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- From: young@clpd.kodak.com (Rich Young)
- Subject: Re: Prof. Moon et al. on "vitamin" D
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.233459.14530@pixel.kodak.com>
- Originator: young@sasquatch
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- Organization: Clinical Diagnostics Division, Eastman Kodak Company
- References: <altar.725693071@sfu.ca> <altar.725826895@sfu.ca>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 23:34:59 GMT
- Lines: 53
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- In article <altar.725826895@sfu.ca> altar@beaufort.sfu.ca (Ted Wayn Altar) writes:
- >
- >For those who have not seen that earlier posting being referred
- >to here of late, I'll repost it now for your benefit.
-
- [...miles of thrice-posted "interpretation" deleted...]
-
- For the record, let us compare Moon's references to "steroids" to
- those which "ted" uses in his "interpretation."
-
- On page 568 of the journal in which Moon's paper is printed, Moon
- says, "...it has become generally accepted that vitamin D's mode of
- action is similar to that of the steroid hormones [40]." This is
- the ONLY use of the word "steroid" in Moon's paper.
-
- He does use the phrase "vitamin-turned-hormone" on page 576 in
- reference to vitamin D, but this is hardly a reference to an
- "anabolic steroid." Indeed, the phrase "potent steroid hormone"
- is not found in the paper, although he does quote Peng and Taylor
- as saying, "...reclassification as a potent, carefully controlled
- hormone should be seriously considered."
-
- Now let's see what "ted" had to say about the paper last March,
- when he presented to Usenet a summary of Moon's yet unpublished work
- in message number <altar.701807697@sfu.ca> in the rec.food.veg group.
-
- In the "summary of highlights" we find, "potent and dangerous
- anabolic seco-steroid hormone" and "synthetic steroid hormone."
- this is already more often than Moon, himself, used the term
- "steroid."
-
- In the next paragraph we find the phrase "steroid hormone" no less
- than twice, for a total of four. We find it in the next paragraph
- as well (5 uses). In the next paragraph we find "potent steroid
- hormone" once again (6 uses). In the next paragraph we find the
- second use of "anabolic steroid hormones" (7 total, 2 "anabolic").
-
- Moving on, we find the phrase "steroid hormone" in heading "IV" for
- a total of 8 uses of the word "steroid", 2 uses of "anabolic." Moon,
- if we may recall, used "steroid" only once, and rather matter-of-
- factly at that.
-
- I think, based on this and the recollection of Mr. Craig Silver who
- claims to have attended some of Moon's lectures and listened to taped
- copies of others, that we can safely say that Mr. Altar has most
- egregiously misrepresented Dr. Moon in his zeal to present some
- supporting evidence for his dietary lifestyle. I suggest we keep
- his sorry intellectual chicanery in mind when next we see some
- quasi-erudite oration from his keyboard in s.m.n. Such ludicrous
- literary legerdemain has no place in a forum where people seek facts.
-
-
- -Rich Young (These are not Kodak's opinions.)
-