Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2011-04-12/Duesberg Hypothesis

Where is the dispute?
I made a minor edit to Duesberg Hypothesis, in which I added Professor Kary Mullis as a supporter of Professor Duesberg (he wrote a forward to Duesberg's book) and qualified a statement stating that the scientiflic community rejected Duesberg's views on HIV, to say instead that a "majority" of the scientific community rejected them.

Keepcalmandcarryon deleted both edits, but only objecting to the second one in his comment. I restored both, citing the fact that there are scientists who see merit in Duesberg's views; he deleted it again. I then offered to compromise, by removing " majority" and leaving the reference to Dr. Mullis' support of Duesberg (which is widely known and documented), but that was again deleted. I then posted a NPOV violation tag and added an explanation of why on the article's Discussion page.

I then got a warning by Yobol on my talk page that I was guilty of an " edit war" and I would be blocked from further contributions.

I object to the conduct of both named parties. My edits were legitimate and at least merited discussion, and the warning from Yobol was inappropriate.

Thank you.

Roberterubin (talk) 22:56, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

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