On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 19:43, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
--- On Sat, 23/10/10, SlimVirgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
Someone working for the company that makes Lipitor would try to stop mainstream media sources being used in the article, because it's the media that has been pointing out problems with these drugs. And that's exactly what happens on these articles, but it's unfortunately Wikipedians who are doing it. Their motives are good -- to keep out nonsense -- but the effect is to turn those articles into something the manufacturers and their PR people would be very happy with.
To be sure, information on side effects can be found in the scholarly literature. This is usually where the press gets it from.
WP:MEDRS specifically allows the use of media sources for such purposes. If editors edit-war this information out, it needs to go to a noticeboard, or to arbitration.
Andreas
I added a section on memory loss to that article, and used the source you cited as well as a Wall Street Journal article. I don't much care for the Telegraph myself, and didn't use it. In fact it was an anecdotal account of a single person.
Now, let's see if anyone shows up to remove this black mark... And observe how they go about it.
I tried to add the BBC report a few months ago to [[Statin]], along with the study the report was based on, but it was removed several times and I gave up in the end.