Laura, meet RoseMary Jacobs. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 8:50 PM Subject: Re: CS>National Public Radio attack on CS
> > > << Did any of you hear the news report on National Public Radio yesterday > (October 23rd) which was highly, highly critical of CS? I didn't hear all > of > it since I never listen to the radio during working hours, but one of my > staff members alerted me to it about halfway through the news item. A > reporter told the story of the mayor of a small town somewhere (didn't catch > the name of the town) who believed that CS consumption would protect him > from > anthrax. He bought CS generators -- one for himself and one to keep at city > hall to continually brew CS for citizens of the town who could stop in for a > drink if they were inclined to do that. > The NPR reporter recited that she had checked with the know-it-alls at the > FDA who had pontifically declared that CS was worthless as a preventive or > curative measure for anthrax infection. In fact, she elaborated, it was > worse than worthless because internal consumption of CS would cause your > skin > to irreversibly turn blue or ashen gray. (The word "argyria" was never > mentioned, incidentally.) The reporter also declared that a certain lady > who > had consumed CS and whose skin had turned gray as a result thereof had set > up > a web site to "expose" the CS scam, and that pictures of this unfortunately > lady are posted on her web site. Unfortunately, neither the lady's name nor > the URL was mentioned in the news report (or at least not in the portion > that > I heard). > Well, everybody in my office knows that I brew and drink CS and once word > got > out that a negative news item was airing on NPR, they hit the appropriate > button on their phones to bring in the radio program. One of my employees > later told me that she always knew that CS was a fraud and that if I had any > sense at all, I would steer clear of it. > So, folks, did any of you happen to hear that news item on NPR? If so, I'd > like to know the name of the town whose mayor was ridiculed in the program > and would also like to know the web site address of the poor lass who's been > cosmetically ruined by CS consumption. > >> > > I had that info! May still have it somewhere... the town is in Florida here > and the article was posted on another egroup. I think the town is "Howey in > the Hills" (believe it or not) What a shame that poor mayor was so badly > criticised. :/ > > The lady you mention I had emailed back and forth a bit about CS a couple > weeks ago. She was all "nicey" with me while I was looking into any risks of > CS, but when I started to defend it along with other alternative health > methods she grew fangs and was very bitter in emails. As long as she thought > I was on her "side" she was nice. I ended up blocking her so she couldn't > write anymore lengthy, spiteful emails. > > Before doing that I told her I could understand her bitterness due to her > unfortunate experience and that I may be every bit as spiteful had such a > thing happened to me. However, what she didn't seem to see that I DID see in > just a couple days of web searches on argyria was that the cases of it I > found mention of on the net all had to do with 'saline nasal drops.' Isn't > that a bit suspicious? I figured it could easily have something to do with > silver chloride rather than pure colloidal silver which causes the argyria. > > I feel that the warnings some people / sites make available (don't take it > daily long term; use as an antibiotic rather than a daily supplement etc) is > sufficient to avoid the skin discoloration. Wouldn't you think? > > Here's the woman's site: > > http://homepages.together.net/~rjstan/rose1.html > > I didn't have a website for the article about the mayor - the text had been > posted in an egroup. I'll post the link if I come across it. > > Cheers. > Laura > > > > > -- > 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]> >
