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- From: sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne)
- Subject: Re: Non-physician bashing
- In-Reply-To: turpin@cs.utexas.edu's message of 19 Dec 92 13:26:36 EST
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- Sender: sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne)
- Organization: ScotSoft Research
- References: <1992Dec9.000112.2254@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> <1gvpgsINNm32@im4u.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:00:41 GMT
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- In article <1gvpgsINNm32@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
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- Those who embrace quack theories [...] are merely less
- than well educated or lacking in the skills for critical thought
- in the area concerned.
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- There was an interesting paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine,
- July 1984 which studied patients and practitioners who indulged in
- 'alternative' (i.e. quack) theories of cancer medicine. Of many
- interesting observations, particularly interesting was that most
- patients were well educated (no arguments about what really
- constitutes education, puleeze) and that 50% of the practioners were
- M.D.s
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