Here is my response to the owner of the web site - reposted here for reference.
Hello: re: http://www.youngagain2000.com/col.html I viewed your web page today. I don't really know where you get all your information on Colloidal Silver. There is far too much annectdotal and experienctial information on the efficacy of Colloidal Silver both externally and internally, for it to be ignored. <<However they did publish a good article showing the uselessness of oral colloidal silver. >> Your conclusion that colloidal silver is useless, based upon an article at Quackwatch, flies in the face of thousands of people who have had extremely positive experiences with it internally - including myself. I just wanted you to know that. I am a registered nurse, fully baked and broiled in the medical model since 1975. I currently work full time in medicine and cardiology. Only in the last ten years have I turned to nutrition and alternative therapies and education in the same. Even though CS is expensive to buy, it has saved me thousands of dollars in potential lost wages from sick time and continues to do so. I did have medical investigation done for recurrent infection and there was no acceptable effective treatment for my septic problems. CS is the only thing that turns the tide 4-5 times per year for me internally against septic infection and boils. My experience is as annectdotal as anyone elses. There continue to be qualified caring professionals in life long careers that make contrary statements about colloidal silver. You could at least acknowledge this on your page. Providing none of these people have a vested interest in lying or spreading misinformation, ( and that would never happen on either side - right?), they are all basing ther statements on some process of thought or principle to the benefit of their clients or patients. You however are simply parrotting information gleaned from the internet. You have made no reference to personal experiences or the experiences of your clients. Your conclusion that colloidal silver is a fraud has some basis in fact. Many CS marketers have made unsubstantiated and unwarranted claims - they have also sold product that was not as labeled and have brought disrepute to the item and industry. They have sold something as a 'drug' in an attempt to get people to treat themselves and some have foregone necessary medical treatment with the promise of CS. This has not escaped the attention of the FDA. <<But I digress. I went on the Internet to find some of the medical claims for oral colloidal silver. These included arthritis, inflammation, food poisoning, cancer, cholera, conjunctivitis, diabetes, dysentery, diptheria, eczema, herpes, influenza, leprosy, malaria, meningitis, neurasthenia, shingles, skin cancer, staph, and strep infections, syphilis, tuberculosis, ulcers and whooping cough. This is just a partial list of claims.>> You went on the internet in search of medical evidence for CS. I'm afraid you will not find it. It's not there. You may find evidence that CS can and does destroy disease causing organisms. But did you search far enough on the internet to find the people who's lives have been changed by it? I work in cardiology. They tell us over and over again - the monitor is a good source of information but look at the patient. I remember I saw a life threatening arrythmia in a patient's monitor once - got all alarmed - ran to the patient's room with the crash cart only to find the patient brushing his teeth. The heart monitor had picked up the electrical energy from his arm as well as his heart. On the monitor, things did not look good at all. In reality, he was healthy and engaged in oral hygiene. Lesson is, look at the person. <<Many companies charge a lot of money for this and there is not one copper penny's worth of silver in a whole bottle of the stuff. It cost almost nothing to make as you just run a weak electric current through a piece of silver in water and leave a few micrograms (millionths of a gram) in solution. Often you see $29.95 prices for a four-ounce bottle.>> The price of colloidal silver was never based upon the weight of silver in the bottle. The industry standard is 5 ppm. You are right - there is not much silver weight in the product - but using this information to back up claims that the product is a fraud is not called for. May I point out to you that a box of corn flakes that contains about 25 cents worth of corn sells for about $4 per box. Toothpaste follows the same route and need I mention bottled spring water? Could we rightly call these a fraud based upon pricing? I don't grow my own corn, make my own toothpaste or drive to a local spring - I pay for the service. It's margin selling - everyone gets a cut along the way - hooray for the American way! You market products on your site that cost pennies to make and sell for many dollars - do you complain when you take the money to the bank? When I got to the bottom of the page - it all got summed up. You found something to discredit in order to promote your own saleable products - to catch people on the back swing of the preceding paragraphs. I'm afraid that this is nothing more than manipulating the reader to purchase your products - a perfectly legal tactic but I personally don't trust business people that do this - and based upon this alone, I would not do business with you - even to purchase good products. I hope this is helpful to you. Sincerely Yours, Ian Roe ----- Original Message ----- From: "John A. Stanley" <[email protected]> Newsgroups: list.silver To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 1:07 PM Subject: Re: CS>RE; CS a Scam > In article <[email protected]>, > Tel Tofflemire <[email protected]> wrote: > >Frank: > >In his first Report it was Colloidal Silver, I wrote to him with what I > >have experienced and said basically he was totally wrong, he now came > >out with this report. I tried to put the link on the silver list but it > >was too big I guess. I cut and past below, and post the link. > >http://www.youngagain.com > >"Colloidal silver has no value and almost no silver in the solution. > >Yes, it is true that colloidal silver has EXTERNAL uses in bandages for > >burns, wounds, and infections but no internal ones. " > >Roger Mason calls this news letter "Hall of Shame" > >Tel Tofflemire > >Dewey, Az > > I found the article here: > > http://www.youngagain2000.com/col.html > > This chump has simply swallowed the Quackwatch piece hook, line, and > sinker. The guy has done no real research. > > -- > John A. Stanley [email protected] > > > -- > -- 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]>
