Bravo! Well-written and exhaustively-researched, as usual, Acci. Seriously, I worry about you sometimes. Still, correct on all points and then some.
My personal past-time with the supporters of miracle cures and other quackery is to go through and count the logical and debate fallacies. “Hmmm,” I say, “Let’s see what we have here.. Argument from Ignorance.. Demanding Negative Proof.. Ooh.. reductio ad Hitlerum with a pre-emptive anti-Godwin.. That’s good…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies is a good reference for anyone wishing to argue on the Internet. If you can argue with someone’s position, without using *ANY* of those fallacies listed, then your position will be a very strong one.
Yeh, but I bought it and it worked!! This forum is so closed minded, you all think conventional medicine is the only answer. Science doesn’t know everything! I used these products on my dead rabbit and it came back to life, so there.
Yeh, but I bought it and it worked!! This forum is so closed minded, you all think conventional medicine is the only answer. Science doesn’t know everything! I used these products on my dead rabbit and it came back to life, so there.
Actually, your mom just went out and got a new rabbit. Mr Bunnsy is buried under the rose bushes in the back, and the new one is more appropriately *Mrs* Bunnsy.
I have to admit it would be hard to put one over on him. I don’t have near the patience he does in researching and expounding on the stuff our local nutjobs come up with. Gotta give him credit for that.
