Ian Roe wrote: > WHOH! I did not say CS did not work - read my post. I've got someone > saying I claimed it did not kill germs. That is not what I said - what I > said was that it was not an antibiotic.
I am really having a hard time getting a line on what you are saying. Since an antibiotic is any substance that kills life by definition, and you say it is not an antibiotic, but kills germs, are you trying to say that germs are not life? Maybe you should give us your personal definitions since they do not seem to agree with the dictionary for the following terms: antibiotic germs life > > > Flames will kill germs. Flames are not an antibiotic either. Actually according to the definition at webster, heat would qualify as being antibiotic. > Selling a > device that makes flames and calling it an antibiotic would be ridiculous. > They already to that. But they tend to call it sterlization by convention which has a much narrower definition: "sterilize - d : to free from living microorganisms". An antibiotic can kill only one thing and still be called an antibiotic, but sterlization kills everything. It would be rediculous to try and market a sterlizer using the term antibiotic since that would mean it might not kill all germs, when in fact it does. A marketing department would never do that. > Antibiotic is a term spawned by the drug cartel used to describe drugs that > work in a particular manner. That is false. There was no drug cartel in 1894 when the work was first coined. In fact there were no "modern antibiotics" then either, just things like silver and quinine. I don't believe antibiotic correctly describes > I don't believe antibiotic correctly describes CS. And I think that calling > it such and marketing it as such would get > someone in hot water with the FDA and thus would further hinder the cause. It either kills life or it doesn't. I know it does. The meaning of antibiotic is defined in the dictionary. If you don't like the definition, take it up with Merriam and Webster. Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
