I just want to let you know that reading a newspaper article or any crap written by somebody on the internet is not research. Falcao does not know this because he is not a scientist or academic, and is not familiar with real research of any kind. Research, especially original scientific research is published in peer-reviewed journals. These journals are today accessible through the internet. They are usually password protected, and therefore can only be accessed by people who have a subscription to them, or who are members of a university library because of their academic affiliation. In my case, I have access through both means because I am a professional medical neuroscientist affiliated with a medical research institute and a university medical school.
Regarding the quack article on Herald, I was hoping that somebody could provide me with a direct link to it or a scanned copy of it. This is because a simple Google search did not pull it up. A specialized search was also not successful because Herald articles are not archived in any academic databases. Stephen provided a link to the Herald epaper home page, which I was aware of. But I was not sure whether the Herald Cafe page was included in the epaper. However, after going through one of the epaper issues page by page I was able to see that piece of crap. I will comment on it in my next post to Goanet. Cheers, Santosh Hide message history On Saturday, January 25, 2014 4:23 AM, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Santosh Helekar chimbelcho at yahoo.com on Fri Jan 24 17:13:35 PST 2014 wrote: >Can you please send me the article to which you are referring? Perhaps, I will be able to offer the feedback that you seek. I share your concern about quackery being spread through the internet and by the popular press. >Cheers, >Santosh > >COMMENT: >I thought Mr. Helekar was good at research on the internet? >Maybe I was wrong. >Stephen has mentioned the media, the date, and the heading under which the article was published. I myself read it on the net after Stephen’s post. >Sometimes it does help to feign ignorance. It does make a complainant repeat what is obvious. > > >Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão. > >
