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William James Sidis

Hey Dave, I'm going to make a few grammatical/organizational changes to the autism refernces in William James Sidis. The mention of autism having genetic components probably belongs in the autism article, so I'm taking out that piece. Just giving you the heads up! Tim McCormack 18:57, 2004 Oct 12 (UTC)

Thanks for that - Diamond Dave

Dwarves etc

Hi Diamonddave, I've just looked at David Icke and wanted to tell you how much I laughed at your story about the leader who had a small dwarf planted in his intestines by Mexico with the help of the UN. LOL. I also liked your observation that insane people are the ones without followers . . . SlimVirgin 04:36, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

Formal Thought Disorder

I put an NPOV tag on the page. I request you show the information. As the discussion page would show, I'm a tad not understanding of things and not particularly clear. I'm aware of this. If there is a distinct link between misdiangosed of schizophrenia (Which there is, I know a person who have been misdiagnosed and are asperger's syndrome), and it is based on formal thought disorder, by definition it belongs in the formal thought disorder page. You're clearly far better equipped to handle this than me.J. M. 07:40, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Laser Safety

Dave,

Why are you so focused on "boiling of the vitreous" as the damage mode in the eye to receive emphasis in the introductory part of the Laser Safety article? The primary damage from visible and near IR radiation is heat burn to the retina that damages or destroys retinal nerve cells, producing a blind spot. This is clearly illustrated in the the abstract of a Nd:YAG laser injury report that you recently provided a link to. Pzavon 01:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The thermal and boiling etc. are over emphasised because I have yet improve that section by including metabolic stress effects. It may end up as a separate section. As far as I understand, intense laser light can cause non-thermal injury, in particular to cone cells (colour sensitive cells), via Phototoxicity. Intense laser light can cause cone cells to run out of oxygen, sugar, calcium or build up toxic levels of waste products (lactic acid) and die. I have university access to medical journals. I will look up Pubmed and appropriate references to make sure the info is correct. Should be done in the next 24 hours. If you know more about phototoxicity, then add the info.

Diamond Dave 28/06/2006 14:10 UT

Just read an interesting article - "Light damage to the retina occurs through three general mechanisms involving thermal, mechanical, or photochemical effects." Heating the retina by just 10 C is enough to kill photoreceptors, scary. [1] Diamond Dave 28/06/2006 14:25 UT

I would expect that laser burns will ocure before loss of oxygen or those other metabolic effects you mention if the laser is powerful enough to be called intense. Metabolic effects will be an issue only if the beam power is low enough NOT to cause a burn. Therefore the burn is the primary effect to be concerned with.

With regard to medical literature, make sure you are looking at reports of true studies (of which there are many), not accounts of clinical observations where there may be more speculation and less solid support for suggested causes. Pzavon 00:30, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is correct that powerful lasers damage the retina via heating. However, heating does not seem to explain the damage caused by laser pointers. Calculations indicate that the heating of the retina should be insufficient to cause damage. Other, non-thermal mechanisms seem to be responsible, they appear to operate only if a person stares at a laser pointer beam for several seconds or more. One mechanism proposed is oxidative stress. The basic safety calculations that rely only on estimating the thermal effects on the retina, cannot properly asses risk given that there are children and even adults foolish enough to stare at a 1 to 5 mW laser. That is why the UK bans limits to <1mW, but its not enforced.

Yes, I am aware of controlled studies that involve shining laser light onto the retinas of people about to have an eye removed. I will read those studies and update accordingly. Also there is the issue of more powerful green lasers coming on the market, exploiting legal loop-holes. I recently bought a Class IIIb 70mW 532 nm laser...thus my sudden interest in laser safety. Thanks for your help in improving my contribution. Diamond Dave 29/06/2006 13:10 UT

My point with regard to proposed non-thermal injury mechanisms is that they are NOT connected to "powerful" lasers, as those are the ones that clearly cause thermal injuries. It is with exposure to the light from less powerful lasers that these mechanisms have been proposed. Pzavon 01:40, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree. I didn’t realise that you thought I was disagreeing with you, thus my delay in understanding your point. High power lasers cause immediate damage by thermal and perhaps also (of the laser is powerful enough) explosive effects too, whereas lower power lasers cause photochemical effect in isolation, a form of damage that takes several second to occur. That is what I wrote in the article, that’s the important thing. Perhaps it should be made more clear. Diamond Dave 30/06/2006 20:00 UT

Azeztulite

Hi. I've just categorized your article on Azeztulite. Someone has proposed to merge that article into Quartz which makes some sense but I suppose it could also live on its own. In particular it would help if you created an article on "fake minerals" and even a category if there are enough articles to warrant that. I was a bit confused by the concept since it suggests that Azeztulite is not a mineral. As I understand it, it is a mineral (since it's just quartz), albeit not a miraculous one. Cheers. Pascal.Tesson 05:52, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Alexithymia page

Hi Dave. I think you used to be on the Alexithymia chatsite, I was sorry to see you go, as you have some great ideas on the subject!! I just wanted to let you know there is a bit of activity on the Wikipedia Alexithymia entry, and thought you might like to have a look, seeings you have been a main contributer. Its mostly me writing, but it felt like there was a debate coming on.

Yes, I visited the chatsite. Thanks for the info, I just visited the Wikipedia Alexithymia entry and I'm 75% happy with it. I know Prof. Fitzgerald personally, from speaking with him and reading his papers, he believes that Alexithymia and Asperger's generally (85%) describe the same group of people who were described twice by different schools of thought. Just like two blind people who visit the zoo, who touch an elephant, one says its like a tree and the other says its like a brush! They are both right. That has been lost from the article. --Diamonddavej 02:10, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

silence at Talk:Radiation hormesis

I posted a reply to you at Talk:Radiation hormesis, in a day or two, I will take your continued silence there as tacit consent to all but point 4. Pdbailey 15:22, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2008 Lincolnshire earthquake

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2008 Market Rasen earthquake

Hi Diamonddave, I want to compliment you on your excellent expansion of 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake; the technical background you added is great.

As to your query on the talk page regarding the BGS official name, I am not sure of the answer. I thought the most likely official name would be 2008 Market Rasen earthquake, which is why I created 2008 Market Rasen earthquake on Feb 27th, although it was later merged into 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake.

If the official name is 2008 Market Rasen earthquake afterall, then I suppose the content of 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake can be merged into 2008 Market Rasen earthquake which still exists as a redirect. - Neparis (talk) 00:54, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits to Radiation hormesis

In a controversial article like Radiation hormesis the citations are very important: thanks for the huge effort you're putting in to sort them out. --Old Moonraker (talk) 11:57, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. My interest in radiation hormesis was reignited by the study of Thompson et al. (2008), they found that low level radon exposure appears to decrease lung cancer risk by 60%. The publication of their report was delayed by several years because they could not get their data to fit the Linear no-threshold model. --Diamonddavej (talk) 12:14, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your like Famous

Were you on TV on some Irish documentry?

I saw a video on Youtube with some Irish guy with aspergers who was interested in minerals and formed a group for people with Aspergers.

lol —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.10.196.210 (talk) 12:58, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's me. --Diamonddavej (talk) 00:28, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What's the URL? Sioraf (talk) 14:36, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Khalidi

Hi Diamonddavej -- you'll see I removed some of your comments on the talk page per WP:BLP. No offense intended, but the problem was mainly your statement that the advisory panel was "handpicked" by the PLO, something I didn't see in the New York Times article. The surrounding comments were at least clear that they were speculation, but even that is, in my experience, strongly discouraged. Maybe you're familiar with the policy, but otherwise check it out, as it's considered extremely important on articles like this, including on the talk pages. These articles are interesting though, and certainly anything more that you find ought to be discussed. Regards, Mackan79 (talk)

No offense taken, I get too absorbed in details occasionally and this can lead me to speculate far too much without realising it. --Diamonddavej (talk) 00:33, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Complements on the image you added

Great work on the image you added to the 2008 Irish pork and beef crisis page. Very informative and well done. Jeff Carr (talk) 02:15, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

sorry re: radiation hormesis

I am sorry that I accused you of removing the POV tag from that article, I should have checked the logs more clearly. Cheers, PDBailey (talk) 13:54, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mohammed Asha

Hi, please take a look at WP:MOSBIO, the standard in Wikipedia is not to use titles like doctor or professor (or indeed His Excellency, Her Majesty etc etc) when writing about someone, instead we just use the surname when referring to the subject of the article. David Underdown (talk) 16:27, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gaza strip edit

Hello, I have commented on your recent edit on White phosphorus (weapon). If you don't object, I will revert it in a few days, please see my motivation on the |talk page. Best regards, Pietrow (talk) 09:40, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Robin

Hi Dave
Many thanks for the image of the robin
which I've included in the collage video to illustrate my choral piece "The Frostbound Wood"
The Frostbound Wood
I hope you like it
Kind regards
David
Dwsolo (talk) 16:46, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Autism and anorexia

I moved the section lower in the article as, at a glance, it is not well-established enough for inclusion in the lede. Also, the condition is spelled Asperger syndrome, not "Aspergers Syndrome". Whatever404 (talk) 11:15, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I added more references to the section, you will read that Autism and anorexia its not based on one study. Also, autism may not be a comorbidity of anorexia, its the other way around. It seems that autism could be the cognitive phenotype underlying many cases of anorexia nervosa. I should have stared off by creating the section lower down and waited to if it deserved inclusion in the lead, I did things backwards. --Diamonddavej (talk) 17:01, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for your correspondence. Yes I have indeed done quite a lot of editing and pruning of the anorexia article. Whether it reduces the quality of the article I seriously doubt it. The article a while back was an absolute shambles. If you look back over the history of the article I think people have basically just added bits and pieces over the months, most of it was just anecdotal hearsay and superfluous..and it was certainly not suitable for a medical article.. This is supposed to be an encyclopedia article and I think now it looks a lot tighter and more accurate..Best Wishes...StevieNic (talk) 18:25, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have looked at previous versions of the AN article, and it did become very messy after I added my section on autism and anorexia, I was not aware of how messy it got. But that said, I think you went too far in your edits and some important material was removed, especially the relationship to autism section, which is the basis of the Maudsley approach to treating AN - the only treatment that has substantial and long lasting benefits. --Diamonddavej (talk) 18:50, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have again checked some of the cited sources and other medical articles and yes you are correct, there does seem to be evidence to support Family based treatment so it does deserve a mention within a medical background. However, we must pay attention to 'undue weight' and maintaining a NPOV within WP guidelines.StevieNic (talk) 20:07, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple sclerosis

I have reverted your addition of refences to the article and I want to comment why: Secondary references are preferred to primary ones in wikipedia, and additionally quantity of references does not make quality. The medscape article is the closest thing we have to a secondary source up to the moment, reviewing and commenting with a neutral point of view Zamboni's findings, therefore there is no point in also adding the primary sources. Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 16:16, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Roy Spencer

Hi Diamonddavej,

Discussing what should go in Spencer's bio here Talk:Roy_Spencer_(scientist)#Spencer_.26_Braswell_2011.You may or may not be interested.--IanOfNorwich (talk) 09:15, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Edits to radiation hormesis page

Hi Diamonddavej,

Following your edits, I've made some comments on the radiation hormesis talk page. I hope we can discuss the appropriate content for this quotation there. Best regards, ConradMayhew (talk) 08:14, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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A kitten for you!

Hello, I have Asperger's too!

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