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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: RFD Alternative Medicine - need definition
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.033415.12191@spdcc.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:34:15 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov17.033415.12191
- References: <546@ulogic.UUCP> <17472@pitt.UUCP> <1992Nov16.205552.6554@island.COM>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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- In article <1992Nov16.205552.6554@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
- >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.
-
- Yeah--that's why we don't trust the flat earth society. What a threat
- to our world view.
-
- >I think when people are presented with more than one viewpoint, they
- >are intelligent enough to decide for themselves which is valid.
-
- Well, you're a walking exception to THAT rule.
-
- >They don't need you to shout "quack" whenever an alternative approach is
- >suggested.
-
- Or you'd prefer not to hear it. No one shouts quack _whenever_
- an alternative approach is suggested. However, if people rely on
- superstition and fuzzy thought or just plain ignorance in choosing
- such an "alternative", you can't expect much respect here.
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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