Re: [Goanet] Bring back the British!

2011-07-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
Mr. Nunes, The male:female ratio I have given is for the population as a whole, as far as I know, not at birth or at any particular age. The greater lopsidedness of the male:female ratio in China indicates greater sex selection in abortions and infanticides. This problem has afflicted many

Re: [Goanet] A secular Governance?

2011-07-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
I will let sober and rational people in this forum decide what kind of communal seeds were sown by whom in which family, and also who is spreading misinformation here. But if someone wants to read about communal policies of the Portuguese government, and communalism among the Hindus and

Re: [Goanet] A secular Governance?

2011-07-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
have learned that the situation was much worse in the past than it is today. For one thing, today the power is shared equally by politicians of both communities elected by the people of Goa. UNQUOTE .Santosh Helekar Please note the phrase from the history that I have read above, which Falcao

Re: [Goanet] Bring back the British!

2011-07-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
Mr. Nunes, Thanks for the PLoS One paper, and for this good discussion. Please note that the discrepancy in the sex ratio numbers is because of the difference in the exact type of measurement, as I had implied earlier - sex ratio in the entire population according to the 2001 census, which is

Re: [Goanet] A secular Governance?

2011-07-05 Thread Santosh Helekar
: On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:10:06 -0700 , Santosh Helekar wrote : Falcao is misrepresenting me in his material below by truncating what I said in response to Floriano (not Falcao), and what my responses in this thread were all about. Here is my correct quote from my prior post: QUOTE From my parents

Re: [Goanet] A secular Governance?

2011-07-06 Thread Santosh Helekar
, and communalism among the Hindus and Catholics during the 451 years of Portuguese rule, and in the early sixties, then here are some references that I have read on this subject: ..Santosh Helekar Please note the reference to both Hindus and Catholics above, and to communalism in the 1960s

Re: [Goanet] A secular Governance?

2011-07-07 Thread Santosh Helekar
a case of hearing only what we want to hear. The flip side is those who would like to believe that Goa was an oasis of communal harmony till 1961. Both perspectives are short-sighted, in my view. FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 On 6 July 2011 19:50, Santosh Helekar chimbel

Re: [Goanet] Temple Dress Code

2011-07-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
It is unfortunate that restrictions are imposed by temples, churches and mosques. But since they are parochial religious institutions they have the right to follow their illiberal traditions. Under the Indian secular constitution the public or the government cannot impose their will on them.

Re: [Goanet] Global Goan Convention

2011-07-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
If Eugene has not read Dr. Sardesai's presentation at the convention, how can he conclude that it was superficial? What is the purpose of this premature excretion based on a blurb in a press release? Cheers, Santosh --- On Mon, 7/25/11, Eugene Correia eugene.corr...@gmail.com wrote: The

Re: [Goanet] Game over for Goa

2011-07-26 Thread Santosh Helekar
The problem with Goans and many other Indians is that they have no respect for their own country and countrymen - call them third rate, etc., and spit on them at every turn. How do you expect them to care for their own culture and environment? Cheers, Santosh --- On Tue, 7/26/11, Rajan P.

Re: [Goanet] Norwegian Killer Anders Behring is a fan of Right Wing Hindu Nationalists against Muslims: FORWARDED A REPORT:

2011-07-26 Thread Santosh Helekar
It looks like religious extremists of all three kinds, namely Hindu, Christian and Muslim subscribe to the same world view and predisposition against each other. Cheers, Santosh --- On Tue, 7/26/11, Gerald Fernandes cdoger...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 11:29 AM The

Re: [Goanet] Norwegian Killer Anders Behring is a fan of Right Wing Hindu Nationalists against Muslims: FORWARDED A REPORT:

2011-07-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
It is interesting to see the highly predictable and gaudy display of political opportunism from all sides subsequent to the Norwegian terrorist act. The so-called Catholic Secular Forum and the secularist Soter have blamed extremist Indian Hindus for the atrocious act of a Norwegian criminal

Re: [Goanet] Norwegian Killer Anders Behring is a fan of Right Wing Hindu Nationalists against Muslims: FORWARDED A REPORT:

2011-07-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
Here is the link to the article by Chris Hedges: http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/fundamentalism_kills_20110726/ Cheers, Santosh --- On Wed, 7/27/11, Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com wrote: It is interesting to see the highly predictable and gaudy display of political opportunism

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: Sneezing at the Brahmanical: Polemics at the Global Goans Convention (Jason Keith Fernandes)

2011-07-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
The article below is one of the most useless piece of writing I have ever read. It does not tell me anything about the specifics of what Dr. Damodar Sardesai presented, and what was so egregious or untrue about what he said. All I learned from it is that using the word brahmanical has a some

Re: [Goanet] Norwegian Right Wing Killer Breivik: (Santosh Helekar)

2011-07-28 Thread Santosh Helekar
for the facile skills of Santosh Helekar to with impunity misread and misinterpret the contents of any posting which does not fit into his world view. Alas, were there to be no more people added to this categorisation  Santosh could even seek a PATENT for his intellectual property rights! The article

Re: [Goanet] Sneezing at the Brahmanical Polemics...

2011-07-28 Thread Santosh Helekar
Jason Keith Fernandes, an aspiring member of the cloistered academic world wrote a polemic not just ridiculing and condemning the perspectives of two historians informed by their reading of recorded history of Portuguese colonialism in Goa, but by psychoanalyzing their unstated intentions, and

Re: [Goanet] :Don Bosco Engg : ( Naguesh Bhatcar)

2011-08-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
I too have tried to speak out against this communal crap from the political activists in Goa and India. They have nothing else to contribute, other than to launch a communal or casteist attack without any rhyme or reason. The debate between Gerry and Naguesh was such a welcome change from this

Re: [Goanet] Fwd: Murder- Suicides: The Mental State of Mental Health Professionals as a Risk Prone Group

2011-08-06 Thread Santosh Helekar
It is never prudent to draw sweeping conclusions from anecdotes that you read in the newspaper. Murder-suicide rate is also negligible to non-existent among psychiatrists. If one wants to find an anecdotal news story wherein a Catholic priest or any other kind of spiritual person committed

Re: [Goanet] (Santosh Helekar)Murder-Suicides The Mental State of Mental Health Professionals.............

2011-08-07 Thread Santosh Helekar
Dear Gerry, It is quite normal to be dazzled by all the flashy self-help books and websites that are published today to cater to a vast postmodern readership, making all kinds of sensational claims about how this spiritual technique or that or this religious/humanistic belief or that cures

Re: [Goanet] Gabe's response to 'Reflections after the Global Goans Convention

2011-08-08 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 8/8/11, Jason Keith Fernandes jason.k.fernan...@gmail.com wrote: The agenda of the Indian State exists, whether we like it or not. Which Goan Indian citizen does not like the agenda of the Indian state? It looks like Jason Keith wanted only his agenda, whatever it is, and only

Re: [Goanet] What is Independence day

2011-08-16 Thread Santosh Helekar
Most Goans who live in Goa and all other states of India know that they are and always have been Indians. This is also true of most Indians who live abroad. This sense of ethnic identity is very important for the success of any nation. All one has to do to recognize this is to know citizens of

Re: [Goanet] What is Independence Day ?

2011-08-17 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 8/16/11, Antonio Menezes ac.mene...@gmail.com wrote: I could be wrong and stand to be corrected, the Indian nation was the creation of the British empire builders.  For Shivaji and his descendents it was Maratha empire and for the Chitpawan brahmins  who followed it was Peshwe

Re: [Goanet] Re : What is Independence Day ?

2011-08-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 8/17/11, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão drferdina...@hotmail.com wrote: The Indian Empire was formed by the British with its political boundaries as in this official map. The Indian Empire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Indian_Empire_1909_Imperial_Gazetteer_of_India.jpg

Re: [Goanet] What is Independence day

2011-08-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
It is only worthwhile to talk about most Goans, and the sane ones at that. It is very likely that most in this case is more than 90%. From what I have stated it should be clear that I am talking about ethnicity, not nationality. Nationality is established by birth or naturalization,

Re: [Goanet] What is independence day

2011-08-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
We are fortunate that at least in Goa we do not have a separatist political party, militating against India, to add to the menace created by the Hindu nationalist organizations such as Hindu Janajagruti Samiti. Regarding Goa SuRaj party, hopefully, I will receive an official response from its

Re: [Goanet] What is independence day

2011-08-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
A secessionist movement against a sovereign state is by definition a political movement. Please read the following paper entitled, The Political Economy of Secession from Oxford University: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball0144/self-det.pdf All secessionist organizations are therefore political

Re: [Goanet] How many expat Goans inyour City/country

2011-08-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
What George has said below is very close to the truth. But I also want to state the positive side of Goans: 8. Indian citizen Goans who believe and accept that they are Indians: 14,57,623 Indian citizen Goans who believe they are non-Indians: 100 Indian citizen Goans who are anti-Indian: 15

Re: [Goanet] RE (Santosh Helekar): Part I II:The Mental State of Mental Health Professionals: Some Peer-Reviewed Data.

2011-08-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
Dear Gerry, Please have some intellectual honesty. It is you who has insinuated Catholic priests and Catholic religion in this discussion in the first place, not me. As for the comical random list of articles on spirituality that you have provided below, have you read any of those articles? If

Re: [Goanet] Re (Santosh Helekar)Murder-Suicides: The Mental State of Mental Health Professionals......

2011-08-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
Dear Gerry, First, let me say that I appreciate this honest, sober and substantive effort to discuss a topic of general intellectual interest. This kind of a thing is rare on Goanet. Not the general interest part, but the honesty, sobriety and substance. Second, the topic of spirituality and

Re: [Goanet] Doctors and corruption

2011-08-30 Thread Santosh Helekar
Very sorry to hear that doctors in India are more corrupt than members of other professions such as engineers, teachers, contractors, judges, lawyers, government servants, politicians, political activists, priests, journalists, policemen, etc. Cheers, Santosh --- On Tue, 8/30/11, Tony de Sa

Re: [Goanet] Doctors and corruption

2011-08-31 Thread Santosh Helekar
that preachers of all major and minor religions crave for. So then what would our CBI do? And the police and our pet monster rats? And Saviours of Goa who defected to Kangress? And the A. G.? Last but not the least, poor Aires would be deprived of his hobby? In response to Santosh Helekar: Very

Re: [Goanet] B. M. Hegde - At Sages Scientists Symposium LA

2011-09-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
I have never understood why mainstream doctors who do not trust science and scientific medicine (invariably and ironically on account of being duped by bogus information they read on quack websites) continue to teach and/or practice medicine. B. M. Hegde, like Deepak Chopra appears to be

Re: [Goanet] Christians of Indian origin who live in Pakistan will now be entitled to long term visas to India,

2011-09-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
Marshall Mendonza wrote: My post consisted of two reference points- 1. denial of long term visas to Christians of Pakistan. 2. denial of benefits to dalits of christianity and islam Anybody who has read all other posts in this thread (i.e. in the thread entitled Christians of Indian

Re: [Goanet] Anatomy and Physiology of the Immune System, Part 2 -- Natural Health Newsletter

2011-09-06 Thread Santosh Helekar
If someone wants to read about the immune system, and drugs that modulate it, please consult a real immunology textbook or a genuine medical website such as that of the U. S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases below:

Re: [Goanet] Christians of Indian origin who live in Pakistan will now be entitled to long term visas to India,

2011-09-07 Thread Santosh Helekar
I would kindly request Marshall not to continue to use political smears against me, just because I corrected the erroneous information he had posted on Goanet regarding the recent change in visa rules. Also, as alluded to before, I hope someone with the right background and expertise would

Re: [Goanet] Christians of Indian origin who live in Pakistan will now be entitled to long term visas to India

2011-09-07 Thread Santosh Helekar
Once again, I would like to kindly request Marshall not to resort to personal insults against me just because I corrected his misleading statements on the visa issue. As far as engaging in a healthy debate on the subject of this thread is concerned, I would be happy to respond in a sincere and

Re: [Goanet] Through The Wormhole: Is there a Sixth Sense? | Watch Free Documentary Online

2011-09-14 Thread Santosh Helekar
Pursuant to what Mr. Nunes has written, going through the documentary list I can see that, like the other links provided here by Con and others before him, much of it has nothing to do with real knowledge. Indeed, the list contains almost every conspiracy theory, and ancient and modern myth,

Re: [Goanet] CRS report - a disturbance or pleasing?

2011-09-14 Thread Santosh Helekar
Please read the Congressional Research Service report at this link to check the accuracy of the characterizations about and claims in this Times of India news item: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33529.pdf Cheers, Santosh --- On Wed, 9/14/11, U. G. Barad dr.udayba...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Goanet] CRS report - a disturbance or pleasing?

2011-09-17 Thread Santosh Helekar
Here are the inaccurate statements in the Times of India (TOI) news item at http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-14/india/30153707_1_prime-ministerial-candidate-narendra-modi-rahul-gandhi : QUOTE As the debate on potential prime ministerial contenders for the 2014 elections

Re: [Goanet] Of prejudgement, judgement and modus operandi

2011-02-16 Thread Santosh Helekar
elisabeth_...@yahoo.com: Sometime in December Santosh Helekar stood on his podium and wrote this: Prejudice by definition is a holier than thou judgment. Indeed, it is worse than a judgment. It is a prejudgment based on a belief in the superiority of one's own perceptions, anecdotal experiences

[Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?

2011-02-17 Thread Santosh Helekar
Gabriel de Figueiredo gdefigueiredo at yahoo.com.au wrote: And yet, India follows the British colonial system of rule (guilty unless proven innocent), and English is the lingua franca. Gabriel is mistaken. India's judicial system practices the principle of innocent until proven guilty. It was

Re: [Goanet] A country of paradoxes

2011-02-17 Thread Santosh Helekar
I can understand the point here that there is a huge difference between the rich and the poor in India, and that this difference has increased over the last decade or so, as the rich have become richer and many poor people have entered the middle class. But I don't understand the rest of the

Re: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?

2011-02-17 Thread Santosh Helekar
To ascertain the accuracy of what I have stated in respect of the current Indian and pre-1961 Portuguese criminal justice systems, please read the legal treatise entitled Criminal Justice India Series: Goa, 2002 written by D. Banerjea of the West Bengal National University of Juridical

Re: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?

2011-02-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
I am puzzled by this post of Jose, particularly the claim of Goan judges before 1961 who would be offended by my statement of facts that I have read in a scholarly book on law, and quoted here. Would the Indian and British judges also be offended by what Gabriel has stated? All I need is a quote

Re: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?That

2011-02-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
=book_resultct=resultresnum=2ved=0CBkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepageq=great%20goan%20judgesf=false http://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg06119.html - Original Message From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com To: estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent

[Goanet] Indian Goans

2011-02-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
The poll was conducted by the election authorities. The non-Indian Goa Su-Raj party most likely lost its deposit. Only Indian parties won seats. Most Goans living in Goa today like to call themselves Indian. They are genetically closest to Indians from the neighboring states. Many of them leave

Re: [Goanet] Cooking with Coconut Oil - good for your health

2011-02-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
Please see the following information from Quack Watch regarding irresponsible claims contained in the post appended below: http://www.quackwatch.com/11Ind/mercola.html Cheers, Santosh --- On Sat, 2/19/11, Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com wrote: Cooking with Coconut Oil - good for

Re: [Goanet] Indian Goans

2011-02-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
The number of Goans living in Goa who claim not to be Indians is negligible. Nobody takes them seriously. For example, only one resident Goan with Goan ancestry has so far claimed to be non-Indian on Goanet. His name is Floriano Lobo. His non-Indian political party has virtually no supporters

[Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
I have already explained why the claims involving the AB blood type and haploid karyotype (one set of 23 chromosomes) in a human being do not pass the laugh test in science. I am happy that other Goanetters, including Albert appear to have understood the basic scientific explanations provided

Re: [Goanet] Cooking with Coconut Oil - good for your health

2011-02-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
There are many multi-level marketing scams involving the so-called virgin coconut oil and other products mentioned in the post appended below. Please do not fall for their false publicity consisting mainly of testimonials. Cheers, Santosh --- On Tue, 2/22/11, floriano floriano.l...@gmail.com

Re: [Goanet] Cooking with Coconut Oil - good for your health

2011-02-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
I would ask people not to trust what is written on unreliable political activist websites promoting wild claims and conspiracies, such as those provided in the following posts. Please refer only to information provided by responsible public health organizations such as WHO. Here is what WHO

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
I would like to correct the mistakes and false statements made in the post appended below. Goanet does not allow attachments. I do not want to upload the scanned paper in the public domain and provide a link to it for copyright reasons. I have emailed the paper to Ferdinando. My email has not

Re: [Goanet] Cooking with Coconut Oil - good for your health.

2011-02-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
I would like to correct all the mistakes in the posts appended below. HIV and cancer are not free radicals. Free radicals are atoms or molecules with an unpaired electron, and usually containing a highly reactive oxygen atom. Cancer is not a virus. There is no evidence that the fatty acid

Re: [Goanet] Indian Goans

2011-02-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
There are many books on Indian Christianity, the syncretic merging of the Christian faith with the Indian spiritual traditions of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. For example, here is one institution, the Sadhana Institute in Lonavala, established by the late Fr. Anthony de Mello, that promotes

Re: [Goanet] How to get rid of Corruption

2011-02-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 2/20/11, Bosco D bos...@canada.com wrote: RESPONSE: Where does it leave the supposed 14 scientific surveys of thousands of people in India?? Are those surveys anymore scientific than the 6 friends that Rajendra spoke to on Dec 27, 2010 [1]?? Perhaps I am missing something here.

Re: [Goanet] Cooking with Coconut Oil - good for your health.

2011-02-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
Barad, I do not believe in conspiracy theories. Please state your claims clearly, and post scientific evidence from the peer-reviewed medical literature to back it up. Then I will be happy to debate you, if necessary. Cheers, Santosh --- On Sun, 2/20/11, U. G. Barad dr.udayba...@gmail.com

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
Mervyn, I try to stick to sharing factual information with people who are, or want to be, scientifically literate. The rest are free to believe whatever they want to believe. I have already explained why the combined claims of AB blood group and half the number of chromosomes, namely 23,

Re: [Goanet] Indian Goans

2011-02-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
It is true that Indian Goans feel safer in their motherland, India, than in China, because of lack of individual freedom in the Chinese totalitarian communist regime, and the many personal restrictions such as the one-child mandate, leading to an increase in forced abortions and female

Re: [Goanet] Cooking with Coconut Oil - good for your health

2011-02-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
Barad, Here are responses to your requests: --- On Tue, 2/22/11, U. G. Barad dr.udayba...@gmail.com wrote: Define Conspiracy theories and also let me know which references you believe in i.e. which according to you are honest, trustworthy medical literatures? A conspiracy theory is a

Re: [Goanet] A country of paradoxes

2011-02-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 2/22/11, Marshall Mendonza mmendonz...@gmail.com wrote: It is a measure of their situation that the poor adivasis who are exploited are condemned as maoists when they fight back unable to tolerate injustice any longer, but the criminals in uniform who can kill, maim and torture

Re: [Goanet] How to get rid of Corruption

2011-02-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 2/22/11, Bosco D bos...@canada.com wrote: RESPONSE: Nah!! Rajendra's 6 friends living in Goa can assess corruption better than Transparency International (TI) because unlike TI they do not apply a 'Corruptions Perceptions Index'. They live in Goa/India and have to endure and

Re: [Goanet] A Country of Paradoxes

2011-02-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
I was waiting to see if Marshall was willing to admit that Maoists were also criminals. But I guess not. It is all about one-sided ideological justice. They recognize criminality only on one side, not their own. How can you trust these guys to write anything that is impartial? As far as the

Re: [Goanet] Cooking with Coconut Oil - good for your health

2011-02-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 2/23/11, U. G. Barad dr.udayba...@gmail.com wrote: Please state your claims clearly, and post scientific evidence from the peer-reviewed medical literature to back YOUR claimS. My claim is that the following statement has reasonably good evidence to back it up: A change of 1 unit

Re: [Goanet] A country of paradoxes

2011-02-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
Here is more incredible insight from the Goanet moderator in support of his credibility and lack of bias: My quote: In 2010 alone, the Maoists killed a total of 526 innocent civilians and security personnel. Response from Bosco: I am wondering whether the above comment is implicitly or explicity

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
, and all Goan fools. Einstein lived in the 19th and 20th century, not the 18th century. Cheers, Santosh --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão drferdina...@hotmail.com wrote: Santosh Helekar chimbelcho at yahoo.com wrote : ……. 1- I do not want to upload the scanned paper

Re: [Goanet] Countering magical thinking

2011-02-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
In this post I would like to correct all the blunders made by Ferdinando in his latest post appended below with respect to fair use of copyrighted material, publication in scientific journals, appearance of published medical scientific articles in the pubmed/medline databases, the difference

Re: [Goanet] Copyright Law

2011-02-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
What? I thought Bosco had told us that Goanet was a better research forum than Transparency International with Gulf-trained experts such as Ferdinando and his 6 friends who want to tell the nurses who thought they were mediocre that they have achieved more than the peons. Cheers, Santosh

Re: [Goanet] Goan Teachers

2011-03-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
Being good at research and teaching are not mutually exclusive. In today's world to be successful in research, especially scientific research one has to have great communication, leadership and interpersonal skills. Most cutting edge research today is done collaboratively across institutions

Re: [Goanet] Goan Teachers

2011-03-06 Thread Santosh Helekar
the scientist has made such a super case for it. Cheers, Roland. On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com wrote: Being good at research and teaching are not mutually exclusive. In today's world to be successful in research, especially scientific research one

Re: [Goanet] Holistic Medicine

2011-03-06 Thread Santosh Helekar
It is not very clear as to what kind of medicine is being promoted in the Goanet post and Huffington Post article appended below. The Free Dictionary definition is not exactly helpful. In fact, it is rather strange for a medical professional to consult a dictionary or the Huffington Post as

Re: [Goanet] Goan Teachers

2011-03-07 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 3/6/11, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão drferdina...@hotmail.com wrote: The basic qualities a good teacher needs is sympathy, understanding, patience and to lead through example. These are essential qualities of a good manager of people. In fact, they are the universally

Re: [Goanet] Florida Court sets atheist Holy day (you gotta read love this judge)

2011-03-08 Thread Santosh Helekar
This is an urban legend. Please see the following Snopes warning: http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/atheist.asp Please do not forward this type of bogus chain letters through Goanet again. Cheers, Santosh --- On Tue, 3/8/11, Gina Fernandes fg...@rocketmail.com wrote: This is

Re: [Goanet] Debunking Popular Fat Myths

2011-03-12 Thread Santosh Helekar
Instead of learning medicine, and seeking medical and nutritional advice, from a Food Writer on a political propaganda website named Huffington Post, I would suggest that Goanetters would be better served by reading information provided by real medical and public health institutions. Here is

Re: [Goanet] Philosophy, not Science

2011-03-13 Thread Santosh Helekar
I know that when I have not been able to persuade someone to limit the usage and scope of the word Science to its conventional connotation, I may not have much hope of bringing clarity to what is meant by such things as disagreements, counterpoints, opinions and corrections in any academic

Re: [Goanet] Philosophy, not Science

2011-03-14 Thread Santosh Helekar
How can I convince someone that the observation that our world is an oblate spheroid is an indisputable fact? How can I be honest and compassionate in saying to someone who insists that it is flat that that too is true? Cheers, Santosh --- On Sun, 3/13/11, Charudatt Prabhudesai

Re: [Goanet] Philosophy, not Science

2011-03-15 Thread Santosh Helekar
1. Physical consciousness or the normal waking state is just one of the states of consciousness, not the ONLY state. Charudatt Prabhudesai 2. The laws governing this sphere are laws of physics Charudatt Prabhudesai Statement 1 is acceptable as a scientific fact. Statement 2 is

[Goanet] Holistic Medicine by Pandurang - Part 1

2011-03-17 Thread Santosh Helekar
In his retirement from public life President Pandurang has decided to be an alternative public servant by doing all kinds of alternative things, like practicing alternative medicine, using alternative energy, writing alternative history, living an alternative lifestyle, and finding alternatives

Re: [Goanet] Copyright Law

2011-03-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
To those who might not understand why Falcao is twisting his calsao by talking and walking in circles below, I would like to explain his problem. He challenged me to provide a copy of an article that I had mentioned on Goanet. After I happily sent him that copy as an email attachment, he

Re: [Goanet] Holistic Medicine by Pandurang - Part 2

2011-03-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
In this circular I will tell you what means Holistic Medicine. People will tell you many things. They will give you sermao that this medicine is the same thing like allopathic medicine. Don’t hear their anything. Say aan and keep quiet. You see what I am saying? Holistic Medicine means not

Re: [Goanet] Holistic Medicine by Tucarama from Brazil

2011-03-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
Since I forwarded the Part 1 and 2 circulars from Dr. Forsu d. R. Popot and Pres. Pandurang Fernandes, respectively, let me tell you that Dr. Popot has knowledge of both English and Science. He has read about Holistic Medicine in all dictionaries. We know that he passed out at a recognized

Re: [Goanet] Holistic Medicine

2011-03-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
Good to know that Gilbert is practicing conventional modern medicine, despite forwarding quack articles from Huffington post. Please see how the word holistic has been used by quacks to sell their nostrums and fool the public: http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2006/08/quack-word-37-holistic.html

Re: [Goanet] Holistic Medicine

2011-03-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
I had always thought that the least that education can do quite successfully is to teach people to recognize what is real and what is fake, so as not to be easily fooled by charlatans. My experience on Goanet and elsewhere has unfortunately taught me that this is not true at all. When it comes

Re: [Goanet] The crass Indians

2011-04-05 Thread Santosh Helekar
Stereotyping and generalization never contributes anything to any discussion. I noticed that the behavior of WWF fans was not generalized to the rest of the Americans, and the brawling British soccer fans were conveniently ignored in the article. Cheers, Santosh --- On Tue, 4/5/11, Rajan P.

Re: [Goanet] Lies in Medical Publications

2011-04-11 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 4/10/11, Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com wrote: Quote: Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do. This appears to imply that the person who criticizes, condemns and complains about mainstream medical publications on Goanet is a fool. A person who

Re: [Goanet] Lies in Medical Publications

2011-04-13 Thread Santosh Helekar
I would like to correct the inconsistencies, errors and lack of understanding about mainstream medical research contained in the post appended below. If as claimed in this thread that anybody who criticizes a post or article is a fool then surely this would be true of the author of the post

[Goanet] Why doctors become quacks

2011-04-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
Quackery is at least as big a problem in the world as medical malpractice. Lately, health authorities in several countries such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Uganda have decided to crack down on quacks. A most disturbing new phenomenon on this issue - indeed a New Age phenomenon - is the

Re: [Goanet] Why doctors become quacks

2011-04-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
Please note that the author of the post appended below has felt the need to launch a defamatory attack against Dr. Stephen Barrett, a well known and well respected physician in the international medical community, relying as usual on libelous bogus information posted against Dr. Barrett on

Re: [Goanet] Re : Why doctors become quacks

2011-04-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 4/19/11, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão drferdina...@hotmail.com wrote: I am responding this for the benefit of those Goanetters who may be interested in knowing the truth. Truth? This must be some kind of a joke. First of all, the above poster is continuing to gratuitously

[Goanet] Fooled by false information on the internet

2011-04-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
There are some people here who are easily fooled by bogus information that they find on the internet. They in turn deceive other people, for example, by spreading stupid baseless health scares and causing harm to the reputation of others. Here are two articles that describe the problem of false

Re: [Goanet] Why doctors become quacks

2011-04-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 4/19/11, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão drferdina...@hotmail.com wrote: I am responding this for the benefit of those Goanetters who may be interested in knowing the truth. Truth? This must be some kind of a joke. First of all, the above poster is continuing to gratuitously

Re: [Goanet] Medical errors a big killer

2011-04-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
While the numbers cited below have been shown not to be accurate, errors committed by doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals because of incompetence, ignorance or basic human limitations such as tiredness, overwork and sleepiness, are a major problem. Deaths caused by the

Re: [Goanet] Medical errors a big killer

2011-04-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
The actual numbers are not known. But the numbers provided by Times of India are based on an outdated extrapolation and speculation that was later shown to be inaccurate, at least as far as the U.S. is concerned. The scholarly paper that refuted the outdated estimates is entitled How Many

Re: [Goanet] Medical errors a big killer

2011-04-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
I am not sure what is being said in the post appended below. The fact is that there are many research papers in JAMA and elsewhere that support the statement in the journal Effective Clinical Practice that the numbers reported in Times of India are not accurate. Here is one such paper from JAMA

Re: [Goanet] Medical errors a big killer

2011-04-26 Thread Santosh Helekar
I have already pointed out that it is precisely the outdated numbers rehashed over and over again in the links provided in the post appended below that have be shown to be inaccurate in many subsequent research articles in JAMA and other prestigious medical journals. I have already provided

Re: [Goanet] US body puts India under 'Watch List' on religious freedom

2011-04-30 Thread Santosh Helekar
I noticed that the date on the story posted below is August 13, 2009. I wonder why this story was posted today after nearly 2 years. The USCIRF has just released this year's annual report. While India has been under scrutiny since the formation of USCIRF in 1998 because of religious riots that

Re: [Goanet] Goans who acquired Portuguese Passports are not Goans and should not be allowed to Goa anymore

2011-04-30 Thread Santosh Helekar
Real Goan freedom fighters sacrificed their lives, including their own freedom for Goa's freedom from the Portuguese. Without their sacrifice India would not have conquered Goa. They also fought hard to prevent the merger of Goa with Maharashtra, and for the recognition of Konknni as a distinct

[Goanet] Konkani before 1961

2011-04-30 Thread Santosh Helekar
There were several Konkani books published much before 1961. The word Konkani, as opposed to Concani was in use since at least 1882 or 1883 when Fr. Maffei published a Konkani-English dictionary and a book on Konkani grammar in Mangalore. The Konkani Bhasha Mandal was founded in Bombay in 1935.

Re: [Goanet] Konkani before 1961

2011-05-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
On 1 May 2011 Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: Konkani is another spelling for Concani or more accurately Concanim (the former probably used more in English usage, and the latter more in Portugese). The word Concanim is no more accurate than the word Concani, as far as

Re: [Goanet] Diabetes

2011-05-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
Please do not rely on medical information provided by people who are not trained in scientific medicine. On diabetes, please consult only reliable medical websites such as that of Mayo Clinic below: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/diabetes/DS01121/METHOD=print The fact that the source

Re: [Goanet] Conspiracy theorists....

2011-05-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 5/3/11, Gabe Menezes gabe.mene...@gmail.com wrote: Do we have the same, sometimes here on this forum? The answer is yes. I have pointed this out on several occasions. All one has to do is go through the archives. Cheers, Santosh --- On Tue, 5/3/11, Gabe Menezes

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