List: Too bad I won't be here to read about it. I'll be in Mexico for the rest of the week. Roger
http://www.demystify.com/play.html Controversy: To start with, let me give you an interesting link to take a look at: http://www.quackwatch.com This is a fairly interesting site managed by people who want you to believe I am a quack. Their articles are quite convincing. In fact, I read several of their articles and found that I agree with most of their statements. However, when it came to their article on homeopathy I found it to be quite misleading. The easiest way to poo-poo something is to tell mostly the truth about it, but to also introduce some seemingly minor wrong facts which in the end totally negate all of the truth that was said. Nonetheless, the reader minimally knowledgeable about the subject will see most of the true facts, recognize them as truth and be impressed. They will usually miss the small lies and will totally fall under the power of the flawed argument. This is what Dr. Barrett did with homeopathy. He gives accurate history, theory and scientific facts, then tells some small untruths about research and makes a completely incorrect conclusion. I wrote to Dr. Barrett the following message: I looked through your site. Most of the info you have is quite valuable and I tell my patients the same things. Unfortunately, some of it must be wrong and I would have a very hard time figuring out what exactly is wrong not being educated in most of the subjects you discuss. The reason I am saying this is because while your article on Homeopathy is mostly factually correct, its conclusion is totally wrong. I can say this because I am an expert on the subject. I am also a board certified internist. In fact, I teach conventional medicine to lay homeopaths. Therefore, I like to think of myself as one who really understands both sides of this particular issue. Check out my site @ http://www.demystify.com Here you will find my whole book, my CV and just about anything about myself that you would ever want. In a few days I will hopefully have a place to put links on my site, then I intend to link to your site. The purpose of the link will be to demonstrate to general public how you and your colleagues in quack busting community operate: present mostly correct information with only seemingly minor misstatements followed by a completely wrong conclusion, thereby misinforming the public. We could have a lively debate. I am a scientist, and you will not have such an easy time proving me wrong as you would people who don't understand logic. Are you up to it? I will not call you names, I will not accuse you of being in collusion with the AMA or the drug companies ( in fact I have very little against either). My only goal is to provide information to people and allow them to make an informed decision. If you want the same, make some space on your site and lets have a debate. This letter and your reply will be posted on my site. Jacob -- 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]>
