Talk:Ergot

message: Can we NPOV the Jesus stuff a bit? DryGrain 21:05, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I think it needs major trimming and a complete rewrite. As it is now, it is an interpretation of some bible verses. That's somebody's personal idea about the meaning of these verses, not encyclopedic material. Lupo 07:14, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: Please sign your contributions. You can do so by adding ~~~~ at the end of your statements. As to your points: just because somebody interpretes some Bible passages in a certain way doesn't mean that his or her interpretation was "right" or even the only one possible. Bible interpretation is highly subjective, and different people come to different conclusions. Please do not advocate one particluar point of view in the article — we're trying to build an encyclopedia, which should report established facts in an unbiased way. Also note that the sheer length of this interpretation is disproportionate to the whole article. Lupo 08:41, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: Concerning "living water": again, that this means "water that changes your life" and has a connection to ergot is just one point of view. It could also simply mean that water is essential for living. Don't forget that many regions in the area are and were arid or even deserts, so water naturally was a major concern. Lupo 09:14, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV of bible stuff 

message: I've added a taxobox for the genus Claviceps to this page. I figured this would be alright since "ergot" can refer to members of the genus besides C. purpurea. Is this correct? Does anyone have pictures of ergot that they would like to share? Mycota 07:20, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taxobox 

message: Should the use of ergotamine in migraines be mentioned in the article? Anchoress 15:08, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ergotamine]] and migraines 

message: Is ergot and ergotamin the same thing? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Samui (talk • contribs) 19:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ergot vs. ergotamin 

message: article says: "Most famously, ergot intoxicated a whole French village in 1951, at Pont-Saint-Esprit."
However Psychedelics Encyclopedia (Peter Stafford, 3rd ed ) says this is erroneous and was actually caused by an organic mercury compound used to disinfect seeds (p90).
thoughts?
I can provide photocopy/fax of page on request. email <anom_aloc_arus(at)hotmail.com> (omit underscores)
213.122.30.207 00:06, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  factual error re ergot/france/1951? 

message: I thought to genus Sphacelia
http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=194427  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinof (talk • contribs) 08:38, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the genus Claviceps once was named, or part of the genus, Sphacelia; but here "sphacelia" refers to the particular mycelial morphology (I'm not sure if mycologists still use the term), so it's not a noun. Malljaja (talk) 14:44, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Life cycle

message: Claviceps purpurea is probably not guilty but mercury too.
Mercury is a not founded hypothesis (see R.-L Bouchet Phytoma défense des cultures n°323 december 1980)
possible hypothesis are Aspergillus fumigatus or whiteners. 
--Pinof (talk) 15:53, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Poisonings mistaken for ergotism

message: I can't find any other references to this Canadian cereal fly on the internet. Could be totally made up by a rogue editor. Someone prove my cynicism wrong with good references.  Asht0n (talk) 16:52, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Canadian cereal fly"

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message: The two articles, Ergotism and Ergot, appear unhelpfully linked:  The Ergot article's section on the effects of ergot on humans, notes the Ergotism article as being the "main article" for this, however, the Ergotism article seems to add little more information to that contained in Ergot section, other that on ergotism's connections to witchcraft.  Consequently, and as there is already an inline link to it in Ergot, I have deleted the sub-heading link there, and have added an inline link into the Ergotism article linking to the Ergot article's section on the effects of ergot on humans.  The Ergotism article needs to be expanded to include at least all the information in Ergot article on the subject to be referred to from there as the main article. The ergotism article lede states that ergotism refers only to "the effect of  ergot poisoning"LookingGlass (talk) 13:21, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ergotism and Ergot