Re: audio snakeoil!

From: john jardine (john_at_jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:22:34 -0000

"Kryten" <kryten_droid_obfusticator@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> "john jardine" <john@jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >
> > Hang my head and admit to designing a 'biostatic field generator' for a
> > customer.
>
> And what exactly is that?
>
> If it isn't generating anything, you've swindled your customer.
>
> > (hey, I've a car to pay for!).
>
> Perhaps you should invest in an ethics course.
> Or did you pay someone to sit the exam for you? :-O
> Bribing the examiner might work too :->
>
> You may feel you already have the best conscience that money can buy
<grin!>
>
> > To my mind harmless junk but looks
> > good, with the flashing lights, clicky things and field meshing.
>
> Doesn't that make you a knowing accessory to fraud?
>
> Your customer might be stupid enough to believe his own crap, but you know
> better.
>
> You call it harmless junk, but what if some lass finds a lump in her
breast
> or skin blemish. She goes to some quack, nothing happens, pays for more
> sessions, things get worse. Eventually goes to real doctor who diagnoses
> cancer.
>
> Cancer recovery rates fall rapidly the later they are caught,
> as do many other problems.
>
> Don't kid yourself, these quacks are harmful parasitic vermin.
>
>
> > The 'alternative' guy is doing business offering sessions with banks of
> > these things. Advertised with merest hints of 'tonic' 'pick-me-up',
> > 'vitalisation', the customers are happy to hand money over.
>
> Just because the victims are happy, that does not make it right.
> Nor should we allow quacks to prey on the gullible.
>
> > Have realised now that the general public don't really give a damn as to
> > whether quack methods have any technical merit. It seems a question of
how
> > well they feel they will be pampered to by the supplier of the service.
> > High
> > quality of pampering = high charges.
>
> Again, that is no reason they should be allowed to continue.
> I've known doctors and nurses, they work bloody hard to deliver real care.
> It is outrageous that people waste their money on quacks instead.
>
> > It's a quality of life thing,
>
> Conning people does not improve quality of life.
>
> > the equipment and machinery is simply stage dressing.
>
> This is not theatre, this is props for con men.
>
> > Just the same idea as a doctors 'bedside manner' or paying a
> > therapist to listen to you talk, or using those bottles of 'good'
> > bacteria
> > as advertised on telly.
>
> If you want to pay extra to have more bedside manner, pay a doctor.
> If you want to pay extra to have emotional counsel, pay a therapist.
> They sell the real service they provide.
>
> Don't give money to crooks.
>
> > Real problems turn up when conmen start claiming they can cure illness.
>
> They are conmen, and they push their claims as far as they can.
> If you are not ill, there is no reason to consult them.
> They even use the term "wellness" to avoid the legally significant word
> "health".
>
>
> Richard the Troll said modern medicine was no nearer the answers than the
> man in the moon.
> Obviously he hasn't checked out how life expectancies have increased with
> modern medicine.
> For most of human history, you were lucky to live to be forty.
>

I know what you are saying but ...
Conmen abound in all walks of life. They are liable to turn up anywhere.
Natures parasites feeding off the weak and infirm.
Although I've no interest in the subject, the 'Alternative healing' people
I've come across have without exception been honest, honourable and totally
sincere in their beliefs.

I would suggest that worse damage is wreaked daily by our much revered
captains of British industry, who through incompetance, greed, neglect and
lack of care, are responsible for more daily death and injury than all the
new age therapists and healers be accused of over the past ten years.
One high profile college in London is now allowed to teach Creationism.
Obviously can't be a scam as the government supports it. Or can it?.
The alternative medicine = 'conmen', group stereotyping label, is in the
same order as saying all British Muslims are rabid fundamentalists.

Who is pure enough of soul to point the finger?.

It's all a question of degree. I don't claim a monopoly on some kind of
fixed, god given morality, or even set myself up as a fixed arbiter of taste
and decency.
There's worse things at sea.
Many contractors object to doing any work for the military or their sub
contractors. Some object to biochemical work because of the animal testing
or 'dual use' aspects. Others don't like the oil and motor companies for
their usage of natural resources.
Engineers can also be picky wrt the security services and surveillance
industries, police, medical, legal, you name it and someone will object.
They're just human. If we all sung off the same *** then there would be no
industry out there.

To be sure of a place at that golden table stationed on the high plateau of
those of impeccable morals and noble hearts then surely we'd all be spending
our time designing naff aids for the disabled.
Even then I would suspect the disabled would much prefer just to be getting
on with their lives even if it included paying for a bit of alternative
healing.
regards
john