[WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

[Jay Litwyn]

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 at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at 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 at 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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