In a message dated 10/23/2010 3:40:30 AM Pacific
Daylight Time,
wiki-list(a)phizz.demon.co.uk writes:
OK this is going to be controversial but have you
ever considered taht
maybe you shouldn't have anything on Atorvastatin other than what comes
as the medical advice in the packaging? One cannot provide any useful
advice on whether someone should use the drug or not that should be
between the patient and their doctor. I mean its not as if wikipedia is
an expert pharmacopeia as wikipedia doesn't have experts weighing the
evidence one way or the other, all you can do is mimic the day to day
controversy which of its very nature is going to be conflict ridden.
If there are still any pretensions of being encyclopaedic here then any
such articles should only be written once the conflict has been resolved.
Example here is the MMR article from one period in 2004:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MMR_vaccine&oldid=6127791
any parent reading that article at that time is highly unlikely to have
opted for the vaccine. Or take the final paragraph here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MMR_vaccine&
oldid=6127791#The_MMR_controversy
adding every rumour, statement, or innuendo that someone somewhere in
the world might have once said, however wrong, is unencyclopeadic. It is
certainly not without consequences. How many children were made ill by
those paragraphs?
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/vaxpictures/measles3.htm
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/vaxpictures/measles1.htm
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/vaxpictures/mumps1.htm
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/vaxpictures/mumps2.htm
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/vaxpictures.htm>>
Why would you make such outrageous statements and expect any result here?
On what space have you been slumming where people add "every rumour,
statement or innuendo that someone somewhere in the world might have once said"?
Please tell me, I'm dying to know. I mean I'm really dying.
Controversy has arisen because some scientists and parents
claim that the vaccine may be linked to the development of
a number of conditions, such as autism, bowel disorders such
as Crohn's disease, and the brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease (CJD).