Talk:Hiromi Shinya

Section Headings, Request for Japanese Research
This is my first article, and it is about a subject on which there is currently limited information. I just want to make sure that I handled things well, and I am very open to all suggestions for improvement. I have a couple of primary concerns. A) My section headings: I used descriptive names for the section titles, but I wonder if they are too descriptive and will impede the future development of the article. If so, I assume I should change them before the page becomes any more established. B) Considering that most of his published work is in Japanese, I had a hard time researching the works he has authored. If there is anyone with knowledge of Japanese that could aid in this process, it would be much appreciated. Nik-renshaw 04:12, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

I think it's great, for the most part. I added a quote from "The Microbe Factor" about the history of Kangen water, which has been erased. Since I added the quote about "0% cancer recurrence rate" from p. 7 of "The Enzyme Factor", there appears to be a considerable attempt to discredit this world-class surgeon. I guess the powers' that be motus operandi still holds, and when somebody starts having success treating disease, particularly cancer, that is outside of Western Medicine's view that only synthetic petroleum-derived pharmaceuticals could ever cure disease, there arises a sinister attempt to assassinate the character and discredit the person. This man's credentials are head-and-shoulders above any other gastroenterologist on the planet. He treats members of Japan's Royal family, US presidents, celebrities, professional athletes, Heads of State, etc. He is the pre-eminent expert on the colon and thinks Kangen water is the best determinant of colon and overall health he's seen. If he were saying the same thing about cancer drugs, there would be no problem and he would be gaining favor of the powers that be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.174.236.120 (talk) 18:04, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest / Neutrality
I am also having concerns about conflict of interest. Before my work on this article, I had no experience with Wikipedia, so I only came into contact with the guidelines upon which I stumbled in the writing. Now, after publishing the article, I ran across the guideline on conflict of interest. I am an intern at Council Oak Books, the publisher of Hiromi Shinya's English translation The Enzyme Factor. While I am unpaid, I was assigned by them to create the page. During the entire process, I tried my utmost to be fair, and only use established, published facts--in keeping with Wikipedia policy. However, it is naturally difficult to maintain complete neutrality in this situation, and I feel that the dearth of information on Hiromi Shinya in the English language contributed to this difficulty. So, I ask that this article be evaluated, and I be advised as to how I should precede and how I have done on maintaining neutrality. I feel that I trust myself to act ethically and honestly, but I also open myself to the scrutiny of the community, for the benefit of all. Thank you. Nik-renshaw 05:05, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Lifestyle Diseases DVD
This was recently added to the page: "and recommends drinking of Kangen Water (Alkaline water caused by means of electrolysis) on his DVD Lifestyle Diseases." I'm not sure where it should go in the article, and doing a Google search of "Lifestyle Diseases" didn't yield anything. Do you have more information on this DVD that could be cited? Perhaps we could expand the "Authorship" section to include this DVD? Thanks. Nik-renshaw (talk) 18:49, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the redone edit: "On his DVD, titled "Lifestyle Diseases - Your Are What You Eat", Dr. Shinya advocates the drinking of Kangen Alkaline Water by name." Here are the problems: 1) The statement is unsourced. You need to reference something. Like, the DVD itself. Just give me the information about the DVD, and I can add a reference. 2) When I Google "Lifestyle Diseeases" "You are what you eat," nothing comes up. What is this DVD? Where is there information about it? 3) For the entire DVD and its contents, all you mention is Kangen alkaline water. It would seem that you have a vested interest in Kangen water. Please, rather than just re-adding this information, talk to me, so we can move forward. Nik-renshaw (talk) 02:45, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

"There was immediate demand for his procedure, with his performing 20 colonoscopies a day. To date, he has performed approximately 300,000 colonoscopies": How is this possible? If he personally performed 20 such operations a day (in a 10-hour work day, that is twice every hour), it would have taken him 15,000 days ... 41 years of no-vacation days, no weekends or any time off. Most likely, this hospital (Beth Israel) would have to have a total of 300,000 cases for him to work on; and he would have had no time to write books, fly around the world for demos/conferences, etc. Is the 300,000 severely exaggerated, like many of the claimed "scientific FACTS" in his books?

The video in question by Hiromi Shinya can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0RIGpV0gd4

This article should be updated and cleaned up. Not only has there been an increase in colonoscopies being done, but the whole alkaline water thing is burgeoning. The above video link is defunct and there should be more material available now for references. I hope that someone qualified to do it, brings this up to date. --Mdhwriter (talk) 02:43, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Refs and citations are a mess
Markup help is needed here.
 * Some cross-references of the form Shinya Medical Clinic: About Dr. Shinya have no target. Was a section deleted?
 * Citations of the form go nowhere. They appear to be intended for entries in the "References and notes" section using the  template, but the specified anchor tags are missing there.
 * The combination of the latter with citations in subsequent sections result in two numbered lists in the "Notes and References" section, in two point sizes, each beginning with numeral 1.

I don't know the markup well enough to fix this, and the original author knows best what was intended. Bn (talk) 01:58, 16 January 2013 (UTC)