Manufacturing section?...that's {{howto}} or [wikiversity], isn't it? If
innocuous things like How to Clean a Fish Tank aren't here...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oskar Sigvardsson" <oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:46 PM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I believe this one has been debated before and
was considered to be
covered in the nest of disclaimers linked from the general disclaimer.
- d.
There's really two arguments here, a legal argument and a moral one.
Legally, the talmudic list of general disclaimers (which no sane
person reads) probably covers us, but is that enough? Should we stop
there?
The moral argument says that we should make sure that people don't
rely on only our information when it comes to serious decisions with
serious consequences. I don't think it would be a bad thing at all if
at the dosage section of an article on drugs we say "Consult your
physician before taking medication" or on the article on
nitroglycerin, have a small little disclaimer in the "Manufacturing"
section saying "It is extremely dangerous to try this yourself if you
are not a trained chemist".
--Oskar
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