Hi Terry, I second your post. I found Jon and his site when he bought a PWT meter from us and we had a short discussion about CS. It was shortly after that when he posted the article about using homemade CS on his site.
He started the Health Co Op http://www.ourhealthcoop.com/products.htm and provided low cost, high quality vitamins and minerals to the general public. I can't see that he was making a killing. Instead, he was doing a service to the general public by offering us a place to buy what we needed at reasonable prices. It is now owned by another person that is carrying on the concept started by Jon. As you say, he may be a con artist but I certainly haven't been conned out of any money. I still buy from the Health Co Op he founded and still get tremendous savings. Flamboyant, yes. Conning for money, not that I can see! Let's not cast stones too quickly. Trem www.silvergen.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Chamberlin" <tcj...@yahoo.ca> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:24 AM Subject: [silver_list] CS>Dr. Jon Brooks > I went to Jon Brooks website - http://www.cat007.com > and explored it thoroughly. Nowhere did I find any > claims that he was a medical doctor. If he got a "Dr." > in another field, or even through a mail-order course, > I don't know. > > But the article villifying him by Chet Day used > techniques similar to those by Stephen Barret or any > other anti-holistic writer. > > Much of what is on Brooks site is, in my opinion, > legitimate. Although he uses marketing techniques I > would not feel comfortable using - flamboyant phrases, > over-stating benefits, lots of exclamation points - > this does not, in my opinion, invalidate everything he > says and does, nor does it define him as a con-artist, > bent on rooking his victims. > > Some of the claims made by folks on this list > concerning CS sound sometimes like what Jon Brooks > claims. I have made some of these claims myself > (Overnight Recoveries! Amazing Disappearing > Infections! Dying Pets Becoming Frisky!) Hey, we have > actually experienced these kind of things. Why do we > go out of our way to look for bad in others? > > Yes, in fact, "Dr." Jon Brooks may not be all that he > appears. I don't know. But until I do know, from > evidence, not slander, I find much on his site that is > valid and beneficial to others. The fact that the IRS > and Federal marshals stormed his house is actually a > point in his favor - in my opinion - not evidence of > his rascalness. Great Scott, don't we all know of very > genuine heroes of the holistic world who have had the > same thing happen to them? Didn't Hulda Clark have > something like that happen to her? Hey, maybe Jon > Brooks has more going for him than we realize, if he > is being attacked by "the powers that be" like that? > > Anyway, my concern is about how quickly and easily we > form an opinion about others based on, essentially, > hearsay. Yes, Jon Brooks may be an outright crook, a > con-artist supreme, but I have not seen enough to > bring me to that conclusion. > > That's my whole two cents on this topic. > > Terry Chamberlin > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > >
