User talk:SolisOne

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Acceptable references are those that refer to the issue in question. A general article about another bit of research is not a primary reference that can be used as evidence. Please cease adding nonsense references to sciatica. Maustrauser 03:48, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I will not cease until I find a completely 'acceptable' reference.


 * But in the meantime, I would like to present a question to the above user: What is your motive here? What is your real, actual, honest-to-goodness motive? Is it to help people?


 * After suffering from sciatica for months, seeing numerous doctors, specialists and the like -- none of whom helped in any way whatsoever -- I was finally recommended homeopathy, which helped immeasurably. A year later, it returned. After seeing another medical doctor at the request of friends, I was once again left worse off then before ($300 lighter, that is). Again, I turned to homeopathy and the results were astoundingly helpful.


 * I will find a reference, rest assured. But in the meantime, I urge you to set aside your holier-than-thou ego and consider the millions of sciatica sufferers who may be helped as I might have been if I had seen such a helpful reference in Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SolisOne (talk • contribs)


 * I look forward to reading your acceptable reference.  Anecdotal evidence is not proof.   I too have had sciatica and nothing I did fixed it.  Until one day I awoke without it.  Was this a miracle?  Nope.  It was the body healing itself.  But I'm not going to go an edit sciatica on the basis of my experience.  I will edit it on the basis of a good scientific study. Maustrauser 06:44, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * For the third time, your reference supporting your contention that homeopathy is scientifically proven to cure sciatica needs to actually mention sciatica. You keep referring to articles that simply restate a Lancet study about homeopathy.  The study needs to relate to sciatica.  I have removed your reference.  Please keep trying though, if you think you can find a scientific reference that is worth quoting. Maustrauser 11:32, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Incidentally, the original Lancet abstract shows no significant evidence that homeopathy works. See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=9310601&dopt=medline Maustrauser 11:37, 1 January 2007 (UTC)