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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Santosh, The problem in arguing with Gilbert is that the "point" of his posts keeps changing(now it happens in the same post, amazing!), that is why I once warned you against it. He is completely incapable of arguing point-counter point, and chooses instead to launch into long sermons interspersed with self patronising comments, bigotry and the occasional inapt use of Konkani phrases(as we have seen in the past use of bhamto, petoita muree, fugdi, etc). This time around everyone was first informed (quote) often "Old grandmothers' observations" are on or close to the mark. While their explanations for the observations may be unknown or not necessarily be correct, only a pseudo-scientist will disregard their observations.(unquote) In the very next line, following the description of the mice study/experiment we are further informed(quote)Thus the grandmother's observation was accurate.(end of quote) We were later warned (quote) So "old grand-mothers' tales" are not to be ignored except at our own peril! (end of quote) In between these two preaching's was the only informative part of the post which was (quote) The current explanation for this (statistical significant) observation is that the surgery depresses the immune system, allowing the tumours to now behave and grow even more aggressively. Hence cancer surgery has undergone and is undergoing significant shift. (end of quote) To a lay person there were clearly TWO points, no distortion at all !. The first was regarding latest cancer treatment(very informative). The next one was regarding the validation of a long standing "grandmother's observation" by a scientific experiment(pure nonsense!). It was clearly this second point you wanted to contradict and I have clearly seen that as has anyone with a half-decent command of the English language. Regards Sunith Velho Santosh writes: I humbly request Gilbert not to put words in my mouth or to point to Frederick's or anyone else's mischaracterization of my views. And I ask readers not to rely on someone else's opinion of what I said or implied. I trust Gilbert would try to understand and respect this simple principle of any public discourse. _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org