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- From: kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski)
- Subject: Re: Appropriate treatment (was: War on cancer a failure???)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.065817.22073@netcom.com>
- Organization: The Information Deli - via Netcom / San Jose, California
- References: <1cmm71INN49t@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> <1992Oct31.092606.23390@netcom.com> <17302@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 06:58:17 GMT
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- In <17302@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
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- >In article <1992Oct31.092606.23390@netcom.com> kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski) writes:
- >>Or is the population sampling you've done on Usenet and at malls and
- >>parties the best evidence you've got?
-
- >That's right. The doctors here on the net are a pretty perverse group.
- >Think of the hours they waste here that could be productively spent
- >robbing people blind with allopathic medical hokum.
-
- Actually, the "population sampling" I was asking Russell about was for
- alternative practitioners, not doctors.
-
- But I have thought about the long hours the doctors put in here --
- it's one of the primary reasons I'm wasting *my* time in news.groups
- putting together misc.health.alternative. I'd like to see the doctors
- here productively discussing science and medicine, instead of wading
- hip-deep through alternative health hokum.
-
- You make an implicit either-or assumption when you sarcastically say
- doctors could be "robbing people blind with allopathic medical hokum",
- as if I must believe medical science to be quackery if I believe in
- alternative health.
-
- Medical science as I've seen it practiced has its limitations and
- shortcomings -- but it has tremendous strengths as well. It's
- certainly *not* quackery.
-
- --
- Peter Kaminski
- kaminski@netcom.com
-