Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rick Strassman


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) — Yellow Dingo&#160;(talk) 04:50, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Rick Strassman

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Biography of living person and academic. Works are on the fringe science with an extremely paltry amount of secondary sources mentioning the individual, let alone reliable secondary sources. Most of the article is primary sourced. Xcuref1endx (talk) 20:23, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:33, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:33, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:34, 2 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep. GS h-index of 25? in high cited field probably passes WP:Prof. BLP needs to be pruned of promotional bloat. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:46, 2 October 2016 (UTC).
 * Keep. Strassman's non-fringe work appears to pass WP:PROF and his fringe work appears to pass WP:GNG, with enough independent sources found by the books and news searches linked above to balance the true believers. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 23:51, 2 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep. I'm sorry but this proposed deletion is just ludicrous. Rick Strassman was the 1st man to start psychedelic research after a long hiatus of many decades. His book "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" is a bone fide classic, just because the title may make skeptics blanche doesn't mean his work is not notable. That book spawned the very well known movie of the same name directed by Mitch Schultz. I agree this page needs more secondary sources, but as it stands it is not a bad little bio of Strassman. Considering Wikipedia is a public resource, deleting his profile is insanity. He has carried out much research that is groundbreaking. There is a big difference between groundbreaking and fringe - fringe will remain unknown in the future, whereas groundbreaking research will be remembered in burgeoning fields like psychedelic research. Probrooks (talk) 11:51, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Do you have reliable secondary sources to show that his research is groundbreaking? That is what wikipedia looks for. -Xcuref1endx (talk) 08:02, 5 October 2016 (UTC)


 * As I already said, Dr Strassman's work is very notable because his research kicked off modern day psychedelic research and it is the first extensive scientific study giving subjects DMT.


 * Graham St John's book "Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT" (which is the definitive book about the history of DMT) says this about Rick Strassman's research.


 * "Subtitled A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, Strassman's landmark study raised the profile of DMT, and represents a milestone in the history covered in this book. Triggering a tidal wave of interest in the pineal gland—seen more as a “lightening rod of the soul” than the brain's laboratory for hellish hallucinations—DMT: The Spirit Molecule shone a light on the profound implications of DMT's endogenicity (that is, its natural structure and function in humans)—all deriving from Strassman's observations of goings-on in Room 531 of the University of New Mexico Hospital Clinical Research Centre, Albuquerque, between 1990–1995."


 * From this article:


 * http://www.medicaldaily.com/psychedelic-drugs-mental-health-disorders-bad-rap-war-drugs-385946


 * "It ultimately took two decades for psychedelic research to begin again, when Dr. Rick Strassman studied DMT in 1992. DMT is a psychedelic compound that can be taken on its own, but it is also the psychoactive component of ayahuasca, a psychedelic tea brewed by the indigenous population of Peru. Unlike the more widely known psychedelics, DMT had much less of a stigma, allowing Strassman to get his studies approved far more easily. In the same year, the FDA also passed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act that year, which encouraged new drugs to be researched."


 * and another:


 * http://www.phillymag.com/news/2012/05/18/psychedelics-new-pot/


 * "The psychedelic faucet began to drip again in 1991 with the start of Rick Strassman’s famous Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) study at the University of New Mexico, which served as the first human trial of any psychedelic since they were made Schedule I. From there, the full-blown psychedelic renaissance that we now find ourselves in began to develop."


 * Probrooks (talk) 11:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep Comfortable passes WP:PROF, given the citations to his work. Vanamonde (talk) 04:50, 10 October 2016 (UTC)


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