Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is TOO FUNNY!!! He told You that You should have an open mind?!?! Awesome.
Yes, that is exactly the same attitude that my kids and others have. If it doesn't have a peer-reviewed article in NEJM, then it doesn't exist. I think we are brought up to look at medicine as a sort of religion, and the doctors as high priests, where we have to take everything on faith, don't dare question anything, and have to do whatever they tell us. Fortunately, the older I get, the more my BS alarm goes off, and the less I pay attention to anything other than reality. My definition of reality: "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away." I love it. As for CS, both my wife and I were starting to give up on convincing our friends to use it, but then just yesterday my wife called in tears to tell me that the mid-thirties son of good friends of hers just died from H1N1. We both decided that we don't care if people think we're kooks or PITAs, we are going to keep pushing CS. We have made a few converts. But it is an uphill battle all the way. Cheers! Dick ________________________________ From: Dorothy Fitzpatrick <d...@deetroy.org> To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, December 3, 2009 8:38:06 AM Subject: Re: CS>spreading the word I do soooo agree Dick! Even my friends who have had good results when I more or less forced it on them to try, still will not do it properly. The *won't* take enough, and of course if it doesn't work straightaway because they *haven't* taken enough; they then rush off to the docs for ABX's! Ok for if the dog is off its food, and one will now take it as a preventative i.e her husband had the 'flu jab and promptly got a stonking case of the 'flu. She was so scared of getting it that she *did* take CS properly. But then, her husband said well, she may not have got it anyway! What can you do? I had a huge row with her husband about it. He has had the 'flu jab three years on the go, and twice came down with a nasty virus, and this third time, full blown 'flu! He will still go and have the jab next year though. Plus he had all the ABX's even though they are no good whatsoever for viruses, plus he had the Tamiflu as well! I've decided I'm not bothering any more with people that won't be helped. I wouldn't mind, but *he* told *me* that I should have an open mind! Unbelievable! dee On 3 Dec 2009, at 13:29, Richard Goodwin wrote: One funny thing I have noticed is how difficult it is to convince anybody who doesn't already know about CS how amazing it is. > >Both of my groan, er, I mean, grown kids have worked at the New England >Journal of Medicine, and they are "True Believers" in the AMA, FDA, and all >things traditional western medicine. And they steadfastly refuse to believe >in anything else. These are 30-somethings. At the moment. They totally >scoff at the idea of CS, as if we are talking about voodoo or witchdoctors or >something. > >Same reaction with people at work. So now I just don't bother much. I hear >them coughing and sniffing, taking off sick, talking about the flu, getting >their flu shots, getting colds, etc., and think how nice it is not to have to >deal with any of that any more. But even when they are sick, they don't want >to hear about CS. > >Of course it doesn't help that the powers that are against it have websites >that they pay to keep at the front of google searches, that put down CS and >try to scare people away from it. A friend of mine did a google search on it, >and the first 3 or 4 items were quackwatch, some site from a university, the >standard blue man and gray people pictures, etc. It's no wonder people get >turned off to it. I looked into quackwatch, and found references to the guy >who owns it having received awards from the FDA. No surprises there. The >university sites were AMA connected. You have to pay to get your website up >front on google like that, and I'll bet I know exactly who is paying in this >case. > >Anyhow, interesting phenomenon, the resistance to learning about something new >like this, or maybe it is just resistance to learning about anything that >doesn't come from one's own doctor? > >Dick >
