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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: RFD Alternative Medicine - need definition
- Message-ID: <17501@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:11:17 GMT
- References: <546@ulogic.UUCP> <17472@pitt.UUCP> <1992Nov16.205552.6554@island.COM>
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- Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
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- In article <1992Nov16.205552.6554@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
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- >
- >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 you've been around long enough to know I like controversy.
- If you'd read other newsgroups, you'd see that I do also. I'm
- just getting weary of the same ones coming up again and again,
- and I also want to raise the scientific level of the discussion
- on sci.med. The alternative stuff is hindering attacting more
- scientists to sci.med.
-
- >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.
-
- Some people are and some people aren't. People who are not scientifically
- trained often don't know how to evaluate evidence. You see it
- here almost every day where people imply causality without valid
- reasons. "I took X and felt better, therefore I *know* homeopathy
- works." It isn't just a matter of intelligence, although stupid
- people never will get it. Very intelligent people can believe in
- very stupid myths.
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "I have given you an argument; I am not obliged
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | to supply you with an understanding." -S.Johnson
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