Quoted message said:Subject: Re: Ascorbate results?
From: "Peter Moran" [email hidden]
Date: 2/6/2004 11:35 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Subject: Re: Ascorbate results?
From: "Peter Moran" [email hidden]
Date: 2/6/2004 2:01 PM Pacific Standard Time
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> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/2/prweb102812.php
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> Cook, declined the artificial statin in mid-April of 2002 following
> emergency triple bypass surgery. Instead, he began Tower Heart
Technology
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> after watching a video of Nobelist Linus Pauling explaining the value
of
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> vitamin C for cardiovascular disease. William had his first heart
attack
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> March 17, 2002 and a second 10 days later on March 27, 2002. In
December
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> 2001 prior to his heart attacks, Bill's numbers had been Cholesterol
242
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> LDL Cholesterol 163.
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> Cook and long-time friend Sally Jewell had both worried about their
> decision, but they became jubilant after the blood tests results came
in,
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> To our wonderment and surprise, in 8 months his cholesterol had dropped
from
> 246 to 164 and his LDL cholesterol had dropped from 163 to 101, all on
2
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> jars of Tower Heart Technology per month, plus 2,000 mg. additional
vitamin
> C as ascorbic acid."
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> Anth
A good example of the problem with anecdote/testimonial. We are not
told
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:whether he followed the advice regarding diet and exercise that all such
patients are given. We are left uncertain whether supplements
containing
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:nicotinic acid might also have been taken.
Testimonial/ anecdote, as wholeheartedly endorsed by "alternative"
medicine,
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:is not a very effective instrument for the advancement of medical
knowledge. Medicine does make use of anecdotal data, but in a much
more
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:sophisticated form.
Peter Moran
You have just seen an example of why alternative medicine just keeps
growing.
Studies show that people will exert their right to try out treatments that
have a very small chance of working
Why is there a need to do that??
Quoted message said:That's fine. That is their
prerogative and I am not targeting them, or even you, except when you defend
the indefensible or are being more than usually offensive..
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The indefensible is an opinion.
I am sorry that being straight forward is listed under *offensive*.
Quoted message said:I do complain about those peddling junk medicines
Everyone does, except what is junk is also an opinion.
You see, with all the evidence and studies we have of ill effects of certain
things, and no proof of them ever being safe, yet endorsed by organized
medicine and dentistry is indeed junk.
Quoted message said:I think they know
exactly what they are doing when they make up or exploit testimonial and
anecdotal evidence.
They are following a long and illustrious line of snake oil salesmen.
There are indeed dishonest people in all professions.
We see many here each day.
Quoted message said:That is why the number of persons making a living out of offering unproven,
dubious, experimental and even ridiculous remedies to the public is indeed
"growing". by the day.
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Umm, a bit of twisting there. Alternative medicine keeps growing, and you gave
us one example of why.
Quoted message said:Admit it. How can you know what to trust when any old nonsense accumulates
its own encrustation of testimonial?
First you talk with a person who has actual experience.
Next, you talk with another person with actual experience.
You really don't need to know what color their under pants are, stick with the
symptoms, the treatment that had RESULTS.
Then do your own research.
You don't need every last detail.
Lastly, you don't listen to the nonsense put forth by ANY organized medicine
memeber on this newsgroup.
WORD OF MOUTH will beat your so called *sophisticated form*.
Of which only 38% has ever been proven.
People are NOT stupid.
A collect of testimonies and anecdotes are why studies are done.
Jan