Diskussion:Great Cranberry Scandal

Everybody should be aware that the English version of this article is gone. Any TRACE of it is gone -- even the 1950s tune "Cranberry Blues" by Robert Williams and the Groovers. Who would do such a thing and why? Let me take this to Google translate to get the auf Deutsch version: Jeder sollte wissen, dass die englische Version dieses Artikels nicht mehr existiert. Jede Spur davon ist weg - sogar die 50er-Melodie "Cranberry Blues" von Robert Williams and the Groovers. Wer würde so etwas tun ---- und warum? Great Cranberry Scare is more accurate, historically; but that title / article would have been deleted! "Scandal" didn't trip the alarm. Great Cranberry Scare ist historisch genauer; aber dieser Titel / Artikel wäre gelöscht worden! "Skandal" hat den Alarm nicht ausgelöst.Richard8081 (Diskussion) 20:56, 22. Feb. 2018 (CET)

Relax. I think en-wp never had a separate article about the Cranberry Scare. But it is mentioned in en:3-Amino-1,2,4-triazole. --Blech (Diskussion) 21:50, 22. Feb. 2018 (CET)

Don't tell me to "Relax". And while youre at it, don't tell me what you think , as in I think en-wp never had a separate article et seq. I'm not interested in what you think; wikipedia isn't interested in what you think; if you knew what you were talking about you would know that there certainly was such an article. I think you work for Ocean Spray. Richard8081 (Diskussion) 22:08, 13. Sep. 2019 (CEST) Seriously, Blech, why would you think that there was NOT an en-wp article about the Great Cranberry scandal? Better yet, why would you question that Ocean Spray would have it removed? Even better than that, as a Wiki administrator, can't you go back and find out? Although I've been told that there is a Delete in Wikipedia that's straight out of 1984. Like, it never happened. Which is more like out of "Rollerball" than "1984". You know - Zero. Richard8081 (Diskussion) 06:39, 17. Sep. 2019 (CEST) Everybody on .de-WP might not know that after the Great Cranberry Scare of 1959, there was the Great Cranberry Hoax of 1960. The year after the FDA took all the cranberries off the shelf and ruined Ocean Spray's cranberry business, Ocean Spray bounced back with a brilliant marketing campaign for their cranberries. They juiced the berries and added a lot of sugar and water, and slapped "For Urinary Tract Health!" on the bottles. This started a rumor that cranberry juice is a cure and a preventative for bladder infections in women ... UTI. People in the United States still fall for this myth to this day, 2019 almost sixty years later!!! So it's important to the people who want to keep this myth alive and well that Wikipedia readers not be able to go to Wikipedia and read about the Great Cranberry Scare. That's why it's a problem that the Great Cranberry Scare of 1959 article has been erased from Wikipedia in English. Okay, I'll relax now. Richard8081 (Diskussion) 15:25, 17. Sep. 2019 (CEST)

In 2008, when I improved the German article, en:wp did not have a separate article on the subject. Since 2010 it has a redirect, see en:Cranberry scare of 1959, found it today. --Blech (Diskussion) 21:03, 17. Sep. 2019 (CEST)

the link you provided goes to an article titled Arthur Flemming. Do you work for Ocean Spray , yes or no?```~ --Richard8081 (Diskussion) 03:26, 14. Aug. 2022 (CEST)

In 2005 I discovered a cure for bladder infections/UTI. It's patented US 8,063,026 and trademarked SuperMannan. It's mannan oligosaccharides from dried dead autolyzed yeast. I really wondered why my fellow Americans didn't flock to my discovery/product. It turns out that they prefer good old antibiotics; AND if they are of an alternative medicine bent, they overwhelmingly prefer and seek out .... Cranberry Juice! Everybody who hears of my medicine says "What is it, cranberry juice?" But I already knew at that time that Ocean Spray had concocted the Great Cranberry Hoax of 1960. So I was surprised that their marketing myth was still working. In my research on the subject I came across the excellent Wikipedia article called "Great Cranberry Scare of 1959". I wish I had copied it. I think I could get it via the Wayback machine, probably. Doesn't matter. Nobody wants to know; they just want to Believe in the cranberries. I told people about the Wikipedia article, evidently for years after it had disappeared!! Some cranberry secret agent did a good job of rubbing out the Wikipedia article, and now you show me that he did one thing to cover his tracks which was to do a redirect to something that sort of is like that information. NOte how it says that "99% of the crop was uncontaminated". The cranberry scare article itself didn't say anything like THAT. Like, cut me a break. There's lots of money in cranberries, certainly enough to stretch the truth for. Business is business. I guess Wikipedia, if not for sale, is certainly fair game for truthstretchers. Plastizitätwahrheitschurken. Wikipedia BTW refuses to promulgate that Richard Katz got that patent. Hmmmm -- I could probably get .de wikipedia to say that Richard got a patent on a palliative for infections of the lower urinary tract in the auf Deutsch article about urinary tract infections. Richard8081 (Diskussion) 21:54, 17. Sep. 2019 (CEST)

I added that information about US Patent 8,063,026 to the Zystitis article here on .de.wikipedia.org and it appears on my computer but it doesn't appear on a computer across the room that I am not logged in on = my wife's computer. I guess there's some kind of gatekeeper function just like on en.wikipedia Or maybe I don't understand the instructions auf Deutsch. Or that after all these years I really don't have a clue how Wikipedia works.Richard8081 (Diskussion) 15:27, 18. Sep. 2019 (CEST)

And of course it got axed quickly. There's a word for such arrant censoriousness and it starts with N.Richard8081 (Diskussion) 00:02, 20. Sep. 2019 (CEST)