Re: [Goanet] wrt Patricia Alvares' Healing with Crystals article in the Herald

2014-02-06 Thread Jose Colaco
On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Santosh Helekar wrote: "The use of the word "curative" in a bold caption/subheading in the article could also be regarded as fraudulent in the sense that it is a "deception" or "humbug". Please see the many dictionary meanings of the word fraud: http://dictionary.re

Re: [Goanet] wrt Patricia Alvares' Healing with Crystals article in the Herald

2014-02-06 Thread Santosh Helekar
On Thursday, February 6, 2014 7:08 AM, "J. Colaco < jc>" wrote: > > >Whatever one believes or not about 'crystals' (and I know nothing about >crystals), Is Santoshbab stating that the term "curative" used by journalist / >sub-editor of the Herald in the article amounts to Fraud? > Josebab,

Re: [Goanet] wrt Patricia Alvares' Healing with Crystals article in the Herald

2014-02-06 Thread J. Colaco < jc>
On 1 February 2014 01:43, Santosh Helekar wrote: What Herald has advertised in the interview in question is quackery because of the following reasons: 1. The claims made in the interview perfectly satisfy the dictionary definitions of quackery, which is: "A FRAUDULENT claim to medical knowledg

Re: [Goanet] wrt Patricia Alvares' Healing with Crystals article in the Herald

2014-02-05 Thread Santosh Helekar
What Herald has advertised in the interview in question is quackery because of the following reasons: 1. The claims made in the interview perfectly satisfy the dictionary definitions of quackery, which is:  "A fraudulent claim to medical knowledge; treating the sick without knowledge of medici

[Goanet] wrt Patricia Alvares' Healing with Crystals article in the Herald

2014-01-31 Thread J. Colaco < jc>
On Jan 26, 2014, Roland Francis wrote: "The common man knows that what Santosh says is right. Desperate and gullible people will believe in crystal therapy or things like that either from ignorance or desperation, as he said." COMMENT: 1: Nothing I read in the Herald-interview (Patricia Alvare