[LINK] electromagnetic fields effect brain activity

[Alan L Tyree]

On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:18:25 +1100
Jan Whitaker <jwhit at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

> At 11:40 AM 9/01/2007, Stewart Fist wrote:
> >The idea was also promoted by the tobacco companies -- suggesting
> >that environmental smoke in offices may have a protective effect
> >against cancer-causing air pollution.  And by some water polluting
> >companies who dumped toxic waste into aquifers.
> 
> Sounds like the same self-serving cods wallop (my spell checker said 
> these are two words, not one, but I and it may be wrong) that I heard 
> on local ABC this morning. CHOICE is doing an expose on the 
> non-evidence for the support of the effectiveness of herbal cures 
> like aloe vera and lavender oil. A caller who was obviously a 
> 'user'  if not a seller of these products rang the show later and 
> took poor Indira Naidu to task for bias toward the medical 
> establishment. I had to laugh because the caller couldn't see her own 
> bias when she 'swore' by the positive impact of these 'cures' based 
> on some pseudo-'science' examples comparing the effects of potato 
> skins on healing burns with no scars and no pain in 15 minutes. Of 
> course she wouldn't listen to the show's compare, Lindy Burns (no 
> pun, real name), who asked why scientific tests would be so wrong? 

Am I the only one here old enough to remember the Club of Rome? Of
course, those weren't scientific tests, they were computer models. Like
most of the "scientific" predictions of today.

Alan


> The caller was so exasperated! Of course not everything that is good 
> can be measured!
> 
> I nearly peed myself! There's no debating illogic with some people 
> who truly 'believe'. (George Bush et al come to mind as well.)
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
> Jan Whitaker
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