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Please help - need consensus before author will correct an error

This statement: <<The Indian Medical Association describes Ayurvedic practitioners who claim to practice medicine as quacks.>> misquotes Indian Medical Association. The Indian Medical Association actually describes Ayurvedic practitioners who claim to practice modern medicine as quacks. Ayurvedic medicine is not the same thing as modern medicine, and it is actually a highly respected practice in India. The misquote is used to inappropriately support the author's bias (I'm a veteran science author and this type of thing bothers me a lot). I requested that the sentence be deleted, but the author refuses to do so unless I can get a consensus for the change. Please chime in.

[Specifically, the Indian Medical Association Quackery division says "Practitioners of Indian Medicine (Ayurvedic, Sidha, Tibb, Unani), Homeopathy, Naturopathy, commonly called Ayush, who are not qualified to practice Modern Medicine (Allopathy) but are practicing Modern Medicine" are quacks (https://www.ima-india.org/ima/free-way-page.php?pid=143). In other words, Ayurvedic practitioners are not supposed to practice MODERN MEDICINE unless they have the qualifications to do so. It's an important distinction and was misstated by the author of this article. Ayurveda has been an accepted form of medicine in India and was formally recognized as such in 1970 by the Central Council of Indian Medicine Act. The IMA does not call Ayurvedic physicians who practice Ayurvedic medicine quacks. I have written to them to report the misquote.] Lisastarr (talk) 19:08, 4 December 2021 (UTC)