Re: WARNING: Industry is Blogging These NewsGroups to Maintain Their Monopolies

HCN wrote:
> <jdeere2312@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1124068445.340545.69880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >...> Opinion: Peter Bowditch/CathyB &co behave in totally
> > irrational manner within the ng. (This is only an
> > opinion, so you can't shoot this one down. If you
> > disagree, go find your own affected millions. Strong
> > Hint: They are not within the alt-med supporters
> > on this ng.)
> >
> > LD 6: PB and CB are highly likely to be two of the
> > millions of people with whom the KOLs have been effective.
> >
> > Hence "surely" is a reasonable adjective.
> >
> > [Wow, so here I am defending a single word in
> > a single post!]
> >
>
> Not sure what you are exactly saying... but it seems the gist is:

I think you got the gist right there when you said "Not
sure what you are exactly saying", you lost it a bit after that.

> Not okay: To be a critic of anything that is classified as "alt-med"
>
> Okay-dokay: To boost the sale of supplements and treatments from anything
> "alternative", including allowing the advertisements of multi-level
> marketers and websites of things like synchometers, juice, magnets and
> laetrile.
>
> In other words it is okay to be a shill for the likes of Mercola, Blaylock,
> Lorraine Day, Blaylock and even Alex Chiu.
>
> Do I have that right?

Well, you have it almost right, let's see if I can modify
it to fix it:

Not okay: To be a smug idiot who thinks his blind faith is
the only right way to think rationally and scientifically, and
everybody who is saying something else must be doing something
illogical or immoral.

Okay-dokay: To be able to use your own head, and be able
to think and even try to follow arguments.

In other words, it is okay not to be a smug idiot.

[Though frankly, health choices are finally personal, and
ultimately, from my principles I have to, and WILL, support
anybody's right to be a smug idiot when making decisions
about their own health. I don't think it's bad either.
If after being given all information, people prefer
to think superstitiously and refuse to do any thinking,
what they get is exactly
what they deserve.]

HTH.

.

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