Subject: Re: Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer?
Author: Richard SchultzDate: 24 Jul
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In misc.health.alternative Carole <hubbca@iimetro.com.au> wrote:
:> Has it ever occurred to you that a person might be able to think for
:> himself and come to the conclusion that the experts are correct?
: When you've been taught what to think, and the rules to use to achieve an
: outcome, what is left for you to make an independent decision?
I wasn't taught *what* to think. I was taught *how* to think. There
is a big difference. I have pointed out to you that demonstrating the
fundamental flaws in the "cell salt" theory is not a matter of "thinking
for oneself." It is a matter of *doing an experiment* the results of
which are not open to dispute.
:> Has it ever
:> occurred to you that if you know nothing about a subject, the odds that
:> thinking for yourself is going to lead you to any conclusion that is even
:> close to be correct are very, very, very small?
: Does it ever occur to you that the people who know so little about a subject
: are those who have been taught corrupted science?
You don't know *anything* about science, by your own admission. You have
no way of knowing whether the science I have been taught is "corrupted"
or not.
Unlike you, I have actually gone into a lab and done experiments. If the
atomic theory is wrong, and if classical physics is not a reasonable
approximation for calculating the motions of bodies traveling at velocities
that are low relative to the speed of light, then none of the results of the
experiments that I did for my Ph. D. can be made to make any sense. If
quantum mechanics is wrong, then none of results of the experiments I did
for my postdoc (and in my lab at Bar-Ilan) make any sense.
Unlike you, I know something about chemistry, and I can explain what happens
when something burns. I know the difference between "oxidation" and
"reduction" and that the oxidation states of elements as they are found within
the body is not necessarily the same as those of elements as they are found
in the remains of a body that has been burned. For example, the mechanism
by which hemoglobin works is fairly well understood, and it depends on the
iron atoms in the heme groups being in the reduced state. "Methemoglobin,"
which contains iron in the ferric state, cannot transport oxygen.
: And has it ever occurred to you that the pharmaceutical business with
: disease has hijacked medical science and suppress any cures that they can't
: make money out of?
How could they do that? How have they succeeded in suppressing, say, you?
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Richard Schultz schultr@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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"You don't even have a clue about which clue you're missing."