Talk:Mady Hornig

I disagree that the info about the pending lawsuit shouldn't be posted until the suit is settled. It should be posted with updates as they come. People come to MEpedia for the latest news, and this lawsuit re: Dr. Hornig's institution and her superior that oversees her ME/CFS work is news. People living with ME/CFS will want to know what the suit is about and how it will affect ME/CFS work coming out of Columbia University. If the suit was not related to Dr. Hornig's ME/CFS work, then I would agree that it is irrelevant. Likewise, I think that the suit does not have to be resolved to still be relevant news.

What do others think about it being included? 11:07, 8 May 2018 (PDT) 8 MAY 2018.2:02pm (EST)

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As the person who removed the info my view is this: The mission statement of MEpedia is "We are crowd-sourcing a knowledge base on the history, science and medicine of ME, CFS, and related diseases.". What we are discussing is whether the details of an ongoing lawsuit where one researcher has made some, as yet, unproven allegations about a fellow researcher counts as history, science or medicine of ME. As things stand I would suggest that it doesn't count as any of these things.

I would also argue that people don't come to MEpedia for the latest news, I certainly don't visit Wikipedia for the latest news. And how will the suit affect the work coming out of Columbia? My argument would be that we can't possibly know. And the suit isn't related to Dr. Hornig's actual research work. All we have is the equivalent of legal gossip. If the lawsuit is confirmed to have had an impact on the science or findings then we should revisit posting something regarding that. AndyPR (talk) 06:34, 12 May 2018 (PDT)