From: "M. G. Devour" <[email protected]>
Date: 6 June 2008 12:06:14 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: CS>[List Owner] Niceness and topics...
Hi folks,
I think it's past time now to end or migrate the several
discussions of
water memory, meta-(and other kinds of)-physics, reality, what is or
isn't electricity, and so on. Those topics are no longer relevant to
colloidal silver or other alternative health topics.
As for David's and Sol's remarks labelling the idea of dead water and
all that as "just total nonsense," I fear that that kind of statement
is not the best approach to use in a group like ours... Having all
been
told at one time or another that colloidal silver and most other
alternative health concepts we are interested in are "just total
nonsense," I think a lot of us here will find that sort of expression
kinda insulting.
Mike
It's disappointing you suddenly feel the need to protect the most
thin skinned members of the list from the mildest form of criticism.
I agree that personal abuse is certainly not acceptable. And
describing a person's posts as nonsense is also borderline. But to
decree that now we can't even describe a widely published theory as
nonsense is really stifling the debate. I never even mentioned Nenahs
name or addy in my original post but if Nenah wanted any dissenting
view shut down, it looks like, with your new rules, she has succeeded.
And, yes, the internet is full of folks who'll tell us that CS and
every other alternative concept we generally take for granted are all
hoaxes, scams and "junk science," and Google will bring them all to us
in living color. Should we believe them, too?
If a casual reader of the silverlist sees 'controversial' theories go
unchallenged then it certainly doesn't help our cause of getting CS
out of the hoax category. We will be tarred with the same brush by
association.
One of the reasons colloidal silver has struggled to gain acceptance
is because the hard scientific facts about CS have been swamped by
the so-called 'proof' that is easily digested but so easily mocked.
(Blue bloods, pharaohs, silver dollars in milk, etc, etc.). So, in
case anyone missed it, there is in fact a small mountain of modern,
indisputable, scientific, research providing REAL PROOF that silver
kills germs. http://robholladay99.tripod.com/cs1index.htm
No, I haven't abandoned my sense of discernment or my essential
skepticism of unprovable claims, but I'm much slower these days to
label things as absolutely true or false.
So much "total nonsense" has
turned out to be important information that I reserve as much
skepticism for the nay-sayers as for the claimants.
If you feel strongly about something like this, then go ahead and
express it, but please refrain from rash declarations of "TRUTH" that
belittle the reader for holding any other opinion.
I made my point about this above.
regards
David
You don't *know*, you only *think* you know. <smile>
Thank you,
Mike Devour
silver-list owner
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