User talk:Don Benjamin

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Cancer evidence

With some bemusement I read your Mediation Cabal case[1] concerning cancer evidence. I am particularly disturbed by the fact that you are attributing your failure to find a forum for your views on my actions.

The fact is: I removed your additions once[2], and explained on the talkpage why I had done this. Several editors have supported this removal, and have brought several arguments why the material you suggested in not sustainable. This is not suppression, censorship etc etc. It is called consensus.

"Unfortunately this dispute does not lend itself to the process of informal mediation because Jfdwolff is clearly not only not prepared to abide by the rules of Wikipedia." Who have you asked to mediate? Have you tried a request for comments to attract community opinion to the discussion? This is normally the first step in dispute resolution.

I suggest you edit your cancer evidence page and tone down your attacks on myself, such as "For jfdwolff science must be turned on its head to conform with his view of the world." JFW | T@lk 12:21, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

You yourself stated that there is nothing useful in the information I used to question the current paradigm about what cancer is, even when I cited 8 randomised trials. You believe that we have to wait until a majority of the medical community accepts (in perhaps another fifty years time) that it picked a wrong path when it changed the old cancer paradigm in the 19th century. You expect Wikipedia to keep this information from the general public until then but you don't call this censorship.

It is a rather weird concept of consensus when you use it to decide what the general public is allowed to hear. They aren't even allowed to hear that there is a sizable minority that questions the current paradigm. And this minority inludes some of the world's leading scientists.

You believe I should "tone down my attacks" on you. It's OK for you to refer to all my arguments as "bizarre" implying they are all nonsense, and for others to refer to me as a "fluffhead". And you think I am being emotional!

Don Benjamin 09:18, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

You have not actually addressed my points:

• You are holding me responsible for suppressing/censoring your views, yet I only removed your material once. By Wikipedia standards, this is hardly suppression.
• Why have you not tried a Request for Comments? If you've managed to find the Mediation Cabal, you should also have been able to find RFC.
• Why are you holding me personally responsible for the poor acceptance of your views? JFW | T@lk 21:17, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Mediation

Hi, could you please refactor your request according to the general guidlines of the MEDCAB. Two examples you might look at for reference are: Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-01-28 AIDS reappraisal and Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-02-01 Shiloh Shepherd Dog. Thanks - FrancisTyers 15:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Mediation Cabal Request

I reviewed your Mediation Cabal request and am willing to help you out. First though, in review of your submission and in review of the article I think you need to look at some Wikipedia guidelines. I would thoroughly go through our No original research guideline for some information there. There's valuable information on how contributions such as yours could be done. Take a look at that and get back to me and we'll see what we can do. --Wgfinley 04:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)