--- On Mon, 6/1/09, J. Colaco < jc> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Now - all this doctor needs to do is to provide documentation from a
> recognised hospital where PVS was diagnosed, and present this patient
> for the public to see for themselves.
>
The man appears to be making up stories either in self-interest or because of
some problem. What is disturbing, however, is that the journalists and editors
who published this story, besides being gullible and scientifically illiterate,
did not have the sense to cross-check and independently verify what they are
reporting.
It is possible that they too do not believe that their opinions have to be
based on facts.
It should have been a simple matter to ask others who are knowledgeable about
the specifics of the claims, such as the hospital authorities in question, if
these claims had any validity. The journalist also did not bother to find out
which multinational companies were threatening this medic, to rule out obvious
suspicions of ideologically based paranoia that any skeptical reader would
have. It is a fairly common observation that promoters of alternative therapies
are fond of making wild allegations about world-wide conspiracies involving
multinationals, scientists, mainstream medical professionals, free market
economies and western countries.
Cheers,
Santosh
