My understanding that petrie dish was quick easy way to test effect only. A first step.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Stebbins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 3:18 PM Subject: Re: CS>Anthrax Comment - mesosilver > Hi Catherine; > Regarding the phrases: ("...but it > >has nothing what so ever to do with how it will behave inside the human > >body. All such studies fail to ever mention that fact,...") > > What, then, is the point of even making Petrie dishes, much less making the > hundreds of thousands of researches within the medical field alone which > employ petrie dish experiments to explore the possible outcomes of various > hypotheses? > Should Petrie dishes be sold only to non-medical users? > Are all these researchers deceitful, or only those exploring the medical > applications of various forms of finely divided silver? Is the deceit > contained in the lack of specificity which the colloidal silver researchers > exhibit in presenting their clearly labelled in vitro experiments, or is it > contained in the implication that they fail to specifically state (in > contrast to the more relaxed requirements imposed on the rest of the > medical research community) That THEIR research is of course totally > inapplicable to any immediate human therapeautic concerns? Would THAT > statement be more accurate, or just more consonant with Mr. Key's agenda? > Perhaps, rather, the deceit is to be found in the rhetoric of Mr. Key's > categorically emphatic remarks: "...nothing what so ever ..." and: "All > such studies fail to ever mention that fact ..." > Let's proceed to the next statement, directly following the above: ("... > and in fact leave the > >reader with the false impression that it would work just as well inside the > >body. Nothing could be farther from the truth.") > Which readers are left with what false impression? Well, I'll coin the > phrase; "All the world are fools, excepting thee and me, and I sometimes > have my doubts about thee." > If you find this offensive and demeaning, consider how the rest of "...the > reader[s] ..." might also feel, and quite justifiably so. > Before I leave the rhetorical quagmire of Mr. Key's statement, I'd invite > you to comment on his remark that: "Nothing could be farther from the > truth...," in the context of the studies referred to, rather than the > context of Mr. Key's evaluation of all us readers' intellectual > ineptitude. In other words, do the in vitro studies indicating the high > efficacy of ionic and/or colloidal silver in Petrie dishes really establish > their total, categorical inapplicability to conditions of human > disease? That would indeed turn the research community on it's collective > head! > You may find Mr. Key to be an honest, helpful and dedicated person in his > response to your queries, and indeed he may well be, but his rhetoric > SUCKS!! That flaw, if no other, calls ALL of his remarks into serious doubt. > My concern here is not to use your posts as once-removed springboards to > attack Mr. Key's, rather I am dismayed that someone with your high > dedication and great research capacity would endorse, and thus give > greater weight to, such self-serving cant. > Take care, Malcolm > > At 06:44 AM 3/2/03 -0800, you wrote: > > >Dear Malcolm, > > > > > > You said: > > > ><<Hi Catherine, I think it would be worthwhile for you to clarify and > >delimit > >your blanket approval of "this" to one or several of the statements and/or > >dependent implications Frank Key makes in the first paragraph you quoted; > >you can nit-pick it as well as I, the first three sentences alone...>> > > > > > > ** This is the statement to which I was referring: > > > > >Killing power of ionic silver in a Petri dish may be interesting but it > > >has nothing what so ever to do with how it will behave inside the human > > >body. All such studies fail to ever mention that fact, and in fact leave > >the > > >reader with the false impression that it would work just as well inside the > > >body. Nothing could be farther from the truth. > > > > > >Regards, > >Catherine > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.445 / Virus Database: 250 - Release Date: 1/21/03 > -- 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]>
