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Fri Jun 12 11:57:24 BST 2009

One other thing: they'll all be laughing at us 100 years from now, just as
we scoff today. Who'd have thought of robotic or even laparoscopic surgery?
Medications to keep crazy people out of assylums? Heck-- beta blockers in
COPDers?! Or Flagyl for pregnant people? (And those two were from MY
training days of-- "no no never!")

CMM

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Fiona Wallace <tielserrath at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Open minded means being open to evidence.
>  Being open minded to things with no evidence means you've let your brain
> fall out.
>
> Note: the 'open minded' defence is the classic tactic of alties. It signals
> that you have no evidence and therefore no argument, but just want to try
> and make the other person look bad. It's the equivalent of saying 'can't you
> take a joke' to someone you've just insulted.
>
> Acupuncture has been extensively studied, as has the 'life force' and
> auras. See the James Randi Educational Foundation website, and more
> importantly, follow the challenge link on the site and see what happens when
> this stuff is put to the test.
>
> I'm open minded - offer me reproducible positive studies, and falsifiable
> data, and I will change my mind in an instant. Belief should be reserved for
> religion, if you are that way inclined.
>
> Fiona.
>
>
>
>
> On 12/06/2009, at 6:50 PM, Lorick Fox, MPAS, PA-C wrote:
>
> Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
>> I tend to suspect that you are right, but as it has NOT been studied
>> (although there is some work comparing reports of "aura" among people who
>> claimed to able to perceive such and it was neither consistent nor
>> supportive of their claims).
>>
>> I therefore reserve judgment.
>> I view keeping an open mind is the scientific approach.
>>
>>
>> Lorick Fox, MPAS, PA-C
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>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
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>>>>
>>> Subject: Re: Alternative therapies (OT)
>>>
>>> There is no such thing as 'life energy' except the stuff that comes
>>> out of defibrillator paddles (and then only when it works)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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