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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Hormesis/Homeopathy
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 10:38:10 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1992Dec17.173125.21260@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1h31d3INNfm0@gap.caltech.edu>,<1992Dec21.160709.4842@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec21.160709.4842@netcom.com>, payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >>Hormesis is the idea that exposure to a substance at a level that is at the
- >>very limit of being able to produce clinical symptoms will tend to enhance
- >>the body's defense mechanisms. However, for hormesis, you need a high enough
- >>dose that it *DOES* produce clinical symptoms.
- >
- >Hey, wait a minute. I just recalled reading of enviornmentalist suits
- >against major corporations for all sorts of vague ills and sicknesses
- >supposedly caused by low levels of contaminants. This was from an issue of
- >_Reason_, wonder if I still have it somewhere?
-
- Do you know what the requirements are for filing a lawsuit in this country?
- You must:
- 1) Fill out the appropriate forms;
- 2) Pay the required fee.
- Do you know what the requirement for winning a lawsuit that you've filed is?
- 1) You must convince a jury of people selected on the basis of their
- inability to understand what the lawsuit's about that you've got
- a valid claim.
- So you're citing a LAWSUIT as evidence for or against anything?
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-