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- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: RFD Alternative Medicine - need definition
- Message-ID: <17508@pitt.UUCP>
- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:19:56 GMT
- Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
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- References: <546@ulogic.UUCP> <17472@pitt.UUCP> <1992Nov16.164554.24623@microsoft.com>
- Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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- In article <1992Nov16.164554.24623@microsoft.com> tomca@microsoft.com (Tom B. Carey) writes:
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- >interesting. Too often apologists for "alternative medicine" are
- >not confronted by persons with a grounding in the scientific
- >tradition, and are able to pass off a load of pseudo-scientific piffle
- >to a credulous audience. The only time I've seen this kind of dialog
- >is on sci.med, and I'll be sorry to see it go!
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- Well, I think Steve Dyer and Russ Turpin have not promised to
- stay off the alternative group. You well may still have this
- sort of debunking going on. I'm the only one who promised
- to leave them alone if they went there.
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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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