Talk:Micromercurialism

Initiating this entry
I decided to initiate this entry of micromercurialism as there appeared to be no other Wikipedia listing that detailed a proper description of the health effects from chronic, subacute mercury exposure. What spurred me to this decision were the results of over 1,000 "healthy" individuals in the past year who had their urines properly tested for mercury by mass spectrophotometry at a world-respected CLEA lab in Chicago. What we found was astonishing: Over 90% had significant amounts of tissue-burden mercury.

There certainly is the feeling now that I am standing on the shoulders of giants before me in this area and with it a great responsibility to "get it right"on this project. After traveling around the world twice in as many years lecturing to both public and professionals alike, I wish to invite the contributions of everyone who desire to help get the facts right on this important global health issue.

The goal is to establish scientific validity as much as possible and minimize emotionally-charged, undocumentable, political outbursts that have unfortunately (although understandably) entered into this topic. There is a history dating back to the mid-1800's regarding mercury in dentistry and medicine which makes for extraordinary reading but I don't think this is the venue for it. However, it needs to be told and I will consider entering it into the Dentistry historical section with a link to micromercurialism after it is developed more completely. --Drdooley (talk) 03:55, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Copyright violation problem
This article's text appears to consist mostly of copyright violations. The list of references, which is the bulk of the article, is copied from pages 21–36 of a paper (in German) by Mutter et al. 2005 (PDF), PMID 15789284. The 247 citations are copied verbatim from Mutter et al. to Micromercurialism, with only one minor change that I can see (once citation, "16a", is added). Most of Micromercurialism is a quote from a copyrighted work that is so lengthy (compared to the small amount of commentary in that section) that fair use would not seem to apply. Eubulides (talk) 21:45, 7 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Following up on my own posting, the simplest solution for now would seem to be redirecting this article to Mercury poisoning, which briefly discusses micromercurialism in its historical context. So I did that. If there is a bit of useful information in this article that is not a copyright violation, it can be added there; if there is more, then this article can be restored as an independent article, obviously without the massive copyright violations. Eubulides (talk) 23:53, 7 September 2008 (UTC)