Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The ringworm children affair
whilst I can't comment on specifics in Israel, the use of radiation therapy in otherwise potentially severe and difficult to treat scalp ringworm infection (in the days before griseofulvin) was not limited to Israel, but was also standard practice in the UK in the 1930's & 1940's, so the suggestion within the article (by its sole discussion on Israel experience) of it being a sinister experiment seems just a wild conspiracy theory (notwithstanding whether or not there was sterotyping of one group of Jews against another). I still occassionally come across elderly UK patients who were so treated and have had multiple recurrent localised skin tumors since. See {{PMID|17467352}} for a paper published this year about experiences of one hospital in London. A quick search on PubMed shows also recent papers of {{PMID|17209506}} from Tunisia, {{PMID|16896588}} from Germany, {{PMID|15565500}} Italy etc etc. The example in Israel is therefore not unique, and I know of no sinsiter conspiracy theory for radiotherapy's use elsewhere to treat this condition. Therefore if it was routine and "the modern thing to do" in 1940's Britain, the sole dicussion of the use in Israel seems  focus, for what should be just a sub-section in an article with more global perspective (eg Radiotherapy for scalp ringworm). Use of a journalistic headline title for a discussion solely about a non-English speaking country seems inappropriate here in English wikipedia, where our primary readers are those from English-speaking countries (Australia, Canada, Ireland, N.Z., S.Africa, UK, US etc
— User:Davidruben, 14:06, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:UNDUE (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)