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- From: young@clpd.kodak.com (Rich Young)
- Subject: Re: Calcium/Magnesium
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.232920.3510@pixel.kodak.com>
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- Organization: Clinical Diagnostics Division, Eastman Kodak Company
- References: <altar.725581448@sfu.ca> <1992Dec28.234854.16347@pixel.kodak.com> <altar.725666594@sfu.ca>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 23:29:20 GMT
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- In article <altar.725666594@sfu.ca> altar@beaufort.sfu.ca (Ted Wayn Altar) writes:
- >Rich Young writes:
- >
- >> I believe he already did that which you ask in his previous rebuttal
- >> of your interpretation of Moon's study in r.f.v.
- >
-
- [...ravings deleted...]
-
- >Instead, we are asked to take Mr. Dyer's word for it that
- >Professor Moon is a crank. Ok, then in that case I would like know what
- >Mr. Dyer's credentials are. Does he have a PhD from accredited
- >university? Has he any publications? Has even a graduate degree of
- >any kind?
-
- As I said, I believe he gave you all that in the r.f.v. exchange;
- if you've subsequently forgotten, it's not Mr. Dyer's duty to
- refresh your memory on demand.
-
- Not that it matters, of course, since truth or falsity cannot be
- determined by credentials alone. After all, Nobel laureate Linus
- Pauling still thinks massive doses of vitamin C can cure/prevent
- the common cold.
-
- >Second, no rebuttal of my "interpretation" occurred since at that time
- >no one had even read the study except for myself.
-
- Indeed, then it HAD to be a rebuttal of your "interpretation," for the
- very reason that no one but you had yet read Moon's study. As I
- recall, several people read it shortly thereafter, however.
-
- >Instead, all that I saw were the mere quibbles about terms and vilification
- >of a an accomplished researcher and professor of toxicology/nutrition teaching
- >at a major Canadian University. Hardly a very credible "refutation".
-
- Oh, I don't know as I agree with that...it was fairly well established
- that your frenetic references to "anabolic steroids" were, shall we
- say, "misguided." It was also fairly well established that the mere
- fact that calciferol is a steroid is not a heart-stopping revelation.
- And it was fairly well established that it was fortification of food
- with vitamin D which essentially eliminated rickets from the Western
- world. Sounds like a credible "refutation" to me. But if all you
- saw was quibbling and vilification, then you were clearly not reading
- the rebuttals in a calm and considered manner and you might well have
- overlooked the portions which dealt with credentials and information.
- As I recall, you left in a self-righteous huff to go nurse your
- wounds in GRANOLA for several weeks right after said rebuttal.
-
- By the way, how many times did Moon use the phrase "anabolic
- steroid" in his paper? How many times did _you_ use the phrase
- "anabolic steroid" in your "interpretation" of his paper?
-
- [Yes, these are "trick" questions; the answer to the first is "zero,"
- and the answer to the second is not. You did not serve Dr.
- Moon at all well in your "interpretation."]
-
-
- -Rich Young (These are not Kodak's opinions.)
-