Talk:William E. White

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Neuroscientist?

Did he conduct any basic research? PubMed doesn't seem to find any links to the query "White W Dextromethorphan". Did he had any neuroscientific or biological degree? --CopperKettle (talk) 21:59, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

William White is not a professional neuroscientist. In the Acknowledgements section of the FAQ, he writes: "I showed her feedback (and the resulting exchange of email) to a friend of mine who is a neuroscience researcher and physician, and my friend reassured me that this person's objections, although numerous, were also baseless." Anderson in "The Bad News Isn't In" says the following: "William White was not a doctor nor did he have formal training as a researcher". As far as I can tell, White is/was a DXM user who studied neuroscience to better understand DXM. I'm changing the wording to "amateur neuroscientist" and removing the citation needed tag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.153.234.155 (talk) 00:04, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Notability Police

White, given his foundational contributions to DXM culture, is absolutely a "notable" person. As usual, it saddens me to see unnecessary demands that notability be established (lest Wikipedia become too informative, of course). Anyway, it shouldn't be entirely too hard to establish his notability, but I'm going to bed in a few minutes so I'll try to do it tomorrow or the next day. On related though mostly separate note, the man seems to have basically disappeared years ago, after he himself apparently stopped using DXM and became worried about its long-term effects. Might we be able to give some basic information about what the guy's up to these days? Does anybody even know? --MQDuck (talk) 00:29, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WW and his publication is definitely notable, but it will be extremely hard to prove it. I would intuit that his observations of DXM use have informed the modern history of its use and media coverage, but there is scant proof that WW is even a real person. General Miaow Say Hello! 00:05, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]