Re: Dr. Harvey's and Salvato's work.

a_weisman_at_yahoo.com
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: 11 Jan 2005 06:39:32 -0800

brent wrote:
> "Lyme Disease Ancient Engine of an Unrecognized Borreliosis Pandemic"
> I think the title is to get people to wake the hell up.

I think it detracts from credibility when one uses titles intended to
or likely to cause panic in medicine. It just isn't considered a
legitimate thing to do. This isn't advertising. The merits of the work
are presumed to be enough without such tactics. It immediately creates
an unecessary problem in terms of credibility.

I know that might not seem significant to someone like you who does the
same thing, uses titles which are deliberately inaccurate and overstate
and mislead (such as N Iowa RECOMMENDS silver when they do no such
thing; or declaring that sexual transmission DOES occur when there is
and you later admit, no proof; such as claiming that silver is PROVEN
to work when later you admit that it needs study and hasn't been
proven; etc.).

See credibility matters.

You have none.

The authors damaged theirs by choosing such an alarmist title which it
is hard to justify from the paper itself, which otherwise is balanced
and very rational. But because of such tactics the baby gets thrown out
with the bathwater.

> The only input
> I'll put in is that we should NOT take this lightly. Why the hell do
> you think I talk about colloidal silver so much?

Because you profit from it. Because you are part of some commercial
cult. Because you're some kind of idiot or freak or both?

>I suggest someone ask
> that University why they mentioned it.

Well life being too short and too full of other things to do that I
care about, why don't you?

Or why don't you hold your breath and wait for me to do it?

>I'm assuming they are not a bunch of idiots.

Why do you assume that? Because the university is soooooo presitigious?
I mean it is Northern IOWA after all. Maybe they've got some good
agriculture and animal husbandry courses, but in the pantheon of higher
education there are lots of morons and much lesser lights.

>Sobering stuff to say the least. Appreciate the
> input...

The paper examines and debunks or calls into serious question a series
of widely accepted premises about Lyme and does so in a very balanced
and rational and methodical and apparently thorough fashion.

It would be nice if llmds did a great deal more such work.

Unfortunately they haven't.

I'd like to know a lot more detail than is provided though,
particularly how their patients are diagnosed, using what labs etc.

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