Re: Clamping baby's cord - is baby still breathing through it?

From: Hillary Israeli (hillary_at_hillary.net)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:12:17 +0000 (UTC)

In <81adbb66.0406201233.1b55acec@posting.google.com>,
P Harris <patberto@frontiernet.net> wrote:

*anywhere, in any study, in any field of life. It is not possible, from
*a philosophical standpoint even, to prove that ANYTHING truly causes
*ANYTHING else.

Do you think Koch's postulates prove causation of infectious disease for a
given pathogen? If not, what is your alternative explanation? Seems darn
near impossible to fulfill those postulates without the organism causing
disease! 

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