Scott: Is this your correct email---noah?
Scott Berner <[email protected]> I would like you to answer the questions about what formal scientific training you have had, degrees and so forth. It is one thing to have been formally trained in rigorous programs with objective testing to demonstrate that you have the ability to understand scientific concepts and it is quite another to pontificate without having that training. Most people who are capable of competing with others intellectually in rigorous training programs think twice before they offer opinions on those things that they do not truly understand. By the way, I appreciated Mike's comments. You are clearly argumentative and offensive with your comments and observations and the fact that you do not recognize that this is the case is part of the main problem. Your comments are set forth in "ad hominem" style, which means that they are "directed to the man" rather than to the subject matter. Fundamentalist religious zealots absolutely cannot stand certain groups of people and are the first to attack. They need something to hate, and it seems that the AMA is your target. There may be other things that you "hate". Never mind that pharmaceutical companies have done some marvelous things with research that can help the little girl with diabetes far more than wood alcohol diatribes. Never mind that there are many different facets to medical care in this country. Let's form a hate club and just throw it all away---you are right and every- body else is wrong! Noah and his ark? This attitude is totally contrary to religion as I understand it, but then I am not a fundamentalist. I note that you concluded that I was not religious simply because I asked you if your religious sayings had any business on a list about colloidal silver after you challenged me that my comments were not appropriate on a silver list. You came to the wrong conclusion with less basis for that conclusion more quickly than anyone else I have ever met. This is not how the scientific method works. Furthermore, it is clear that colloidal silver is a very simple chemical concept. You make it (or better yet purchase from a manufacturer with quality controls who can accurately give you concentration levels rather than crude estimates based on the color of the solution) with some electrodes to form a particle solution and take it according to body weight. Therefore, what is all this "knowledge" you are supposed to know that makes you so valuable that the list cannot exist without you? The intelligent mind simplifies, not complicates. You do not know what you do not know, and that is the major problem. As these observations are certain to make you "mad", despite the fact that they are only brutally honest, as are any other comments that point out your inconsistencies or the fact that you may not truly be of the caliber that you think you are ("noah" to your sheep?), just keep in mind that if you want to be honest with others then you have to start with yourself. Giving your "honest" opinion to everyone else about things that you do not even begin to understand is not being honest---it is being shallow and very self-centered. Sorry to break this news to you, as it will probably go in one ear and out the other, but someone has to at least once. God help you, because you need it. Tom Clayton
