-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 4:23 PM Subject: Re: The decline of commercial agriculture ...Similar, colloidal minerals. Several likely suspects, a Dr. Joel Wallach seems to be the leader of the informal, cutthroat pack. He has several domain names registered, all with similar content and all selling a mineral supplement of unknown worth - he cites Senate Document #264 liberally as prima facie evidence of a problem that has only gotten worse, in his view. >The Spotlight always has ads for colloidal silver generators for $99.95. >http://www.m2ktalk.com/colloidalsilver.htm >I looked into this a few months ago, > this is what it did to one woman. >http://homepages.together.net/~rjstan/ >www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.html >http://www.google.com/search?q=Colloidal+silver+hoax >http://www.google.com/search?q=Colloidal+Silver+scam I've heard about it. >Michael Pugliese At 04:51 AM 6/14/01, Michael Perelman wrote: >Albrecht only wrote in professional journals, such as Soil Science. He >was never involved in popularizing his work or getting involved with >cranks. The people at the US Department of Ag. held him in very high >regard. I do not doubt that he was credentialed and had (has?) the respect of groups of people in various places, Dr. Wallach is also credentialed and has the respect of groups of people in various places. But did he say that the crops currently being grown are not as nutritious as they were before? Another possibility is that Dr. Albrecht's work, name and reputation are being hijacked by the quacks in the colloidal mineral industry. There may be a problem with depletion of minerals from soil, but has it really gotten worse, or are modern farming techniques cognizant of this and do they take steps to combat and minimize or reverse it? Even if the "problem" has gotten worse, is help really provided by colloidal mineral supplements? Every medical doctor I've ever spoken with has told me that, given the 'patient' has a proper diet, vitamin and mineral supplements are a waste of money, outside of a few specific exceptions (prenatal care for expectant mothers being one such). Google lists over 400 hits for "senate document 264" - the vast and overwhelming majority are advertisement pages for companies who wish to sell colloidal mineral supplements, or pages written by those who have bought into the hoax (and who often refer to another webpage where colloidal mineral supplements can be purchased). This webpage http://www.colloidal.com.au/library/section1/soildepletion.htm (for example) links Senate Document #264 to the 1992 Earth Summit Report (both are mentioned on Dr. Wallach's webpages), the Earth Summit Report is also widely cited as a "proof." Whatever G.H.W. Bush's other qualities (or lack thereof), he refused to sign any and all treaties emerging from that summit, which I find to be somewhat indicative of the relative worth of those documents. This one links the 1992 earth summit report to Dr. Albrecht, http://www.cancer-info.com/colloidal.htm Here is the rest of the story, on Senate Document #264: Written by Rex Beach, allegedly based on research by Dr. Charles Northern, it was actually an opinion piece printed in Cosmopolitan in 1936 (film at 11). <http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/colloidalminerals.htm l> Here is the National Council Against Health Fraud newsletter, which debunks a certain Dr. Wallach and his claims of mineral deficiency, it also debunks Senate Document #264 quite authoritatively: http://www.ncahf.org/nl/1998/1-2.html - it's a long page, here is the relevent excerpt: The most recent contribution to the body of counter information is offered by Donald Davis, PhD, of the University of Texas at Austin. Davis located "Senate Document 264" cited by Wallach as evidence that 99% of Americans are deficient in minerals. It turns out that the "document" is nothing more than the reprinting of a highly speculative article about a passing fad written by a Florida farmer in the June, 1936, issue of Cosmopolitan magazine as requested by Florida's Senator Fletcher. Fletcher died 16 days after requesting that the government printing office reprint the article. Davis presented his findings in the November, 1997, Townsend Letter. Davis contacted NCAHF in January and reported than Wallach was continuing to promote this erroneous document as fact on at least 40 radio stations throughout the nation. NCAHF has received inquiries from abroad about Wallach's audiotape, asking for information on its veracity. Wallach's lies appear to have become a modern, urban legend. So it all comes back to Dr. Albrecht. Did he distance himself from that earlier quackery? Are there any empirical data, grounded in tests duplicated and confirmed by laboratory analyses of soil samples and mineral content of the various fruits and vegetables? Or does it all trace back to senate document #264? If Dr. Albrecht's research is sequestered in some stodgy repositorium unwilling to share the intellectual wealth, it is as useless to me and everyone else as Dr. Wallach and the erroneous claims he bases on Senator Fletcher's fraud, aka Senate Document #264. Reese <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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