The post appended below propagates a falsehood about me. It is falsely claimed that the following quote is my verbiage, and not Gilbert's:
"Thus the grandmother's observation was accurate." The truth is that this quote comes directly from the following post of Gilbert: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2006-September/048340.html Here is the relevant paragraph that contains this quote: "A few years ago, an experiment was undertaken where a batch of mice were injected with an identical quantity (volume) of aggressive cancer cells. As expected the mice developed multiple tumors (metastasis) in the lung. Half the mice were then operated to remove tumors from just one lung. The other half of the batch of mice did not undergo any surgery. The mice were then followed. The mice with their tumor (partly) removed died much earlier than the group where the tumors in both lungs were allowed to grow uninterrupted. Thus the grandmother's observation was accurate." .....................Gilbert Lawrence Once again, I ask people not to be misled by someone else's mischaracterizations of my writings. Cheers, Santosh --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Specifically, in your post you wrote: > > > "In the very next line, following the description of > the mice study/experiment we are further > informed(quote)Thus the grandmother's observation > was > accurate.(end of quote)" > > > This was not an interpretation; you were quoting > Gilbert, unfortunately with a quote HE had not made, > but using verbage from one of Santosh's posts. > > > Anyone who reads Gilbert's original post would know > this. > > > From, > http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2006-September/048340.html > > > > The actual quote after the mice experiment is as > follows: > > > "So "old grand-mothers' tales" are not to be ignored > except at our own peril!" > _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
