Talk:Xenoandrogen

Elaborate advertisement?

Much about this article is fishy. It's very assertive even though non-toxic xenoandrogens is a fairly unknown and unexplored subject (2 articles on pubmed for xenoandrogen/xeno-androgen, toxic or not).

The only reference for the classification section is a fake European medical journal "The European Journal of Endocrinology". I'm calling it fake on the grounds that it uses the ISSN number of a Canadian medical journal of similar name (and colours!) "Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism" [1], and the fact that there are no published issues of the 'European' one, and that the busy schedule of conferences and other activity on the site stopped being updated around the time it was launched, and that most of the content is copy-pasted from other on-line sources.

The only reference for the discovery of non-toxic xenoandrogens leads to an invalid doi number.

A google search for either of the two references for the biological properties of xenoandrogens returns the wikipedia article, the above fake journal, and a company selling xenoandrogens. Still, there may exist real articles by those names.

The section about toxic xenoandrogens seems normal.

'Use as performance-enhancing drugs' section is completely unsubstantiated, and the only reference is stated as World Anti-Doping Agency condemning it, but is actually a link to a blog that promotes it for the aforementioned company selling xenoandrogens. Or at this point I should perhaps say 'alleged xenoandrogens'.

The two graphics about androgens their legality to purchase/use in 'western countries' are unsubstantiated and seems to be there only to say "hey you can buy this".

All of these edits come from user Polyhister, who has done similar edits to several similar topics (Xenohormone, Anabolic steroid, Prohormone, Endocrine disruptor).

Using-rname (talk) 15:42, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

This page needs to be wildly modified.

Sooner, rather than later. This is an encyclopedia, not an illegal designer drug black market portal.

This article was almost entirely fraudulent

removed content based on fake references and OR and was left only with primary sources describing studies about endocrine disruptors. like folks above said, this appears to been some kind of add for steroids. weird Jytdog (talk) 04:22, 12 April 2016 (UTC)