Talk:Canities subita

Motivations for hoaxing

Implying "sainthood" could be a possible motivation for hoaxing. A wood ash and tallow mixture swells the cuticle layer of hair, which allows sun bleaching ( http://www.hairfinder.com/hair4/ancient_hair_lightening_techniques.htm )

A skeptical review of the phenomena can be found here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625383/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.214.19.170 (talk) 01:30, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

removed section

I've removed the 'Other media' section, since it is completely uncited and seems, well, crufty and trivial. Find reliable sources, and a new conversation about this can take place, but not before then, I think. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 17:49, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Fraudulent Entry, Fraudulent Sources

This entire entry is made up. The source "FASEB" has been shunned by virtually all scientific communitites for inventing evidence and falsifying studies for political reasons. This article has no place in a reference database. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozzie10aaaa (talk • contribs) 12:04, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

@Ozzie10aaaa: Wikipedia not a reference database, but an encyclopedia. We have articles on hoaxes, frauds, pseudoscientific claims, etc., because it's our encyclopedic job to have them and to explain that they're illegitimate, when reliable sources indicate that they are. One thing we don't have is any reliable sources yet telling us that FASEB is unreliable, as you suggest but don't demonstrate. If they're some kind of pseudo-science group, we should know that and treat their material with skepticism. More importantly, our very skeletal article Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology reads like a brochure, and has no information about any FASEB-related controversy. If you feel up to improving that article with independent reliable sources, that would be a good place to start. In the interim, I'll change this article to directly attribute to FASEB the claims that are being sourced to them, as a caveat emptor. That's about the best we can do right now, because we have no evidence of FASEB being unreliable; for all we know you just don't like them and are saying bad things about them.  :-) PS: Please sign your posts, with ~~~~. Also, new posts go at the bottom of the talk page, not the top.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  13:59, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

SMcCandlish if you check the history I just added the template....[1]--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:41, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I saw. I tagged that specific cite as possibly unreliable (though that may be overkill; they're probably not unreliable for the claim that three people from Marie's time made such claims; that's presumably coming from old mss. materials of the era, and it's not a scientific claim beign made by FASEB but a historiographical one.) I've also raised a question at WT:MEDRS about FASEB and the state of their article here.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  14:53, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

In non-fiction literature

According to Karol Olgierd Borchardt's Znaczy kapitan, this happened to Mamert Stankiewicz while shipwrecked right before his death. However, Borchardt wasn't present, he apparently based his description on what eyewitnesses told him.

(I've no idea why grey hair should be used as a literary device to imply sainthood – if anything, sweating blood would make more sense – but if anyone wonders, Stankiewicz was definitely depicted as a benevolent hero). 89.64.68.162 (talk) 17:00, 17 June 2023 (UTC)