Back in Ontario, we met with an ex-university science prof who had
retired and become a violin repair person. Long story on the fiddle.
Any way...we first met the ex-scientist because his wife heard that I
knew of someone who distributed good quality magnetic sleep pads. His
scientific mind was */con/*-vinced of their merit because of positive
results for both himself and his wife, but damned if he knew why. The
person selling them was a retired nurse who had spent too much time in
the cancer ward, watching people die quickly and painfully from
radiation and chemotherapy. She decided to dedicate her life to
alternative treatments for health, especially around cancer treatments.
Some seemed to have had life extending results. Others, dubious, but
well intended on her part, thus possibly inspiring necessary belief for
effectiveness. Of course, skeptics will always come up with loss of
life, sad stories around alternative therapies, but I think the movement
towards natural remedies speaks to peoples' desire to take greater
charge of their health, and to extend a little bit more will to work
with the body than in previous years of total dependency upon an
allopathic physician and Pharma's often deadly fare.Hence, the greater
push for choice in coverage globally.
*Natalia*
Ray Harrell wrote:
There are many companies out there marketing water products that are
used by health clubs and athletes. I recently spoke to someone who
had a chronic health problem that has gotten better with these
products. He's a scientist himself and is bemused by the fact that
he can't figure out why. But he would rather get better than be
right. It's often that way around healing. For years FM Alexander
was made fun of until Konrad Lorenz made him a part of his Nobel
speech. Then suddenly everyone was wanting to do Alexander
lessons. Good thing. They work. Of course they never took on
Moshe Feldenkrais. He was a fierce physicist and designed the
Israeli tank and he developed these nervous system exercises that
retrain the body and mind to better more efficient psycho-physical
patterning. The world is so wonderful. So much bigger than
culture driven "science." I take my Isagenix vitamins daily with my
Isa-water and I too feel better. Damned if I know why!
REH
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That's mighty quick of you to interpret for Chris. I wanted to hear
from him first, to see if he was going to go elsewhere with it, but
he, too, disappointed me. I was hoping for an Al Gore kind of
exploitation story.
If Emoto is delusional, or a con, like I said to Chris, it's hardly
the lie that Pharma wants us to swallow about toxins being a part of
everyone's daily requirements. Emoto's 8 ounces of geometrically
perfect water I likely won't die from. Have you personally verified
its ineffectiveness?
It does appear suspicious, and I would never be looking to buy his
products, of which I was unaware, but part of a good education is
having skeptics and true scientists like yourself immediately bring to
light the ill-intended because of your strong need to stay skeptical,
so that I myself can be wary. I'm not conceding that because a=b often
translates to a fact that a always = b.
Allopathic placebo medicine is renowned for its ability to improve
quality of both brain function and physical well being. It's efficacy
rate can reach as high as 50% or more in double blind studies. We can
conclude that a lot of medicine, allopathic (which rarely proves to be
scientifically developed) or otherwise, can boil down to a huge con,
too. Of mind over matter! Do you ever wonder how much of that Pharma
medicine you may have consumed yourself, Mike?
*Natalia
*Mike Spencer wrote:
Have you heard of Dr. Masaru Emoto? He wrote three volumes of books, the
first called /The Hidden Mesages of Water. /I'll sum it up for you.
Water responds to music and to thought. Google it.
What are you trying to say with this bit:
/Suggesting that water is alive, as Parry did, is esoterical nonsense.
That's how Predators hijack science./
Dr. Emoto sells products based on his claims. For example, the
products page of Emoto's Hado website is currently offering
"geometrically perfect" "Indigo water" that is "highly charged
hexagonally structured concentrate," and supposedly creates
"structured water" that is "more easily assimilated at the
cellular level" for $35 for an eight-ounce bottle.
Chris is saying that anyone who belives that is a classic specimen of
Sucker for Pseudoscience and that the Professional Bad Guys are happy
to exploit such gullibility and ignorance.
Here's another one:
http://www.slimspurling.com/
I know about this only because I met Slim Spurling (now deceased) back
in '76 when he was a blacksmith. Good smith, good teacher, cool guy
but believed all kinds pseudoscientific crap. Eventually he
discovered that he could make good living with gullibility and
pseudoscientific mysticism and gave up smithing.
- Mike
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