Jonathan B Britten wrote: "All the same, I have gotten so much useful info. and so many good links that I think Quackwatch deserves at least grudging respect as a source of information, along with the disinformation. Formats such as this one can help us to distinguish between the two."
Quite so, sir. Without firsthand knowledge the only way to ascertain truth on this kind of issue is to listen to all sides and hopefully enough good info will come forth to provide something approximating a "self-evident" resolution. Doesn't pay to label anyone entirely right or wrong. Kevin Nolan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan B. Britten" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 11:55 AM Subject: Re: CS>Cancer: cause and cure > List, > > > I find some useful info. and links on Quackwatch, but the flaws and > biases are just grotesque. Among other outrages, you can find a > listing of Omura's brilliant, patented Bi-Digital O-Ring Test as an > "unnatural method," and a wholesale dismissal of the German-made > EAV-type diagnotstic machines and methodology. > > A review of one such machine is illustrative: the reviewer had no > operating manual and had no idea of how the machine was supposed to be > used; the reviewer mistakenly believed that a glass vial -- containing > nothing -- was supposed to cause a deflection in the ohm-meter on the > machine, and suggested the failure of an empty glass vial to do so > indicated the falseness of the entire concept. > > This is just awful. An essentialpart of EAV diagnosis is based on > molecular (or sub-molecular) resonance. No one has ever claimed that > an empty glass vial would produce changes in an EAV or Vegatest reading. > I know only a very little about this field, but I can certainly > recognize grotesque bias and unfairness when I see it. Quackwatch > certainly demonstrated a very wrongheaded, misleading, and inaccurate > approach to EAV. > > Read Barret's final words in this section of the website to understand > his prejudice: he says that anyone who uses such methods is either > deluded or incompetent or criminal, and urges readers to report anyone > who uses such devices to him and to other agencies that can carry out > criminal prosecution. Barrett seems to want to be expert, judge, > prosecutor, and jury all at the same time. I was really disturbed by > this bullying and antagnoistic approach. > > All the same, I have gotten so much useful info. and so many good links > that I think Quackwatch deserves at least grudging respect as a source > of information, along with the disinformation. Formats such as this > one can help us to distinguish between the two. > > JBB -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
