Talk:Johanna Budwig

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I'm not crazy about the editing job someone did to this page. I had links to the diet. I also don't think you need links to "diet" and "German" but I quibble.

Not sure why we have to point out that oncologists don't believe in it and why they edited out my entries regarding people who have had their leukemia and cancers CURED from this diet, amazing even their doctors.

The leukemia cure was my wife.

I presume that you're referring to these edits. The largest chunk of text was removed because it was apparently copied directly from an external site. Just providing a link to the site from which it was copied doesn't allow Wikipedia to reproduce a substantial portion of another author's work, I'm afraid. The link to the full copy of the information is preserved in the External links section of the article, as is usual Wikipedia practice.
The degree of wikilinking is somewhat subjective, though it seems to be traditional to link the first reference to a country.
It is normal for encyclopedia articles—those in Wikipedia included—to describe the opinions of relevant experts. The vast majority of oncologists don't believe dietary changes (Budwig's or any others) can cure cancer, and this is worth noting.
In general, it's not appropriate to include personal opinion or anecdotes, which is why those passages were removed or edited. --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 21:15, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

You know what, the entire world of "medicine" is being written by those who have a vested interest in the status quo. Of course oncologists don't like the Budwig Diet because they get all their money from the drug companies and by prescribing chemotherapy.

I just think your edits were overly negative.

[edit] Nobel Peace Prize

Budwig's supporters have on at least six occasions nominated her for a Nobel Peace Prize (she has never been considered for a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, however.)

  • Being nominated for the Peace Prize is an honor, but it is not official and not necessarily prestigious. Any national legislator or about a third of the university professors in the world can make a nomination, and there have been as many as 160 some years. Rumored nominees have included a Brazilian psychic (nominated twice) and an unscrupulous businessmen from Ohio. Nominators are requested to keep their nominations secret, so it's only those wishing publicity who make announcements. In most instances the reports of prize nominations seem to just be unattributed rumors. Altogether, I see no reason to keep it. No offense to the subject, this is a general Nobel Peace Prize "nominees" issue. -Willmcw July 7, 2005 07:58 (UTC)
  • I'm inclined to agree, for the reasons stated. (Chief among them are the verifiability issues, since the Nobel committee keeps the official list of nominations secret for fifty years.) TenOfAllTrades(talk) 7 July 2005 12:09 (UTC)
In fact, I'm almost inclined to leave this intact, just as an indicator of how totally meaningless a nomination is. But we can keep it here on the talk page. Cheers, -Willmcw 18:38, July 20, 2005 (UTC)