Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trevor Marshall (2nd nomination)
The reason Trevor Marshall is notable is exactly what you see happening with the article about him. He has put forth new theories about autoimmune disease and inflammatory disease. Many of these theories are quite different from the mainstream. As such, most people become uncomfortable with them and are tempted to denounce him as a quack. But, in reality, that label doesn't apply. To some extent, his hypotheses, even those about vitamin D, are holding up in at least several arenas. They seem to be holding up with the J. Craig Venter Institute who asked his group to author what they considered to be today's best interpretation of autoimmune disease viewed through the lens of metagenomic research. They hold up with hundreds of mainstream physicians around the globe who are choosing to prescribe his therapy over the standard of care for their chronically ill patients. They hold up with scientific groups in numerous countries who are asking him to give speeches that they do not just give to anyone. For example, he was asked to give the keynote speech at a prestigious international gene conference like DNA Day right after a Nobel laureate. Surely, the scientists who ran this conference do see merit in his work. His hypotheses are holding up with journal editors who have invited him to publish in mainstream peer-reviewed journals. Perhaps some of you don't fully appreciate the resistance that people meet in science when putting forth new theories. (See Kuhn.) That Marshall continues to be invited by mainstream sources to speak and publish about his research when those ideas significantly challenge standard thinking is very notable in its own right. Furthermore, while the alleged commenter above may be a sock puppet (quite honestly, I don't know who this is), I think he nails it, so I would like to restate what he said above as it is worth reading, whoever said it, "If having an article on the Marshall Protocol instead of the professor himself is going to be used as an excuse to bring the same content outside the remit of , resulting in a reduced ability to forcibly prevent Orangemarlin from adding his original researchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trevor_Marshall&diff=next&oldid=434176420, then I really don't see that as an improvement
— User:Palbert, 02:57, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BLP (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)