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Welcome to MCB

Hi there, welcome to the Wikiproject! If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please drop me a note on my talkpage. All the best Tim Vickers (talk) 20:45, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Citation formatting

Hi Bform. Thanks for creating the Restrictive dermopathy and Zaragozic acid‎ articles. In case you haven't already seen this, given a PubMed ID, you can easily create a fully formatted citation using User:Diberri's Wikipedia template filling tool that can directly be copied and pasted into a Wikipedia article. This tool can also be used to create other useful templates like Chemboxes. Cheers. Boghog2 (talk) 06:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

edit summary on vitamin C article: somewhat of a logical fallacy and maybe not best context.

I'm not sure what you edit summary reflects as I didn't check the edit but I had earlier cotribbed material on bad effects from too much including kidney damage. There have been cancer studies that showed increased problems with other anti-oxidant supplements. An inconclusive study doesn't prove anything, you need to look at overall literature. Certainly this is a research area but you want tthe wiki statement to reflect prominence of views and there are reasonably prominent and reliable studies suggesting that problems are possible. Now, it is possible to get definitive negative results but you would need posisitve accepted proof and may want to mention why that was needed ("earlier it was thought that too much was bad but the highly cited paper foo[] proved this wrong"). Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 13:55, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

I guess if the edit was just designed to make accurate attribution to the source, that would be an important clarification based on abstract, "In low-bias risk trials, after exclusion of selenium trials, beta carotene (RR, 1.07; 95% CI, 1.02-1.11), vitamin A (RR, 1.16; 95% CI, 1.10-1.24), and vitamin E (RR, 1.04; 95% CI, 1.01-1.07), singly or combined, significantly increased mortality. Vitamin C and selenium had no significant effect on mortality. CONCLUSIONS: Treatment with beta carotene, vitamin A, and vitamin E may increase mortality. The potential roles of vitamin C and selenium on mortality need further study." but it is possible there are more details in the paper that they just didn't think were even conclusive enough to word that way in the abstract. So, sure, you may have corrected an important detail inaccuracy here. These types of meta-analyses are often rather limited but that is quite interesting for merit. Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 14:01, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Radioactivity

I noticed now your comment on Radioactivity in biological research, a page which I kicked started 3 years ago and abbandoned to accumulate minor edits. It gets only 50 viewers per day, but it does warrant some work. I did not get what you ment by single point of view? (I find it looks like a list of possible uses). (if replying, could you do it in the talk?) Thanks --Squidonius (talk) 06:47, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

File:PivaloyloxymethylWphosphonate.gif listed for deletion

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