[WikiEN-l] Rx Dosage Instructions in Wikipedia

Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen at shaw.ca
Sun Feb 18 21:00:57 UTC 2007


MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
> I wonder if you think the same thing when someone dies because they trusted
> the info.

Why wouldn't I? I'd feel bad for them and their survivors, but the fact
that they actually went ahead and did something that I considered to be
an idiotic thing doesn't change my opinion of how idiotic it was to do
it. If anything it reinforces my opinion.

We've got information about the composition of thermite, too. Should we
remove it in case someone tries making some and burns his house down?

> There's so many different ways to dose medicine that there's not one
> all-inclusive dose.
> If we can't include one reliable dose, we shouldn't include any at all.

This sort of caveat should be mentioned right in the article itself. A
range of typical doses is still useful and interesting information.



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