Talk:Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

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This article needs some work. I have moved things around and tried to organzie it according to wiki standards. Citations need to be added to the reference section. I will do some research and try to make improvements to this article. KarateLadyKarateLady 19:27, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Is it possible to update this article? I believe Dr. Batmanghelidj was actually an MD, not a naturopath. If you read his works, he is quite informed on the science behind water and what it can do for the human body. And is there a source for his HIV/AIDS denial? 47.189.56.74 (talk) 22:21, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

The article provides a source for his HIV/AID denialism and notes that there is no science behind his so-called "Water Cure". If you have specific reliable sources that meet WP:RS to support your changes, please bring them up. Otherwise, it would be incredibly irresponsible for us to claim this guy is anything other than a crank. --Yamla (talk) 10:03, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

"His ideas have not yet been adopted by the medical community"

"His ideas have not yet been adopted by the medical community." This sentence is repeated twice. I don't really see the reason for it in the article at all. Firstly, this statement is vague and misleading. It does not specify *which* medical community has not yet adopted his ideas, and also does not specify *which* of his ideas have not been adopted. Secondly, I think this sentence is placed in the article with the sole purpose of discrediting the subject of the article; specifically because it is repeated verbatim in the Life and Work section, where it seems to be completely out of context, and because it is one of the first sentences one reads in the article. This sentence detracts from the quality of the article. I'm removing both instances. Perhaps the original editor who placed this statement in the article twice would like to deal with the objections at the beginning of this comment. Marcofurbo (talk) 22:18, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

I believe the sentence was written to address concerns of necessary context when describing Batmanghelidj's ideas. This article would misinform if readers were left with the impression that water is a common cure for asthma &c., or that thirst manifests as common disease symptoms. The first instance of the sentence is as part of the lead summary, but I have added some context to the statement in the body of the article. Take a look. - 2/0 (cont.) 14:16, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Another reference

I added several references to the article, here is another:

What proof does Dr. Batmanghelidj have that drinking large amounts of water can actually prevent and cure all of these various diseases? The evidence he presents is almost purely anecdotal. Both Dr. Batmanghelidj 's book and his Web site are full of testimonials by people saying, "I tried it and it worked!" We have seen, however, that anecdotal evidence of this sort is highly unreliable. Every useless quack remedy and snake-oil treatment since the dawn of civilization has been supported by anecdotal evidence. The only way to be sure that a treatment is effective is to test it scientifically under rigorous, controlled conditions.

Source: Gregory Bassham. (2005). Critical Thinking: A Student's Introduction. McGraw-Hill. p. 472. Skeptic from Britain (talk) 02:18, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

npov

even the intro is poorly written ..

"He is best known for believing increased water consumption is the cure for most disease, which is considered quackery by medical experts."

implies "all experts" believe thinking about the amount of water is quackery - when he himself was a medical expert - some might, but well then write "some experts"

- btw water is missing in the quack food pyramid .. go figure ..

later in the article the initial sentence gets put to the extreme as generalization - all disease ..

having fun creating a strawman fallacy .. Ebricca (talk) 09:11, 14 October 2023 (UTC)