Talk:Postmortem caloricity
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Unreliable sources
[edit]Hi.
I recently rewrote the Postmortem caloricity page according to information available in web-accessible medical textbooks (the former stub not citing any sources). However, I've become concerned about the veracity of the information in the cited texts for the following reasons:
-It seems that all available medical books containing information regarding the subject have been published in India;
-The information regarding the subject in these books is often very similar, sometimes with overlapping, identical chunks of text;
-I've noticed (some of) the books are written in poor English;
-I couldn't really find any primary sources/original research/reviews on the topic or even mentioning the term (save an ancient paper from the NEJM).
All this has led me to fear that the information regarding this phenomenon contained in these books may all be derived from a single locally available/"popular" source, possibly of dubious veracity, and 'postmortem caloricity' may not actually be widely considered "a thing", either as an actual phrase to describe an actual phenomenon/occurrence, or as a real, extant phenomenon.
Input regarding whether these sources should be considered trustworthy, and additional sources to verify and vindicate the claims would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards, -J Jay Hodec (talk) 20:34, 24 January 2018 (UTC)