Ah, but the field in question is diagnosis of disease, of which iridology is just one approach. Almost all experts in diagnosis of disease dismiss iridology.
Fred
From: R E Broadley 20041111@stardate.freeserve.co.uk Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:50:49 +0000 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Opinion of the many?
What is it Socrates said? "The opinion of the many is not important. It is the opinion of the experts in their field which is important." - Obviously he originally said this in Greek, but I did get a native Greek speaker to translate the original sentence for me. It flows better in Greek though.
Why am I quoting this? What the professional iridologist an expert in their field? I don't know this either, but if he was, I would suggest his opinion should probably outweigh that of the majority of non-experts in this field. The question remains: was the debate between experts and experts, or experts and non-experts?
Rebroad
Fred Bauder wrote:
As we become one of the central institutions of global culture, people justifiably feel that their "take" on things ought to be included. Iridology is Irismeister's thing. Despite our banning of Iridology for sustained POV editing and edit warring over the matter we continue to have an article on Iridology which begins as follows:
"'''Iridology''' is a form of [[alternative medicine]] in which patterns, colors and other characteristics of stromal fibers of the [[Iris (anatomy)|iris]] are examined for information about a patient's health. Practitioners match their observations to ''iris charts'' which divide the iris into many zones believed to correspond to specific parts of the [[human body]]. Little scientific evidence exists confirming any such link between the aspect of the iris and a patient's state of health."
What it doesn't say, as Irismeister would have it, is that iridology is the best thing since sliced bread. He did not achieve his goal of dominating the article with his viewpoint which, while represented, takes its place alongside extensive criticisms. Now, as a professional iridologist, he has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.
Fred
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