I find it distasteful that well-informed comments are dismissed as "speculation" -- at a certain point "speculation" becomes hypothesis, though not all of us have opportunity to follow through with our hypotheses -- and I also find it irritating, patronizing, and wrongheaded for a list member (Nancy) to be asked whether or not she had read all the citations for a particular link she provided.
It would be fine for another list member simply to point out the alleged discrepancies between the citations and the article if the critic has time to do so, but perhaps the comments might better be directed to the authors of the article rather than the person posting the link. Moreover, if we are going to be thorough, we would have to follow thorough with a complete explanation of the variances between the article and the citations, now wouldn't we? I am quite eager to see a full essay on this as soon as possible. With references. And with all references within those references explicated, please. Perhaps the whole problem here is simply due to the difficulty of indicating tone through e-mail messages, but several messages here recently strke me as very condescending and irritating indeed, though many other postings have been quite useful and informative. I concede that the ad-hominem comment was not appropriate and regret it, but the term properly describes the tone I detect in several recent postings. C Creel wrote: > > Jonathan, > > You said: > > <<Please keep on posting and ignore the school-marmish comments you might > receive. No one has time to check every citation, >> > > If being thorough is "school-marmish" in your book, I'll take the label > you intended as an insult and wear it proudly. > But, I find it more than a little distasteful that when unable to counter > with an informed response, you (and a handful of others) will resort to > ad hominem attacks. > > Catherine > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
