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If these trials have been well designed and are successfully duplicated by independent laboratories or field trials, then the papers can be reviewed by an independent body such as the Cochrane Collaboration to serve as a authoritative source of clinical guidance. Regrettably the majority of research trails published today are done or sponsored by the very same companies who have developed the drug or medical device. Moreover they a frequently poorly designed and executed and exhibit bias therefore most papers should not be taken too seriously. Although each new publication of a survey is often greeted with a sycophantic fanfare of trumpet blowing, few thoughtful and clued up clinicians would change their treatment protocols solely on the bases of just a few research papers. Thus, doctors have expressed their despair when patients bring in printouts of the latest research downloaded from the internet with the high expectation that it will make a significant difference.









First Tentative Proposal to Reduce the Underlying Reason Behind Many:

 * (i) Edit Wars


 * (ii) the desire to create POV_fork

Background:

Computerised Information Technology (CIT) now means that information can flow rapidly without the past tradition of discovering some common ground of understanding between the sender and intended recipient. Also many other individual now see that information for whom it was not intended.

Thus, information -however worthy- may just become noise if it is injected into the wrong signal. See: information theory.

This is particularly apparent in articles of a medical nature.

The String theory physicists were taken to task recently over their lay use of the term theory instead of hypothesis.

(see: New Scientist [Mind your scientific language];Reed Business Information; 3rd December 2005, issue 2528, p 23 )

Maybe Wikipedia can take better advantage of its mode of content expansion ( i.e.. people of divers talents -contributing online) by asking contributes to be aware of what category of information they are editing and to strive to keep them clearly separate and thus avoid confusion between contributors from different background (i.e.. arguing from deferent premises). Premise Deductive_reasoning                    Philosophy

<--- tentative proposal starts ---> Proposal:

Starting with medical articles and effort is made to make clear in each article which section deals with:-

Hypothesis (inc. speculations which can be shown to be widely held)

Theory (that have some experimental evidence)

Fact (those things which have now been independently confirmed)

Current Medical Dogma

(that which medical clinicians depend upon to treat - the leaned and practised skills) and/or (Pronouncements from Government Health Agencies, etc.) and/or (that which is most commonly taught)

Industry sources

''' And finally commentary from journalist. '''

And finally: Commentary on how the press and other media report it -if needs must- but only to acknowledge that the subject became news.

(and certainly not to feature the views of individual journalists)?

Where different flavours compete they can be sub divided to hypothesis: one, two, etc. (maybe some brave soul could even give each such sub category a 'weight' or pie chart symbol to denote its overall peer group support.)

<--- tentative proposal ends --->

Yes! messy I appreciate. But at the moment people are working towards cross purposes and much heat gets generated - so much time gets wasted unpicking it. This leads to the current situation where articles can look exceedingly amateurish.

There must be many research specialist who are at present put off contributing when they see, even general medical practitioners editing out information that disagrees with what was taught to them many years ago. This can be a minefield, where incorporating the best scientific method may have the effect of degrading the overall out come from treatment. But by separating the categories: clinical aspects can be explained in real world context and thus have divergents not misunderstood.

Also: students, who are sweating to fill their young heads with what will satisfy the 'examiners,' may not be ready to handle the Cognitive_dissonance that comes to us all, as we discover from experience (A_posteriori) or scientific advance, that most of what we learnt thirty to forty years ago turned out to be wrong -and in some fields completely and utterly wrong. (this applies especially to those that have to keep their knowledge up to date.) Categorising will help students  to ignore all that avon guard stuff, that the boffins rant on to each other about -and which is often-  at odds with what the text books all say. This will save technologists from getting exasperated with the pontifications of a pedantic green horn who imagines their learning is set in stone.

Others: take their information from news papers which have got the science horribly muddled and mangled or have given a problem far more factual credibility than the matter deserves. Often in an effort to be fair and give both sides of an augment equal 'ink on the page'.

(Add your own personal grips here: ...................................................................................................... ) To finish: Unlike a traditional encyclopaedia of old, where a tight editorial policy could be followed, to limit the content to a suit specific readership -at the expense of those considered the hoy poloy- Wikipedia can brake free and be a place where unconnected fields can make connections and create new insights -or be a 'place' to cross pollinate as some people like to say. I could go on at length, but this I think should be enough to give the gist and illuminate the benefits. ---

web ref

 * Kava (Piper methysticum)

Kava ref
(paperback edition)

(paperback edition) Note: new ISBN comes in 1 January 2007 and is  978-1-59477-069-2

Harm Reduction
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/331/7530/1484 Giving heroin users a dose of naloxone to carry around with them

see also:http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/173_05_040900/lenton/lenton.html

Addiction and other drug info
The evolutionary origins and significance of drug addiction

A paper by

Tammy Saah http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1174878

Effects of chewing betel nut (Areca catechu) on the symptoms of people with schizophrenia in Palau, Micronesia ROGER J. SULLIVAN http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/177/2/174?ijkey=6ca581b128776d9c9226621e35ce008e939766e6