Heres my letter to Peter Bowditch, owner of http://www.ratbags.com/
rsoles/index.html (Yet another site that rates well because it
claims that just about everything is a scam).
David
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Hello Peter
Why do you call Colloidal Silver a fraud? What's your basis for such
a claim?
It's accepted that many minerals (including metals) are essential for
good health. Why then do you find it so inconceivable that small
quantities of silver might not provide support for the immune
system? The fact that silver kills germs 'in-vitro' and topically
has been so conclusively proven that not even 'Quackwatch' disputes
it. Its no great leap then to speculate that it might do the same
thing inside the human body. In fact it would perhaps be more
surprising if it didn't! But in fact, no theorising is necessary
because hundreds of thousands of users have proven for themselves
that it really does work in practice. Are we all self-deluded victims
of a hoax or scam?
Perhaps you think colloidal silver is homeopathic. That's certainly
not the case. The fact that there is electrolytically dissolved
silver in a glass of colloidal silver is easily proven and measured
using the most basic tests and instruments.
Perhaps you think that ingesting silver is a life threatening gamble
with a toxic heavy metal. There's absolutely no evidence for that
either. Both the US Agency for Toxic Substances and the US EPA have
given silver a clean bill of health in that regard. No amount of
silver ingestion has ever killed anyone.
Perhaps you think most drinkers of colloidal silver are desperate,
terminally ill patients who aren't thinking straight and are prepared
to try anything to stay alive. But no thats not true either. Most
colloidal silver users are perfectly ordinary and healthy people who
buy or make their own colloidal silver (for a few cents) simply to
ward off coughs and colds.
Perhaps you believe that colloidal silver will turn you blue? If the
Rosemary Jacobs case is the foundation of your belief then think
again. Rosemary Jacobs never drank colloidal silver in her life. Her
argyria surfaced over 50 years ago after taking silver nitrate nose
drops daily for 3 or 4 years. (It's all on her site). I'll agree
that Argyria is an issue that needs to be considered when taking
colloidal silver, but it's easily avoided, and in spite of the claims
of sites such as Quackwatch, it's extremely rare.
So what's left as evidence for your claim that colloidal silver is a
fraud? I'd really like to know.
Regards
David O'Neil
http://www.colloidalsilver.com.au/
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