Talk:Gabasync

message: If the doctors are prescribing a combination of existing medicine, which is supplied by drug companies, not Prometa, how are they making money?--Jeff (talk) 02:29, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What are they selling?

message: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/07/60minutes/main3590535.shtml makes the claim "that no independent test on the treatment has been done."  Is there a way to verify which studies are being done by those who do not have a profit to be made if certain results are provided?  It seems idiotic that with most of the %150 million dollars raised for the drug going to marketing, as the 60 Minutes article reports, they couldn't spend a bit of it doing a proper test that would make everyone happy.  They could just give samples to an independent research group, and let them do the test. Dream Focus (talk) 00:54, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Current Studies

message: In the fourth paragraph of this article it states "patients have anecdotally reported..".  ITNOG what is the difference between "reported" and "anecdotally reported"?  None whatever; but the buzzword anecdotal is used to deprecate what has been reported.  Anecdotal doesn't add information, just puts a spin on the information.  Not Wiki.
Secondly, a anecdote is by definition something second-hand, informal or exaggerated; on what basis has the writer of this article decided that the reports are any of these? 71.181.177.77 (talk) 01:07, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Because that's a commonly used phrase in medicine, that's why. When there are reports from individual patients about a drug (as opposed to scientifically conducted double-blind studies) it is common to refer to them as "anecdotal" reports. Words often have more than one meaning. It's not "spin". See Anecdotal evidence. Ward3001 (talk) 01:32, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree that the usage of "anecdotally" is correct.  It is specifically used to differentiate between scientific research with all the methods that entails, versus, well, anecdotes.--Jeff (talk) 02:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

text: I think the point is that 'Patients have reported' and 'Anecdotal reports' are both informative, but 'Anecdotal patient reports' is redundant. So one or the other ought to go.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.118.123.126 (talk) 10:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That may be your point, but it was not 71.181.177.77's point, who was trying to argue that use of the phrase was an attempt by the writer to be intentionally midleading. Ward3001 (talk) 17:44, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean up this Article

message: I reverted 98.206.221.93's addition of the current event tag and replaced it with "As of" per WP:ASOF. The use of the current event tag, per WP:CURRENT, isn't to mark activities that are on-going. Instead,
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All of these conditions contradict its use. However, using "As of" is the appropriate solution. ∴ Therefore | talk 18:35, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly it was an atypical use of , but  and as-of didn't seem to precisely pin down the problem either.  I intended the  as more of a section-wide as-of, since the section seemed to be heavily focused on what's happened over the last two months and what will happen in the near future. There are still five places where the word "currently" is used along with present-tense.   But maybe that's fine... I'm not used to layman coverage discussing ongoing studies at length, but those more familiar with the subject matter may be more used to seeing this. --98.206.221.93 (talk) 23:51, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The result of the completed study will be published (if at all) sometime late in 2008 and more likely 2009. The other studies will be published in 2009 or 2010. This doesn't describe current events nor does it come close to being a "current event" requiring the tag. ∴ Therefore | talk 04:10, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Your point is well taken that the "as of" should apply to the entire set of currently planned studies. I've modified the text so that the "as of"'s scope encompasses all the studies. Thanks for pointing that out. ∴ Therefore | talk 07:55, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverting the current event tag