Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-25 Thread Ivo da C.Souza
From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com --- On Sat, 4/24/10, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: **I did not refer to money scams of (Dr.) Dana Ullman, but to his knowledge of homeopathy, since he has books on homeopathic. **Let it be clear once for all: I never said that I agreed with

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 4/25/10, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: Can Dr.Santosh write books on homeopathy? Yes, any person who has passed 7th standard can write a book on homeopathy because it does not require any kind of deeper understanding or even an elementary knowledge of physics, chemistry

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-24 Thread Ivo da C.Souza
From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com --- On Fri, 4/23/10, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: Dana Ullman, with his experience in the homeopathic field, shows his expertise and could be called Dr.Ullman; he is helping humanity with his products. Everybody, including Dr. Gilbert,

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 4/24/10, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: **I did not refer to money scams of (Dr.) Dana Ullman, but to his knowledge of homeopathy, since he has books on homeopathic medicine. --- On Sat, 4/24/10, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote:

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: This sounds better argued, though I'm not willing to buy into the science/medicine-can-do-no-wrong logic. The argument by adjective [1] continues though (false statements, warped logic, falsely claims, besides tarnish). Gilbert, I appreciate

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: Dana Ullman, with his experience in the homeopathic field, shows his expertise and could be called Dr.Ullman; he is helping humanity with his products. Everybody, including Dr. Gilbert, Admin Noronha and Fr. Ivo should be concerned

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-23 Thread Frederick Noronha
Santosh Helekar wrote: --- On Fri, 4/23/10, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: Dana Ullman, with his experience in the homeopathic field, shows his expertise and could be called Dr.Ullman; he is helping humanity with his products. Everybody, including Dr. Gilbert, Admin Noronha and Fr.

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org wrote: You're shifting the debate from one on the failures of so-called modern medicine, to Dana Ullman and  his political website. FN The original diatribe in Huffington Post was about the implication that modern medicine is not

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-22 Thread Ivo da C.Souza
From: Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine? This sounds better argued, though I'm not willing to buy into the science/medicine-can-do-no-wrong logic. The argument by adjective [1] continues

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
It looks like Huffington Post has become a full-fledged dishonest pseudoscientific operation. How embarrassing that a silly diatribe from a publicist and salesman for homeopathy is posted as a serious article questioning the scientific nature of modern medicine? Cheers, Santosh --- On Tue,

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-21 Thread Frederick Noronha
Santosh Helekar wrote: It looks like Huffington Post has become a full-fledged dishonest pseudoscientific operation. How embarrassing that a silly diatribe from a publicist and salesman for homeopathy is posted as a serious article questioning the scientific nature of modern medicine?

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
Noronha has mischaracterized my post in his response appended below. So in making false statements about what I have written in it, by his own warped logic, Noronha has attempted to tarnish me, the author of my post. My comments were directed at Huffington Post and the article published in it.

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 4/21/10, Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com wrote: Please see the following website owned by the author Dana Ullman on which he publicizes homeopathy and sells homeopathic books, pamphlets, CD-ROMs, etc. I cannot call him a homeopath because he has no degree in homeopathy, and

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-21 Thread J. Colaco jc
Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org wrote: PS: This cannot be denied: I certainly realize that many of us have benefited greatly from modern medicine, but I also realize that many of us have been hurt greatly from it too. Dear FN, Please do expand on the above which you contend cannot be

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-21 Thread Frederick Noronha
operation refers to Huffington Post, not to the motives of this specific author Dana Ullman, as Noronha falsely claims. The term silly diatribe refers to the contents of the article, not to the author or his motives. The words publicist and salesman accurately... Gilbert Lawrence to goanet How

[Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-20 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
How Scientific is Modern Medicine Really?   The analysis and conclusions may shock you Read the following link, if you want to be shocked and disappointed.   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-ullman/how-scientific-is-modern_b_543158.html   Regards, GL