Re: How scientific are orthodox cancer treatments? by Walter Last

From: Orac (orac_at_wabcmail.com)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:10:48 GMT

In article <8P7Tc.15447$nx2.3164@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
 "sty" <dehart12345@earthlink.net> wrote:

> "David Wright" <wright@clam.prodigy.net> wrote in message
> news:Tu7Tc.2757$Y94.353@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
> > In article <wy3Tc.23467$Jp6.14486@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
> > sty <dehart12345@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >"Jeff" <kidsdoc2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > >news:cficli$4o4@library1.airnews.net...
> > >
> > >> > >
> > >> > > The survival rate with alternative treatment only (or no
> treatment --
> > >> same
> > >> > > thing) is about 0%.
> > >>
> > >Jeff, this line is 100% bull***. You know it is a lie, why did you post
> it?
> >
> > Actually, for some types of cancer it's very accurate. Childhood
> > leukemias, for example. Indeed, for most cancers. If you have
> > counterexamples, well, I'm all ears.
> >
> > -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
> > These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
> > "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
> > were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> If examples were posted, you and a few others here would moan about not
> being done in a controlled lab or some such crap.

Try us. Show us your best evidence.

But you never do. You prefer to whine that you won't be treated fairly,
because doing so absolves you of the usual requirement in a debate to
provide evidence to back up your assertions.

>I do believe that you or
> one of the other antis here would try to get the person arrested if they
> told about healing cancer.

OK, now you're getting hystrionic. Do try to take a chill pill here.

>So.... I guess you will need to get out there and
> find the truth. You will not find it by searching on the internet. Nor will
> you find it by asking your doctor. You will find it out there in real life
> with real people. I do understand that you have little experience and do not
> really understand how to contact real people, but you must do so to get to
> the real truth. Good luck.

I consider myself a real person. So, I daresay, does David Wright. What,
specifically, makes one person a "real person" and another not a "real
person"? Please tell us.

Or are "real people" only those who agree with you when it comes to alt
med? 

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Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."
            |
            |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you
            | inconvenience me with questions?"