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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: rec.food.veg
- Subject: Re: So-Called Vitamin D (olddate) [rebuttal from August]
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.170108.10945@spdcc.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:01:08 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov17.170108.10945
- References: <altar.721931796@sfu.ca> <1992Nov16.205751.23866@pixel.kodak.com> <11081@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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- In article <11081@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
- >Rich, please READ articles before you repost them under your name.
- >Steve Dyer's analysis of Ted's production of Moon's article is very
- >poor, and simply makes him (Steve) look stuborn, as all he does is say
- >"No, that's not right", "Sure Teddy", and the like.
-
- Do you have a habit of skipping 99% of an article? You should focus
- on the important stuff.
-
- The stuff of my disagreement with Ted's tract is elementary science.
- The misunderstandings are basic and fundamental. Ted is ignorant of
- chemistry, biochemistry and metabolism, yet he imagines himself able
- to read scientific papers and come up with a meaningful synthesis of
- them. What he comes up with is a hodgepodge of half-truths and mis-
- understandings, howlers, actually, which he serves up enthusiastically
- to people on rec.food.veg, many of whom aren't familiar enough with
- the science to recognize hogwash when they're served it.
-
- >I'd much prefer your usually well documented analyses.
-
- The documentation is available to anyone who can read. This is all
- basic science. People who can't tell the difference between Vitamin D
- and an anabolic steroid, and who use the word "steroid" as a bogeyman
- have no business trying to lecture an audience on vitamin D and
- calcium metabolism.
-
- >(That's why Steve is mounted in my kill file,
- >while you roam around in the wild)
-
- Well, he did you a favor by having you look at it again.
- Maybe it will sink in. Of course, I made the same objections
- to Ted's assertions last March, and it made no difference to him.
- "Don't confuse me with facts, I've made up my mind."
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
-