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- From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Grasshopper doesn't think so (was: Ancient Methods of Birth Control)
- Summary: More traditional crap.
- Message-ID: <15bqd9INNmfl@cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 1992 16:40:09 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.230858.277@s1.gov>
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- Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
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- In article <2306@tivoli.UUCP> dfavor@logan.tivoli.com (David Favor) writes:
- > ... consider the implications of providing masses of oxygen to
- > every part of the body. ...
-
- Sounds harmful to me. Beyond what is used for metabolism, oxygen
- is harmful to tissues.
-
- > ... maybe some of the stories of long lived masters of these
- > Internal Arts are correct... there is only one way to find out.
- > practice these arts for yourself and deterimine their usefulness.
-
- Of all the ways one might investigate these issues, the one
- recommended above is practially useless for determining the
- truth of the purported theories. One would better say that
- there is one sure way *not* to find out: "practice these arts
- for yourself" and extrapolate from your own, subjective sense
- of the results.
-
- Russell
-