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I have never laughed so much at... | by Kickstart | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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I might consider trying it | by celticess | 2004-12-12 16:01:43 |
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Quack medicine | by run.dll | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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Well I wondered if it was | by celticess | 2004-12-12 17:32:22 |
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Good, you have common sense, | by run.dll | 2004-12-12 17:59:12 |
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Or what about the new | by celticess | 2004-12-12 18:38:10 |
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by run.dll |
2004-12-12 18:57:25 |
condolences re your daughter. Terminal illness of one's child is the only case where I don't get snotty about resort to quack medicine. In a case like that, it's hard not to sympathize with a parent grasping at any straw. I have nothing but contempt for those who sell the crzp to the parents, though.
"(she's a ditz but she's a sweetheart otherwise)", been there - had a girlfriend who used to carry a little bag of crystals in her purse and once took them out and explained in detail the purpose of each one - sweet but clueless in some areas.
A lot of quackery in the past two centuries has taken on the vocabulary of science, talking about energies (first used in a quantitative scientific sense by Meyer c. 1800), frequencies (as applied to crystals, which in fact have resonant frequencies - e.g. quartz watches - but misused in this sense), and so on. You're right, arguing is often pointless. I can't recall who said that "it is pointless to use reason to dissuade a person from a stance that wasn't originally arrived at by reason" (roughly paraphrased). |
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