciate some extra set of eyes on this article, specifically people that have more experience in this type of article. --VVikingTalkEdits 14:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- Rewrote some of the intro to call it quackery, which thankfully wasn't hard to cite. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 18:13, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
Off-wiki coordination on Circumcision related articles
It looks like the 'intactivists' are coordinating off-Wiki to influence circumcision related articles. I was made aware of this at User talk:RosaSubmarine. To quote that editor:
As we speak, pages on children's rights, female genital mutilation, human's rights, male circumcision, and genital modification and mutilation have all been recently improved upon editor notice.
More watchlisting on affected articles would be greatly appeciated. MrOllie (talk) 18:02, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- I'm not touching that article with a ten foot pole but surely the fact that the entire bioethical debate is relegated to a single sentence when it's highly contentious within that field makes an argument that the folks coordinating have a point? The question mark is sincere there, I assume any point I could bring up has already been argued to death by people who know more than I. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 09:10, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- The wiki linked on that Talk page quotes Larry Sanger and the Heartland Institute. If those people "have a point", it is by random chance since LS and HI are both, let's say, not among the 8.1 billion most trustworthy people on Earth. This is likely a very WP:PROFRINGE operation. --Hob Gadling (talk) 11:15, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- It's a big topic and written summary style. Most of the relevant content should be at Ethics of circumcision or Circumcision controversies and not the places the new editors have been putting things. MrOllie (talk) 12:22, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- I actually don't really agree the summary style used there is a good one. Dumping the ethical concerns into their own article while keeping the religious concerns (which are inherently ethical concerns) present a WP:POVFORK.
- But again, ten foot pole etc. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 14:08, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- If the choice is between summary style (since a specialized article exists) and huge manifestos that solely aim at maximal visibility of a particular POV (massive tables in the lede, excessive blockquotes), then the short-term solution is obvious. For balanced, sensible extensions beyond summary style, there is sufficient room to discuss in the respective talk pages. –Austronesier (talk) 13:01, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- I'm already involved in enough eternal dumpster fire articles for me to want to get too involved in this one. :) Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 13:06, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- If the choice is between summary style (since a specialized article exists) and huge manifestos that solely aim at maximal visibility of a particular POV (massive tables in the lede, excessive blockquotes), then the short-term solution is obvious. For balanced, sensible extensions beyond summary style, there is sufficient room to discuss in the respective talk pages. –Austronesier (talk) 13:01, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Obviously the meatpuppery is a problem, but I do not really see how any of this is related to a fringe theory. It seems like a pretty clear case of activist editing to right great wrongs, which, while misguided, does not really try to introduce fringe views. The "intactwiki" article cited at the beginning of their response is obviously trash that does not help their case, but I believe they are if anything mostly a new user not yet familiar with how things are done here. I tried to point them in a better direction in the discussion on their talk page Choucas Bleu 🐦⬛ 17:55, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- We get waves of this business on Misplaced Pages. The main fringey positions will be attempts to draw equivalence between female genital mutilation and male circumcision. This is often a precursor to fringe medical claims (intactivists like to overstate complication rates in particular) and sometimes antisemitic conspiracy theories show up as well. MrOllie (talk) 19:05, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- That there is a notable equivalency, not in terms of harm or the damage caused, but in terms of ethical concerns around consent is a completely mainstream perspective within bioethics and calling it a fringe stance feels like using WP:FRINGE as a cudgel. That’s why dumping any concerns into their own article is a POV fork. I think it’s extremely disingenuous to discount the very real and ongoing discussions around bioethics as a fringe stance, even if the attempts to twist the harms to make it more equivalent to FGM are POV-pushing fringe edits.
- We get waves of this business on Misplaced Pages. The main fringey positions will be attempts to draw equivalence between female genital mutilation and male circumcision. This is often a precursor to fringe medical claims (intactivists like to overstate complication rates in particular) and sometimes antisemitic conspiracy theories show up as well. MrOllie (talk) 19:05, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Literally the first line of the Ethics of circumcision article is the statement:
- There is substantial disagreement amongst bioethicists and theologians over the practice of circumcision
- Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 09:12, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Correct. But there isn't substantial disagreement about FGM, which is why one side of the argument finds it useful to draw a false equivalence on that point. MrOllie (talk) 13:49, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- I think enough WP:RS sources would disagree about there being no equivalency at all that brining this to FTN instead of an appropriate venue for dealing with the offsite coordination and asserting that it’s WP:FRINGE feels quite inappropriate? Either way, I’m not going to get suckered into this one and will leave it be :) Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 14:35, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- My opinion is that the obvious RGW canvassing and meat-puppetry are obviously bad and should be dealt with accordingly, but also the serious ethical debate around the subject shouldn’t be casually downplayed as purely “fringe”. This is an NPOV issue more than anything. It’d be like saying “opposition to human trafficking is fringe” because some Qanon weirdos are brigading articles about it— mainstream topics always have fringe positions within them, without being fringe themselves. Dronebogus (talk) 11:42, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
- I think enough WP:RS sources would disagree about there being no equivalency at all that brining this to FTN instead of an appropriate venue for dealing with the offsite coordination and asserting that it’s WP:FRINGE feels quite inappropriate? Either way, I’m not going to get suckered into this one and will leave it be :) Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 14:35, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Correct. But there isn't substantial disagreement about FGM, which is why one side of the argument finds it useful to draw a false equivalence on that point. MrOllie (talk) 13:49, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 09:12, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
John Yudkin
- John Yudkin (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch
I have no idea how right or wrong exactly he was, but sentences like The efforts of the food industry to discredit the case against sugar were largely successful
sound exactly like what we hear from fringe pushers. Characterizing a rather sensible-sounding sentence by Ancel Keys as rancorous language and personal smears
is inappropriate too. Who has the competence to improve this? --Hob Gadling (talk) 12:16, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
The efforts of the food industry to discredit the case against sugar were largely successful
- Is this a fringe view? I was under the impression that this was as generally accepted as the history of the tobacco industry. GMG 14:53, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- No it was mostly exaggeration. There were only a handful of sugar industry funded studies on CVD. The article has been on my watchlist for a while, many Misplaced Pages articles in the past cited this credulous Guardian piece written by Ian Leslie promoting a conspiracy theory about the sugar industry which takes its information from low-carber Robert Lustig who is completely unreliable. John Yudkin was an early low-carb author who rejected the evidence for saturated fat and CVD risk; instead he blamed sugar. Robert Lustig promoted a lot of conspiracy theories defending Yudkin. There are a handful of old studies funded by the sugar industry that investigated cardiovascular disease but low-carbers like Lustig and Gary Taubes exaggerate and claim there were hundreds. It would be worth removing Ian Leslie's unreliable article as a source from the article, it promotes WP:Fringe and sensationalistic claims. Psychologist Guy (talk) 15:07, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Umm... I'm not sure that's the prevailing modern view. GMG 15:13, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- I have read that paper many times. It is a favourite of the low-carb community. The paper you cited is talking about the 1960s and its cites unreliable sources like Gary Taubes and Nina Teicholz. D. Mark Hegsted received a one off payment from the Sugar Association for $6500 for a review of research. There is no evidence for 100s of studies funded by the sugar industry, if you think there is please list them. The claims are exaggerated, that's why they have so few examples. Back in the 1960s the standards of disclosure were less stringent than they are today. Hegstead also received funding from the dairy industry for his research but of course that isn't mentioned in the paper because it doesn't suit their narrative. The modern prevailing view is that high saturated fat consumption is bad for health. All the guidelines recommend limiting processed sugar but it isn't considered the main risk factor for CVD. There are many risk factors. The "blame only sugar" approach for CVD or all chronic disease is definitely a WP:Fringe view, and no different than what we are now seeing with seed oil misinformation. Psychologist Guy (talk) 16:34, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Here is Hegstead's 1967 review , can you find any faults in the methodology? The paper admits to having received funding from the "Special Dairy Industry Board". The paper you cited by Cristin E Kearns doesn't mention this. Here Is Hegstead's conclusion from the paper: "The major evidence today suggests only one avenue by which diet may affect the development and progression of atherosclerosis. This is by influencing the serum lipids, especially serum cholesterol, though this may take place by means of different biochemical mechanisms not yet understood". Dude was right in 1967 with over 50 years of research since supporting that conclusion. Plenty of clinical evidence has since confirmed the lipid hypothesis. Most of what Yudkin was saying has not been confirmed. Psychologist Guy (talk) 16:46, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- I have read that paper many times. It is a favourite of the low-carb community. The paper you cited is talking about the 1960s and its cites unreliable sources like Gary Taubes and Nina Teicholz. D. Mark Hegsted received a one off payment from the Sugar Association for $6500 for a review of research. There is no evidence for 100s of studies funded by the sugar industry, if you think there is please list them. The claims are exaggerated, that's why they have so few examples. Back in the 1960s the standards of disclosure were less stringent than they are today. Hegstead also received funding from the dairy industry for his research but of course that isn't mentioned in the paper because it doesn't suit their narrative. The modern prevailing view is that high saturated fat consumption is bad for health. All the guidelines recommend limiting processed sugar but it isn't considered the main risk factor for CVD. There are many risk factors. The "blame only sugar" approach for CVD or all chronic disease is definitely a WP:Fringe view, and no different than what we are now seeing with seed oil misinformation. Psychologist Guy (talk) 16:34, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Umm... I'm not sure that's the prevailing modern view. GMG 15:13, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- No it was mostly exaggeration. There were only a handful of sugar industry funded studies on CVD. The article has been on my watchlist for a while, many Misplaced Pages articles in the past cited this credulous Guardian piece written by Ian Leslie promoting a conspiracy theory about the sugar industry which takes its information from low-carber Robert Lustig who is completely unreliable. John Yudkin was an early low-carb author who rejected the evidence for saturated fat and CVD risk; instead he blamed sugar. Robert Lustig promoted a lot of conspiracy theories defending Yudkin. There are a handful of old studies funded by the sugar industry that investigated cardiovascular disease but low-carbers like Lustig and Gary Taubes exaggerate and claim there were hundreds. It would be worth removing Ian Leslie's unreliable article as a source from the article, it promotes WP:Fringe and sensationalistic claims. Psychologist Guy (talk) 15:07, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
2019 Military World Games
Noticed this since it was linked in some COVID-19 talk page. An editor keeps adding this conspiracy theory about COVID-19 based largely on 2020 sources including sources which contradict what they're adding. I intend to bring them to ARE next time they try, but in case ARE doesn't see it the same way it would be helpful to get more eyes on this. Nil Einne (talk) 13:22, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- To give an example of a contradiction, the edit says "
The National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI - a branch of the DIA within the USIC) based in Fort Detrick, MD, provided an intelligence report soon after the end of the Military World Games that indicated a contagion had begun spreading in the Wuhan region; this intelligence report was shared only with NATO member states and the state of Israel.
" So it's presenting this as something factual that did happen. But one of the very sources used specifically includes an explicit denial of such a report "No such NCMI product exists," the statement said.
" While government statements can't always be trusted, with such an explicit denial reported by the very source we're using, if we're going to present the report as something factual as the editor is trying to do, we'd need strong evidence that this reported is widely accepted to exist despite this denial but there is none in those sources. And this is from April 2020. No sources have been provided demonstrating that anyone in 2025 still thinks this report exists and that's with a change in administration in the US and all else that's gone on since then. I'd note this also seems to contradict the timeline of COVID-19 which suggests it was first identified in December 2019, or with November 17 given as the earliest date in our Origin of SARS-CoV-2 article meaning it is inherently impossible for there to be a report in the 2nd week of November. Nil Einne (talk) 13:40, 4 January 2025 (UTC)- I think we can go ahead and mention that the claims exist, but with much less WP:WEIGHT. I've trimmed it down to one short paragraph that properly balances everything (mentions that the rumors exist, then states why they are false). Diff. –Novem Linguae (talk) 08:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks, I don't see a problem with that. I did consider drastically reducing and leaving something in but frankly it was such a mess with all the 2020 sources and even one or two from 2019 (which while the games were in 2019, was well before any talk of COVID so raised strong WP:Syn concerns) that I decided not to bother since it didn't seem that important. I did miss the 2022 source somehow which make it seem more likely we should mention it (since it isn't just something people make a big deal of in April 2020 then completely forgot about). Nil Einne (talk) 03:35, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- I was reverted. Might need more eyes, or an RFC. –Novem Linguae (talk) 05:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks, I don't see a problem with that. I did consider drastically reducing and leaving something in but frankly it was such a mess with all the 2020 sources and even one or two from 2019 (which while the games were in 2019, was well before any talk of COVID so raised strong WP:Syn concerns) that I decided not to bother since it didn't seem that important. I did miss the 2022 source somehow which make it seem more likely we should mention it (since it isn't just something people make a big deal of in April 2020 then completely forgot about). Nil Einne (talk) 03:35, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- I think we can go ahead and mention that the claims exist, but with much less WP:WEIGHT. I've trimmed it down to one short paragraph that properly balances everything (mentions that the rumors exist, then states why they are false). Diff. –Novem Linguae (talk) 08:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Acupuncture, Hypnotherapy references in Jaw Dislocation article
In the article about Jaw Dislocation, in the treatment section, lies some dubious claims hidden in otherwise rational and sourced claims:
The different modalities include patient education and self-care practices, medication, physical therapy, splints, psychological counseling, relaxation techniques, biofeedback, hypnotherapy, acupuncture, and arthrocentesis.
(Emphasis added)
This edit was added without a source and then a source was added a few minutes later. The source is behind a paywall, but when I got through it, I don't see any mention of hypnotherapy, acupuncture, or biofeedback at all. Even when I went to the separate page about treatments, again no mention of hypnotherapy, acupuncture, or biofeedback. (And to be frank, no mention of relaxation techniques, psychological counseling, or splints, either, but those seem to at least be more plausible.)
I think an editor put those into the actual treatments hoping no one would notice. As such, because they are unsourced and pseudoscientific, I think they should be removed. BabbleOnto (talk) 06:39, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- All those that aren't sourced should be removed, including treatments not in the source because they seem plausible is OR.Brunton (talk) 13:13, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- Agreed. Also summarize everything you do on the Talk page so that the editor is on notice in case they try to sneak it back in. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 13:22, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- Actually, that entire paragraph is about treating Temporomandibular joint dysfunction rather than jaw dislocation. It can just be removed, leaving the second paragraph which is actually about treatment of jaw dislocation. Brunton (talk) 13:44, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- I think Temporomandibular joint dysfunction#Alternative medicine could probably do with some eyes. Brunton (talk) 15:00, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Delta smelt
There is an IP adding a theory from an SPS that does not come from a subject matter expert. The theory claims that an act Newsom refused to sign to protect the Delta smelt caused the Palisades Fire to spread out of control. What should I tell the IP? None of the Twinkle warning templates really seem to match. Wildfireupdateman :) (talk) 20:24, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
- I would use the
Addition of unsourced or improperly cited material ...
warning, with a link to WP:RSSELF in the edit window of the message. Donald Albury 21:30, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delta smelt (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch
More and more articles are in danger of fringe edits because of a certain random rambler. --Hob Gadling (talk) 09:23, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- Given that the habitat of the Delta smelt is about 335 miles north of Los Angeles and that all the decisions about the Peripheral Canal were made before Gavin Newsom was governor, and that even if Newsom had pushed hard to ship Northern California water hundreds of miles to Southern California without regard to environmental issues, and had succeeded (politically impossible), the necessary infrastructure could not possibly have been funded and built in the six years that Newsom has been governor. Add to that that the problems with fire hydrants in LA have not been due to lack of water in general but rather to power failures to water pumps caused by the massive fires, and limits to water storage that feeds fire hydrants. The storage tanks high in the hills were depleted quickly. They are bringing in portable generators as needed, and struggling to refill those tanks. When you add all that up, the connection between the Delta smelt and the 2025 Palisades Fire is non-existent, except in the minds of disinformation operatives and gullible conspiracy theorists. Cullen328 (talk) 09:42, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- My understanding based on watching the coverage of the fires is that it's mainly a pressure issue and not an issue of total existing water. Basically, no city has the infrastructure in place for every hydrant everywhere to be opened all at the same time. It's designed for multiple structure fires and not multiple town-size fires. Moreover, I expect that if someone tried to install the infrastructure for such a rare situation, everyone of all political stripes would be balking at the cost of something that might be used once every century. GMG 12:29, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- Given that the habitat of the Delta smelt is about 335 miles north of Los Angeles and that all the decisions about the Peripheral Canal were made before Gavin Newsom was governor, and that even if Newsom had pushed hard to ship Northern California water hundreds of miles to Southern California without regard to environmental issues, and had succeeded (politically impossible), the necessary infrastructure could not possibly have been funded and built in the six years that Newsom has been governor. Add to that that the problems with fire hydrants in LA have not been due to lack of water in general but rather to power failures to water pumps caused by the massive fires, and limits to water storage that feeds fire hydrants. The storage tanks high in the hills were depleted quickly. They are bringing in portable generators as needed, and struggling to refill those tanks. When you add all that up, the connection between the Delta smelt and the 2025 Palisades Fire is non-existent, except in the minds of disinformation operatives and gullible conspiracy theorists. Cullen328 (talk) 09:42, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
Discussion about SBM at COVID-19 lab leak theory
See Talk:COVID-19 lab leak theory#Science-Based Medicine - cleanup needed. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 20:10, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Misandry
Old/current Misplaced Pages message: "Misandry is a minor issue, not equivalent to the widespread practice and extensive history of misogyny."
My suggested edit: Some experts see misandry as a minor issue, not equivalent to the widespread practice and extensive history of misogyny. Others disagree, and see misandry as a major issue.
My edit has been reverted by @mrollie and @Binksternet (who said I was engaging in an edit war or about to, but reverted himself, which I didn't fully understand.)
Their reasoning was that seeing misandry as a minor issue was the consensus amongst scholars. However, I said that there was no evidence that the majority of scholars don't see misandry as a big deal, or that seeing misandry as a big deal was a "fringe issue" amongst scholars. Who's in the right here?
P.S. if you think I'm in the right I'd appreciate it if you reverted it for me so that I don't get into trouble for edit wars.
Thank you all for your time. Wikieditor662 (talk) 06:07, 12 January 2025 (UTC) Wikieditor662 (talk) 06:07, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
And please note that this is regarding the text in the Misogyny article. Wikieditor662 (talk) 06:15, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- If the best source you can find to demonstrate the prevalence of a position is a blog post published in a pop science rag, then it is quite possibly a fringe position. Remsense ‥ 论 06:19, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- The Misandry and Misogyny articles must both tell the reader that misogyny is a huge deal and misandry is comparatively minor and recent. That's because the people who make the most noise in social media about misandry—members of the men's rights movement—have been pushing a false equivalence to get more sympathy for their cause. They keep saying that misandry is a huge deal, much the same as misogyny. Scholars who study these issues have formed a consensus against the MRM position, saying that misogyny has a few thousand years of terrible mistreatment of women, while misandry is about 1 percent of that, as it is a recent accusation, representing a backlash against the advances of feminism. Topic scholars making this description include David G. Gilmore, Marc Ouellette, Heidi R. Riggio, Michael Kimmel, Alice E. Marwick, Robyn Caplan, Frances Ferguson and R. Howard Bloch, among many others. These are all cited in the misandry article. In fact, 40 topic scholars have declared a "misandry myth" contradicting the MRM claims, saying that feminists in general do not hate men. It's a thing. Binksternet (talk) 06:44, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Just because it's newer doesn't mean it's a minor issue, and misandry doesn't have to mean that feminists in general hate men. Do the sources you listed also state that it's a consensus that misandry is a minor issue? To clarify, are they claiming that they think it's a minor issue or are they stating that it's the consensus? Perhaps you could point to specific from the sources?
- @Remsense I wasn't sure it was a blog post, but I did see the person writing the article had a PHD, and I saw some other places on google scholar stating that too.
- Wikieditor662 (talk) 07:05, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- The WP:ONUS is on you to demonstrate the proposed changes represent positions in proportion to their prominence in the body of reliable sources. This is something the post above goes much farther in demonstrating, even citing a survey of many relevant scholars. Remsense ‥ 论 07:14, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
Just because it's newer doesn't mean it's a minor issue
Then it's a good thing that nobody said that was the reason for it being a minor issue. --Hob Gadling (talk) 09:57, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Sounds like “comparatively minor” would be more accurate, unless sources state that it is a minor issue on some kind of absolute scale. Barnards.tar.gz (talk) 09:49, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- It's definitely an issue that has received increased attention. But it does probably need better sourcing to back your stance. I would recommend something like Of Boys and Men by Reeves. Granted, I largely disregard the MRM as weirdos. But the subject has gotten treatment from people who aren't online weirdos.I would also note that misandry doesn't necessarily mean overt and explicit "hatred" of men exclusively. By all accounts, the jerk at the office or the Harvey Weinstein at the job interview doesn't hate women. They're probably very fond of them. But they're also part of a systemic viewpoint that devalues people based on a particular class membership. GMG 14:58, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- These are the types of claims that should be attributed. Misplaced Pages shouldn't be telling people what issues are important, it should be telling people who thinks what's important and why. Trying to use Misplaced Pages to say "this issue is worse than that one" is textbook POV pushing. And Wikieditor662, keep in mind that it's still edit warring if you ask other people to do it on your behalf, and it's not a good idea to dodge restrictions like that be enlisting others. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 20:16, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you all for your responses, please allow me to address them:
- @Remsense @GreenMeansGo If there are reliable sources on a topic giving opposing views, and you claim that one is a minority view, wouldn't the responsibility of proof fall on you? Either way, I tried to find information as to whether scholars have a consensus on the severity of misandry. There is only one thing I found in regards to that:
- 1) "Misandry is a very general and very contested term" - Excerpt from Sutton, Robbie M., et al. "The false and widespread belief that feminists are misandrists." (Please note the title isn't related to the issue, as it's about whether misandry is a big issue, not whether feminists are misandrist.)
- Note that this was in regards to what the consensus is about Misandry. I can also show you what individual scholars think of Misandry, but again, this may not necessarily represent the consensus:
- "Whether you define misandry as “hatred” or “contempt,” which is … First, misandry is a major
- problem for men and must not be …"
- Source: NathaNsoN, Paul, and KatheriNe K. YouNg. "Misogyny versus Misandry: From" Comparative Suffering" to Inter-Sexual Dialogue." New Male Studies 3.3 (2014).
- "Mitigation of misogyny and misandry is crucial"
- Source: Oparah, J. S., and Mary Ndubuisi Fidelis. "Misogyny and Misandry: Reasons and Mitigating Strategies in the Sample of Antenatal Patients in Tertiary Health Facilities in Owerri Municipal Imo State, Nigeria." International Journal of Human Kinetics, Health and Education 5.1 (2019).
- These are some of the areas of text I found from google scholar; I'm sure there's plenty more. But except for the one excerpt stating that Misandry is a general and contested term (they may be talking about the general population, so I'm not even sure if that counts), I couldn't find anything about what the consensus is, but it appears to be a nuanced issue amongst scholars from what I see.
- As for the WP:ONUS, some other options would be to only compare it to misogyny (for example what @Barnards.tar.gz suggested, although that example specifically would also require source/s), to mention that it's the counterpart of misogyny but not compare it, or just not mention misandry at all.
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- @Hob Gadling I think Binkstrenet did when he said "misogyny has a few thousand years of terrible mistreatment of women, while misandry is about 1 percent of that, as it is a recent accusation"
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- @Thebiguglyalien In the first part of your sentence, were you referring to where it says Misandry is a minor issue when you were talking about POV pushing?
- And as for asking people to do the edit on my behalf, I meant after a consensus was reached, I promise it wasn't my intention to escalate an edit war. I apologize if I worded that statement badly.
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- Wikieditor662 (talk) 03:03, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- New Male Studies is a journal sponsored by the foundation for male studies. The about us page of the foundation includes PragerU and random TED talk videos.
- International Journal of Human Kinetics is not a journal really about human sociology, and is published by a random department in the university of nigeria.
- These don't pass muster for reliable and due sourcing. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 03:35, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- I quite specifically pointed to evidence that this position is in the great majority, and am not sure how you missed that. Remsense ‥ 论 03:38, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- The sentence could certainly be worded more impartially. That said, typing a phrase such as "misandry is a major problem" into any search engine is going to return biased results. Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young are religious scholars whose writings about misandry are outside their field of expertise and have been harshly critiqued by topic experts. Their views are extremely WP:UNDUE if not outright WP:FRINGE. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 04:16, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Bluethricecreamman I thought the information on google scholar was reliable, perhaps I was wrong. That's unfortunate, it means getting reliable sources is a little more difficult. Are you aware of any other easy ways to find reliable sources?
- @Remsense are you referring to the misandry myth title? As far as I'm aware that's in regards to the viewpoint that feminism is misandrist, so it might be talking about a specific part of misandry rather than all of it.
- @Sangdeboeuf I didn't type that in, I typed in things like "misandry" and "what do scholars think of misandry" and "is misandry a problem" into google scholar, but now I'm noticing that also may not be reliable as @Bluethricecreamman so I'm trying to figure out where else I can check
- Wikieditor662 (talk) 04:21, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Not every source on Google Scholar is reliable. For scholarly sources, check if the journal is peer-reviewed and is well-respected by others. The journals you posted were easy to investigate with a quick google search to see who were sponsoring them, or if they were predatory. Please see also WP:SCHOLARSHIP and WP:DUE. You need to find sourcing that is due, not the first sourcing that validates your point of view. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 04:39, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Assuming misandry needs to be mentioned at all in the Misogyny article, then I'd go with others' suggestion to attribute the opinions of relevant scholars. Copying from the Misandry article, we could say something like:
Marc A. Ouellette argues in International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities that "misandry lacks the systemic, transhistoric, institutionalized, and legislated antipathy of misogyny". Anthropologist David Gilmore argues that misogyny is a "near-universal phenomenon" and that there is no male equivalent.
—Sangdeboeuf (talk) 04:51, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
References
- ^ Ouellette, Marc (2007). "Misandry". In Flood, Michael; et al. (eds.). International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. Routledge. pp. 442–443. ISBN 978-1-1343-1707-3.
- Synnott, Anthony (October 6, 2010). "Why Some People Have Issues With Men: Misandry". Psychology Today.
Misandry is everywhere, culturally acceptable, even normative, largely invisible, taught directly and indirectly by men and women, blind to reality, very damaging and dangerous to men and women in different ways and de-humanizing.
- Allan, Jonathan A. (2016). "Phallic Affect, or Why Men's Rights Activists Have Feelings". Men and Masculinities. 19 (1): 22–41. doi:10.1177/1097184X15574338. ISSN 1097-184X – via The Misplaced Pages Library.
- Chunn, Dorothy E. (2007). "Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men". Canadian Journal of Family Law. 23 (1): 93. ISSN 0704-1225. ProQuest 228237479.
- Carver, T. F. (2003). "Review: Spreading Misandry: the teaching of contempt for men in popular culture". International Feminist Journal of Politics. 5: 480–481. hdl:1983/befd2fcf-8700-46c3-b7c5-aa6caab0e5fd. ISSN 1468-4470.
- Gilmore, David G. (2001). Misogyny: The Male Malady. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 10–13. ISBN 978-0-8122-0032-4.
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Seems to have only in-universe sources. Does anybody know any better ones? --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:48, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- In russian Misplaced Pages I deleted it in 2019 because there are no normal sources on this topic ru:Википедия:К_удалению/27_февраля_2019#Зеркало_Козырева. Only fringe sources such as Kaznacheev. El-chupanebrej (talk) 10:38, 13 January 2025 (UTC)