Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Broda Otto Barnes (2nd nomination)
Seems like he passes : "The person has made substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity" is passed as his 1976 book ''Hypothyroidism: the unsuspected illness'' has oodles of attention from the natural medicine field. His work is now outdated, he has been latched onto by fringe groups for a long time (this from 1980http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dQgAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA51), and his work on hypothyroidism has been criticised (e.g. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5fAdyHaHbTcC&pg=PA30http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/524955http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2595160/?tool=pmcentrez), but   cannot be a reason to delete an article about a person, no matter how ridiculous the fan-boy adoration by CAM advocates gets. You want to delete this because you don't like quacks quoting him, not because of a genuine lack of notability. He published in JAMA,http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/summary/119/14/1072http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/summary/101/12/926 The Lancet,http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13796871 Science,http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17814070http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17837041 JBC, and other medical and scientific journals a number of times over several decades from the '30s to the '70s, presented at FASEB,http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1915406/, and his work was prominent enough to be quoted in the abstract of a review in ''Geriatrics'' in 1979 on hormones and heart disease:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/447079. He was quoted as a medical expert in the press over several decades, e.g. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mdXjAAAAMAAJ&q=broda+barnes&dq=broda+barnes&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=12&as_maxy_is=1990&as_brr=0&ei=6ssGTKrSIZG2ygS_6M37BQ&client=firefox-a&cd=18http://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?id=JNANAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GXcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7029,1884564&dq=broda-barnes&hl=enhttp://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lFgbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bkwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5004,1533786&dq=broda+barnes&hl=enhttp://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/467255202.html?dids=467255202:467255202&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+19%2C+1941&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=SCIENTISTS+TELL+SOME+STARTLING+NEW+DISCOVERIES&pqatl=googlehttp://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/426357281.html?dids=426357281:426357281&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+09%2C+1953&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=THYROID+LAG+SEEN+IN+COLD+VICTIMS&pqatl=google. Much of the coverage of him and his work is hiding behind pay-walls and on dead trees in libraries, so do watch out for FUTON bias. Have a browse through this pre-1990 book search to get a feel for how much coverage he received over the decades:http://books.google.co.uk/books?client=firefox-a&lr=&as_brr=0&q=broda+barnes&btnG=Search+Books&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=1&as_maxy_is=1990 Also, the nominator is a new account intimately familar with Wikipedia processes such as AfD, ANI and RfCs. I wonder if they need to be on the receiving end of another TLA: SPI
— User:Fences, 21:40, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:FRINGE (Wikipedia:Notability)