[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia was founded for OR

[WJhonson at aol.com]

Skepticism rears it's ugly head.
Are we, as internet sleuths given enough information here to *find* the  
name of the doctor, the name of the condition?
If we are not, or if a generic-type search for rare lung condition  with 
unproven treatment... or whatever fails to find anything  useful....
I'm like that,  hard-hearted, suspicious, cynical, etc.
By the way what is a "rare" lung capacity.  I think what he must mean  is a 
rare condition which causes diminished lung capacity.
Turn up the name of the doctor, and I will turn up some publication  
mentioning his treatment.
 
Will Johnson
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/7/2009 4:47:27 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
gwern0 at gmail.com writes:

I'm a  little skeptical that this is any of the real reasons, given the 
fallibility  of human memory, and never seeing anything like this mentioned in 
materials  from the early days - but this would be a great reason, because 
this doctor is  not described as publishing in an RS, so his knowledge is OR! 
(Bwa ha ha ha.  This is almost as good as those Afghan news agencies not 
being  RSs.)