Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-24 Thread Bosco D
-Original Message- From: Ivo **You are right, Bosco. But why to stop giving links. Precisely you have to assess the value of the links. But what you call scientific can be the result of power and politics... That is the risk. Today there is so much pressure of the multinational

[Goanet] Science of manipulations( Ivo)

2010-10-23 Thread anil desai
Fr Ivo wrote: Pedophilia is a crime. We cannot say that the Catholic Church is producing abusive priests. There has been a lot of false propaganda, money greed (accusing after 40 years), blown off out of proportion, anytihing being considered to be pedophilia( a hug, a slap, a touch). If there

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-21 Thread E DeSousa
bury the battle axe and try to get along.

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-21 Thread Frederick Noronha
Sorry. This is not possible. We are Goan :-) FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 21 October 2010 20:08, E DeSousa ejd...@att.net wrote: bury the battle axe and try to get along.

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-21 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 21 October 2010 21:34, Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry. This is not possible. We are Goan :-) FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 RESPONSE: On this I agree with you completely! -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-21 Thread Ivo
JC wrote: See how this sounds - this is not my view but a view using Ivorian logic It was in October 1999. But the controversy still continues... Today there is no consensus among the general population. The Christian Church (and Hindu ones too) have 'produced' abusive priests and sadhus.

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-20 Thread Ivo
From: Bosco D bos...@canada.com Let me keep it simple: All the links in the world are not going to give your story any credibility unless the links are current and from a credible source. I suggest you stop forwarding more links because all the links you have provided thus far have bogus

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-20 Thread J. Colaco jc
[1] Bosco D bos...@canada.com I see Fr. Ivo has passed on a link from an October edition of Oxygen. Which October might this have been?? 15-20 years ago, perhaps?? Or further back in time?? [2] Ivo icso...@bsnl.in wrote: **It was in October 1999. But the controversy still continues... Today

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
There is no truth to the claims made in the post appended below. In particular, the claim that there is a controversy about the safety of aspartame among scientists is completely false. To add to the public health information from reliable sources that I have already provided, I quote below

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
Bosco has already pointed out how misinformation regarding aspartame is being spread in this thread through bogus websites. Interspersed below I correct all the false statements made by Ferdinando, some of which involve misrepresentations of what I said. --- On Sun, 10/17/10, Dr. Ferdinando

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-18 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
Santosh Helekar said : The fact that the above assertion is bogus is clear from the following announcement entitled Study reaffirms safety of aspartame provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), itself: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1998/aspartame-0916.html

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-18 Thread Bosco D
Comments from Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão Oct 15/10 Read how though it was found to produce cancer, it was approved using political muscle power. Oct 16/10 if they just google “Aspartame, genetically engineered” they will get 60 thousand and more sites to confirm from. Oct 16/10 I would

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-17 Thread Santosh Helekar
This is my consolidated refutation of the factually erroneous statements made in the two posts appended below. The claim that just because one obtains more than 60,000 hits on Google by searching for the phrase aspartame, genetically modified, it must be true, is naive and demonstrably false.

[Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-17 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
- Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcao wrote: Goanetters are not an illiterate lot to be fooled by false and inaccurate information obtained by 'cut and paste' method.  They have google with them, and if they just google Aspartame, genetically engineered they will get 60 thousand and

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-17 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
Santosh Helekar said : Aspartame is made from two naturally occurring amino acids. One of the natural amino acids used, namely phenylalanine is sometimes obtained in pure form in some parts of the world from a strain of harmless bacteria (E. coli) that live in our gut under normal

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-17 Thread Santosh Helekar
I have already told you why one should not trust any weblink provided by somebody on Goanet, or through chain emails. We find once again in the post appended below the following bogus assertion: That Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have proved it to be harmful and

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-17 Thread Bosco D
-Original Message- From: Gilbert Lawrence So now we have web-links on both sides of the issue (not surprisingly). Who is to tell / say which web-link is more of an authority? RESPONSE: The onus is on the reader. And depends on the topic. For eg. Obtaining gardening tips from a

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-16 Thread Bosco D
-Original Message- From: Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão ASPARTAME is a genetically engineered artificial sweetener used as sugar substitute. It is marketed in India as ‘Sugar free”, ‘Low calorie sugar’, etc.; it is also used in ‘diet’ products like ‘diet Coke’, etc. Read how though

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-16 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
Goanetters are not an illiterate lot to be fooled by false and inaccurate information obtained by 'cut and paste' method. They have google with them, and if they just google “Aspartame, genetically engineered” they will get 60 thousand and more sites to confirm

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-16 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 10/15/10, Bosco D bos...@canada.com wrote: I would caution against distributing such unfounded information to anybody. Nobody can prevent such unfounded information from being distributed on Goanet or by chain emails. The only thing that one can do on Goanet is provide

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-16 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
Bosco D. wrote : Are the above weblinks mainstream news or medical websites?? I doubt. Coca-Cola [1] themselves admit to using aspartame [2]. Does Coca-cola intentionally and knowingly include known carcinogens in their products?? And the FDA is not stepping in?? Perhaps, sometime in

Re: [Goanet] Science of Manipulations

2010-10-15 Thread Santosh Helekar
The information provided in the post appended below is not accurate. Please see the following responsible sources for accurate information on aspartame: http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.265/healthissue_detail.asp