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Welcome!

Hello, Reasoned Inquiry, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, your edit to Talk:Electromagnetic hypersensitivity does not conform to Misplaced Pages's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Misplaced Pages articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

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Discretionary sanctions

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Misplaced Pages's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor. tgeorgescu (talk) 02:07, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in pseudoscience and fringe science. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Misplaced Pages's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor. tgeorgescu (talk) 02:07, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

I am confused. I have no interest in the categories of pseudoscience, fringe science or complementary and alternative medicine. I'm interested in very select topics, one of them being the electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome page. I'm new here and would like to know why I got sanctioned. I have no idea what happened. Reasoned Inquiry (talk) 02:59, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
In fact, I couldn't be more pro-science. I am a rationalist at heart in every way I can be. That is the spirit I try hard to bring to every topic I like to discuss. If there was something I did to deserve sanctions, please don't hesitate to tell me so I don't violate your principles in the future. Thank you. Reasoned Inquiry (talk) 03:09, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
You have not been sanctioned yet. I'm not an admin, so technically I cannot sanction you.
Generally speaking, Misplaced Pages takes the medical orthodoxy at face value. This is not a forum for debates, see WP:NOTFORUM. tgeorgescu (talk) 03:47, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes. We are biased.

Jimmy Wales, founder of Misplaced Pages, once wrote:

Misplaced Pages's policies ... are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals – that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Misplaced Pages will cover it appropriately.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse". It isn't.

So yes, we are biased.

And we are not going to change. tgeorgescu (talk) 02:08, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

In your view, is a bias toward science a bias toward rationalism? Reasoned Inquiry (talk) 03:24, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
This is not a forum for rational debates. Misplaced Pages is a machine for crunching references to reliable sources that speak for themselves. It is not a university and not a scientific research institute. We do not perform research, but simply report what scientists have published. tgeorgescu (talk) 03:50, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

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