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wah wah wah. I wrote it and I didn't sell it. Yes, I published it on Ed's site, too. But I own that copyright. Whatever. I wrote something new.

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A tag has been placed on John A. McDougall, M.D., requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

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