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- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Path: sparky!uunet!island!green
- From: green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein)
- Subject: Re: RFD Alternative Medicine - need definition
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.205552.6554@island.COM>
- Organization: Strawman Incorporated
- References: <Bx3y2o.4r6@ssr.com> <546@ulogic.UUCP> <17472@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:55:52 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <17472@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >
- >I started this, and I am a medical person. Many of us are getting
- >very weary of all the alternative medicine advice that is getting
- >posted to sci.med, and tired of combatting it all the time. People
- >query sci.med and get answered by a bunch of quacks. I'd like a
- >newsgroup where they can go and quit bothering us, frankly. There
- >is a real danger that the doctors are going to leave sci.med due to
- >this sort of thing, (among others) and then the quacks will have
- >sci.med as their main newsgroup.
-
- I think the real reason you proposed the alternative group is that
- you don't like controversy when it dares to challenge the party line.
- I think when people are presented with more than one viewpoint, they
- are intelligent enough to decide for themselves which is valid. They
- don't need you to shout "quack" whenever an alternative approach is
- suggested.
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