Aneirin
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I assume you are referring to the author of the website, Barry Groves Phd as a well known quack, well some refer to he as a quack, others do not, who is right and who is wrong, could it be even that if a person challenges the accepted thinking they then become in the medical field at least, a quack ? But a quack though in general understanding in the medical field is taken to mean someone who commits medical fraud, which is not the case according to the US courts who have ruled someone who is a called a quack and a fraud has to know they are misrepresenting the benefits and the risks involved, therefore I draw your attention to the fact that on the website concerned, where the original information was linked to, the site owner Barry Groves Phd, his mission statement is clear; All articles are fully supported by citations and references to mainstream, peer-reviewed medical, nutritional and other scientific journals to allow you to check that what is written here is correct. Furthermore, Barry Groves Phd, I can find no mention of him in QuackWatch, but as a person, I understand, if the information is correct and it is the very same Barry Groves Phd, he himself is a survivor of cancer, so in being that, he must have some knowledge of the disease, enough at least to research for himself, as many do when they are affected with disease. Other mention is made of his career to date, which extrudes a personal thought from me, which might have some bearing or not, but his resume mentions an RAF career, hmmm, I think, depending upon where he was employed within the RAF and what he came into contact with I think AVTUR, aviation grade turbine fuel, of which I know is not too dissimilar from diesel itself, though it being a more kerosene type fuel in smell, the efflux from gas turbines on an air station is very pervasive, everyone gets to smell it, with some more than others depending on their proximity to the aircraft. K-1 Kerosene, #1 diesel and JP4 jet fuel are closely related to each other, with the jet fuel allowed to have higher sulphur content than kerosene. To note, if one can smell an odour, one is breathing that odour in the form of a gas. So, I do not understand where you get your notion of well known quack from, could you elucidate ? If of course you are referring to the website owner, if you are not and are referring to the author of the controversial article on that website, was she a quack, who says, for her credentials are clear to see.
< Message edited by Aneirin -- 3/7/2010 3:58:42 AM >
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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