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- From: phoffman@orac.holonet.net (Paul E. Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: War cry of the scientific
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:16:20 GMT
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- In misc.health.alternative you write:
- >I wondered how long it would take before someone would post this
- >comment here. Scientific discussion is supposed to be welcomed here, I
- >have mail (and copies of articles posted to news.groups by yourself)
- >assuring me that scientific criticism would be welcome and encouraged
- >in misc.health.alternatives. I suggest that you should be encouraging
- >posts like Schumachers.
-
-
- It doesn't seem like he needs any encouraging :-).
-
- Further, he is not making any scientific criticisms: he's damning everything
- that is "alternative" with a single shot. When I learned about science, that
- form of criticisim wasn't encouraged...
-
- I hereby encourage the following types of posting:
- "JKL Therapy for STU??!? That doesn't work! A scientfic study by the
- University of ABC showed that the placebo was equally as effective.
- The citation is zzzzz."
-
- I also encourage:
- "I doubt that will work. JKL Therapy has only been shown to work for
- GHI syndrome."
-
- I specifically discourage:
- "If Jim NMOP says so, it must be false because he's always wrong."
-
- >>Paul Hoffman
-
- --
- || Why quote someone else? ||
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