User talk:SwMessand
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Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any problems. I wish you all the best on your wiki voyages! Zefr (talk) 17:50, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
April 2019[edit]
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Metabolic syndrome, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Your content - which I reverted and introduced on the talk page - is an extraordinary claim and synthesis of interpretations which are not mainstream; this is WP:OR. I could find no systematic review in the clinical literature to support the statements in your edit. Zefr (talk) 17:53, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hi, I cited the source where I received all of this information. It is NOT a tale of my personal experience, this is information comes from a peer-reviewed book written by an expert in this field. This claim is not extraordinary in the slightest. Please revert your edits.
- Hello. Your edit stated: "Moreover, this syndrome is argued to be another form of colorblind racism. Medical researchers that use metabolic syndrome to address racial inequalities in health have essentially reconstructed race as a fixed biological fact without understanding social and economic factors as part of the equation. An estimated sixty million Americans are diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, a majority of which are people of color. The causes of metabolic syndrome are framed in racial terms, as are potential drug treatments and nutritional health interventions." Your source was Hatch's book.
- I would argue that "colorblind racism" is controversial, probably untrue, and not supported by the general medical community. A strong review is needed for such an extraordinary claim. Metabolic syndrome is prevalent throughout the developed world, not just the USA. You would need an "Asian", British, and/or EU perspective - from a WP:MEDRS systematic review or meta-analysis of completed high-quality clinical trials - to make such a statement. The Hatch book is insufficient. --Zefr (talk) 15:04, 25 April 2019 (UTC)