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Most of the stuff in the article should be deleted unless it can be backed up with sources. There appears to be a lot of original research and point-of-view statements. 4.243.146.96 01:43, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, better sourcing needed for many aspects of this article. I'm attempting to source any of my new edits to this article, such as the one yesterday I added about Dr. Bill's call for US troops to go house to house in Oakland to look for weapons. CriticalChris 02:22, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The "Gun Grabber" title sounds silly....get the feeling whoever compiled this stuff wanted it to sound that way...--173.150.68.236 (talk) 06:48, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please make your edits as appropriate; I can own that title "gun grabber," having edited it into the article, but am open to other ways to name his confiscatory ideology. Nonetheless, the fact remains that he cavalierly suggested to a major newspaper reporter that we use a standing army to piss all over the 2nd and 4th amendments to the United States Constitution, and isn't that quite silly! CriticalChris 00:10, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Former KGO pages

Following cancellation of Bill Wattenburg's show on KGO-AM radio in early December 2011, the station purged his Web page there. However, it can still be viewed in archived form from February 2011 at the Wayback Machine, http://web.archive.org/web/20110129225019/http://kgoradio.com/sectional.asp?id=33179. As of this writing, his personal site, http://www.wattenburg.us/, still works. Even though the article claims Bill Wattenburg has joined KSCO AM-1080 in Santa Cruz, California, since the split from KGO, the KSCO online program schedule does not reflect this (yet); it may still be in preliminary talks and not a done deal. The edit to the article by anonymous editor 208.80.119.67 on 2011-12-10 may have been premature. — Quicksilver^{T @} 22:01, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

People have been reacting to a one-day fill-in deal in early December 2011 at KSCO as if Dr. Wattenburg were a regular host there. See http://capitola.patch.com/articles/former-kgo-host-bill-wattenburg-migrating-to-ksco. — Quicksilver^{T @} 01:29, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

His Standing as a Scientist

I believe this issue should be clarified. He's not a physicist, as I understand, just some guy with weird, although trivial, ideas and a PhD degree, which per se hardly has any scientific meaning. Stating that "as a scientist, he had solved a problem of trains not visible on the computer screen" is just hilarious.

My personal opinion is that his knowledge of physics, as conveyed by his talks on the radio, is rudimentary, and at times plain wrong.

So, it would be a shame, I believe, to call him a scientist (except on par with Jesus Christ the Scientist) and/or a physicist. Talk show host, that's fine, though.

Vlad Patryshev (talk) 06:06, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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