After reading Dr. Jon's website yesterday, I have to agree with you Terry. He doesn't claim to be a doctor. He claims to be a "retired oncology researcher". The first I ever heard of Stephen Fason was here at this site:
http://ourhealthcoop.com I ordered from them and found them very reputable. In fact, their supplements are of very high quality and the least expensive around (except for maybe Wal-Mart). They even give them away to the poor. The only similarity I see between Stephen Fason and Dr. Jon is this quirky "cat" marketing thing that Dr. Jon has describing his Alternative Medicine email list on Yahoo, and Fason has going on throughout his website. They also seem to live in the same area. But Dr. Jon is supposedly in his 70s and you can see from the pictures of Stephen Fason that he is a much younger man. There's also an interview with Fason you can read to see that their personalities are nothing alike. http://www.ourhealthcoop.com/about_us_COO_Perspective.html If they truly are one and the same person - well then, maybe he has Multiple Personality Disorder or something <smile>. Other than that, Dr. Jon seems completely harmless and even good-hearted. He certainly tries to help people. And he doesn't deserve to be slandered and bad-mouthed for that. I didn't have time to read the articles on Fason though. Did anyone else get to? If so, please let us know if those articles state that Fason and Dr. Jon are one and the same person and if they provide any evidence of that. It seems to me that this is just someone's opinion and a mistaken one at that. Thanks. Jodi [email protected] wrote on 4/5/2004, 5:41 AM: > > Subject: CS>Dr. Jon Brooks > Date: 4/4/2004, 12:24 PM > From: Terry Chamberlin <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > I went to Jon Brooks website - http://www.cat007.com > and explored it thoroughly. Nowhere did I find any > claims that he was a medical doctor. If he got a "Dr." > in another field, or even through a mail-order course, > I don't know. > > But the article villifying him by Chet Day used > techniques similar to those by Stephen Barret or any > other anti-holistic writer. > > Much of what is on Brooks site is, in my opinion, > legitimate. Although he uses marketing techniques I > would not feel comfortable using - flamboyant phrases, > over-stating benefits, lots of exclamation points - > this does not, in my opinion, invalidate everything he > says and does, nor does it define him as a con-artist, > bent on rooking his victims. > > Some of the claims made by folks on this list > concerning CS sound sometimes like what Jon Brooks > claims. I have made some of these claims myself > (Overnight Recoveries! Amazing Disappearing > Infections! Dying Pets Becoming Frisky!) Hey, we have > actually experienced these kind of things. Why do we > go out of our way to look for bad in others? > > Yes, in fact, "Dr." Jon Brooks may not be all that he > appears. I don't know. But until I do know, from > evidence, not slander, I find much on his site that is > valid and beneficial to others. The fact that the IRS > and Federal marshals stormed his house is actually a > point in his favor - in my opinion - not evidence of > his rascalness. Great Scott, don't we all know of very > genuine heroes of the holistic world who have had the > same thing happen to them? Didn't Hulda Clark have > something like that happen to her? Hey, maybe Jon > Brooks has more going for him than we realize, if he > is being attacked by "the powers that be" like that? > > Anyway, my concern is about how quickly and easily we > form an opinion about others based on, essentially, > hearsay. Yes, Jon Brooks may be an outright crook, a > con-artist supreme, but I have not seen enough to > bring me to that conclusion. > > That's my whole two cents on this topic. > > Terry Chamberlin -- Jodi Waldman Menard Stoan Enterprises, Inc. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
