Dear Dr Jon Brooks You wrote: > Obviously over 1,000 emails praising the 24 hr cure for the common > cold/flu as well as over 100 who successfully got off statin > drugs in favour of the niacin flush were ALL placebo reactions. > These here placebos dang shore been a'workin' fer me, and my > patients, for over 40 years. Maybe they like me.
ST: I see. Modern efficacy trials are now conducted by e-mail. I suppose you subtract the "did not work" from the "did work" and calculate the statistical significance. Now that really is a an advance in scientific method. No placebo controls required, not even "inert ionic silver". I suppose you cannot be blamed if you were never taught that spontaneous remission (SR) and the psychosomatic placebo (PP) effect account for an average effect of between 60-75 % of orally medicated remissions during clinical trials.... for resistent conditions. SR/PP for self-limiting conditions is closer to 100%. Also, the estimate for allopathic medication and procedures which have actually been objectively evaluated to modern standards of safety and efficacy is less than 25% according to the US Congress Office of TechnologyAssessment (Science News, May, 6, 1995 <www.sciserv.org>). Like it or not, SR and PP have largely covered your but for the last 40 years and continue to do so today. Dr Jon Brooks wrote: > To compound my sins I have produced an extensive alternative > medicine website (over 300,000 visitors in one year) which has > zero/zilch advertising. Obviously some nefarious masterplan > must be a'foot for one to turn down a few thousand dollars/mo. > in advertising. ST: So what? Your visits are most likely eclipsed several fold by cocacola.com, macdonalds.com and even playboy.com, not to mention several thousand other equally insignificant homepages. It's quality and integrity that impress me, like not trashing thers to elevate your own and claiming superiority without irrefutable substantiable evidence shared freely, and yes this standard might possibly be found only on a website that has not had even a single visitor. But then, that's life. Truly good things often come in small packages, if indeed they come at all. Dr Jon Brooks wrote: > > Yep, I have somehow managed to hoodwink thousands of hapless > suckers into believing that my observations have merit . . . > which is easy as the most abundant substances in the universe > are hydrogen and stupidity. ST: You said it, not me. Dr Jon Brooks wrote: > Let the record show that I deny the scurrulous allegations . > However, I assure you that I bear no ill will and wish only health > and happiness for you. ST: Let us not judge lest we too be judged. Jon, let me assure you (and Frank Key) too, that I bear no ill wish and only happiness for you too. Love Stuart -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
