User talk:Calirad

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Christiane Northrup
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Christiane Northrup. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. -- Valjean (talk) 14:40, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Relevant WP:Discretionary sanctions alerts
-- Valjean (talk) 14:48, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

-- Valjean (talk) 14:48, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Both topics are related to your edit at Christiane Northrup. -- Valjean (talk) 14:48, 14 March 2022 (UTC)


 * My edit was factual. What I corrected contained tendentious opinion.  Check it out and, without fear or favor, don't be swayed the tide of establishment medicine--some of which I agree is science-base-- which is fundamentally distorted by the wealth and power of one of the most profitable industries on the planet (see the thesis of John Abramson MD's recent book, e.g.)  I could go on at book length, but there you have it.  Be an editor for an encyclopedia, not an enforcer for the drug-company-directed medical system, please. Calirad (talk) 03:44, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Let me add that even an establishment figure such as NPR's Richard Harris recognizes in his book that 50% of medical research cannot be replicated and is part of medicine's crisis situation at present. And the healthcare system's record for supporting a long "healthspan" (i.e. without chronic disease) is not good.... Editing that is tendentious in favor of power, and not simply factual, is a disservice to the encyclopedia and to the whole of society. Calirad (talk) 04:07, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Please keep that stuff about "vandalism," "experiment[ing]," and "sandbox" to yourself and I won't be disrespectful to you either (I'll let "unconstructive" pass as a rash, atavistic judgment). . . . "[A]n interest in Complementary and Alternative Medicine"? So does the NIH, Cleveland Clinic, and countless other establishment institutions.  "[S]hown interest in pseudoscience and fringe science"?  One of my points is that much of establishment medicine is pseudoscience, and we must just state the facts, which is what I did (btw, Genova Diagnostics also provides MANY tests which are readily accepted by establishment medicine as well).  The ones that are overlooked in those circles ARE science-based just as I stated.  My statement/edit was actually quite mild, but it appears that the enforcers will brook not even the slightest challenge of fact to their ideology....which pervades the encyclopedia and discredits it.  Just the facts, man. Calirad (talk) 04:59, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Minor edits
Hi Calirad! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you.

Since all but one of your edits has been marked as minor, I suspect this is a matter of your settings. Please turn that setting off. There is no (or rarely any) reason to mark any edit as minor, so it's better to err on the safe side and not do it. -- Valjean (talk) 14:53, 14 March 2022 (UTC)