Comments on: not just ANY snake oil salesman http://diabetes.pocket-book.com/2005/03/23/not-just-any-snake-oil-salesman/ Some tips for diabetic, recipes and products. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:54:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: John King http://diabetes.pocket-book.com/2005/03/23/not-just-any-snake-oil-salesman/#comment-11070 John King Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:50:01 +0000 http://diabetes.pocket-book.com/2005/03/23/not-just-any-snake-oil-salesman/#comment-11070 Amen to that, Chris! I agree totally. I say let people speak freely here. If you don't like what they say delete them. We do have some on this list who think they are the authority of this list, what is best for everyone and smarter than us all. Pleeease. Linda K -------Original Message------- Check your history.....without government controls to some degree we are open to every snake oil salesman that comes along, being against a person having a degree is one thing , saying that a person who sells medical advice without any schooling - that is a sham--- some of the best salesman in this alternative <!--more--> medicine _____________________________________________________________-- Come now, did I say that????? I THINK NOT. In this age of advanced education and technology, we are able to research and corroborate every bit of information to establish its validity. A tangental conversation happening I am sure you have seen, is the one where people who stand to gain (monetarily) are endorsing a product. We are able to actually see their claims: put terms into search engines,- research names and credentials, talk to our local librarians (ad infinitum) Even if research is found in the most unreliable spot, we can still apply our own control over our lives and check to see what is there. If I can find a cure to this ultimately life controlling medical issue I have, I will use it. Even if it comes from a craggly old lady who lives in a tree stump up on a scary mountain. Can the results of checking out obscure sources be worse than going blind, having all your limbs lopped off and dying of kidney failure????? To discount alternative medicine just because it doesn't coincide with what a Dr. says is an exercise in apathetic ignorance. There have been many cures now accepted by the common medical world. They are embracing using leaches on wounds again; they have found out they clean gangrene cleaner than ANY modern chemical can, with no damage to perepheral tissue. There are many other things that in their own time were nothing but old wives tales, aspirin is one of them. I agree there are people out there who might try to make a buck with almost everything, but c'mon we live in a different world than back when they plugged bootleg into a bottle and sold it to cure baldness, constipation, and prevent cancer to boot. The big difference in this world is we are better educated. Chris [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Amen to that, Chris! I agree totally. I say let people speak freely here.
If you don’t like what they say delete them. We do have some on this list
who think they are the authority of this list, what is best for everyone and
smarter than us all. Pleeease.

Linda K

——-Original Message——-

Check your history…..without government controls to
some degree we are open to every snake oil salesman
that comes along, being against a person having a
degree is one thing , saying that a person who sells
medical advice without any schooling - that is a
sham— some of the best salesman in this alternative

medicine

_____________________________________________________________–
Come now, did I say that????? I THINK NOT.

In this age of advanced education and technology, we are able to research
and corroborate every bit of information to establish its validity. A
tangental conversation happening I am sure you have seen, is the one where
people who stand to gain (monetarily) are endorsing a product. We are able
to actually see their claims: put terms into search engines,- research names
and credentials, talk to our local librarians (ad infinitum)

Even if research is found in the most unreliable spot, we can still apply
our own control over our lives and check to see what is there. If I can
find a cure to this ultimately life controlling medical issue I have, I will
use it. Even if it comes from a craggly old lady who lives in a tree stump
up on a scary mountain. Can the results of checking out obscure sources be
worse than going blind, having all your limbs lopped off and dying of kidney
failure?????

To discount alternative medicine just because it doesn’t coincide with what
a Dr. says is an exercise in apathetic ignorance. There have been many
cures now accepted by the common medical world. They are embracing using
leaches on wounds again; they have found out they clean gangrene cleaner
than ANY modern chemical can, with no damage to perepheral tissue. There
are many other things that in their own time were nothing but old wives
tales, aspirin is one of them.

I agree there are people out there who might try to make a buck with almost
everything, but c’mon we live in a different world than back when they
plugged bootleg into a bottle and sold it to cure baldness, constipation,
and prevent cancer to boot. The big difference in this world is we are
better educated.

Chris

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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