[WikiEN-l] Opinion of the many?

Tue Nov 30 12:14:14 UTC 2004

Ah, but the field in question is diagnosis of disease, of which iridology is
just one approach. Almost all experts in diagnosis of disease dismiss
iridology.

Fred

> From: R E Broadley <20041111 at stardate.freeserve.co.uk>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:50:49 +0000
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Opinion of the many?
> 
> What is it Socrates said? "The opinion of the many is not important. It
> is the opinion of the experts in their field which is important." -
> Obviously he originally said this in Greek, but I did get a native Greek
> speaker to translate the original sentence for me. It flows better in
> Greek though.
> 
> Why am I quoting this? What the professional iridologist an expert in
> their field? I don't know this either, but if he was, I would suggest
> his opinion should probably outweigh that of the majority of non-experts
> in this field. The question remains: was the debate between experts and
> experts, or experts and non-experts?
> 
> Rebroad
> 
> Fred Bauder wrote:
> 
>> As we become one of the central institutions of global culture, people
>> justifiably feel that their "take" on things ought to be included. Iridology
>> is Irismeister's thing. Despite our banning of Iridology for sustained POV
>> editing and edit warring over the matter we continue to have an article on
>> Iridology which begins as follows:
>> 
>> "'''Iridology''' is a form of [[alternative medicine]] in which patterns,
>> colors and other characteristics of stromal fibers of the [[Iris
>> (anatomy)|iris]] are examined for information about a patient's health.
>> Practitioners match their observations to ''iris charts'' which divide the
>> iris into many zones believed to correspond to specific parts of the [[human
>> body]]. Little scientific evidence exists confirming any such link between
>> the aspect of the iris and a patient's state of health."
>> 
>> What it doesn't say, as Irismeister would have it, is that iridology is the
>> best thing since sliced bread. He did not achieve his goal of dominating the
>> article with his viewpoint which, while represented, takes its place
>> alongside extensive criticisms. Now, as a professional iridologist, he has
>> filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.
>> 
>> Fred 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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