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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Every MD's office needs a Chiropractor.
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 01:05:42 EDT
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> A second major factor in the reversal just was reported this past
> month: The spinal fluid (which we have always known was limited to the
> central nervous system--brain and spinal cord) flows all the way out
> to the tiniest tip of the tiniest peripheral nerve in the body.
> Apparently, the nervous system, both voluntary and autonomic, is not
> only electrical and chemical but a fluid dynamic system as well...

Are you sure the fluid isn't bile or catarrh?  Sorry to lose my cookies
here--I'm usually so restrained, preferring the high road of science to
the low humor (!) of sarcasm, but I think I've reached a critical buildup
of SOMETHING, and I think I'll feel better if I just let it up.  Excuse me.


Ah, MUCH better, though like all bile, it was rather bitter.  Seriously,
this has to be the best form of entertainment since I unsubscribed to
net.origins.  A little disquieting, however, given that Stoll is, if we are
to believe his signature, DR. Stoll, M.D..  How he can continue to call his
practice MEDICINE after such mangling of basic neuroanatony is beyond me.
I am beginning to see that these debates here on net.med are taking the
same kind of form that we see in net.origins and other arenas, namely, that
these so-called "holistic" practitioners (who are giving legitimate holists
a bad name) simply don't play by the rules of science and yes, medicine.
They pretend to use the tools of science, reason, experimentation,
repeatability, logic, but it is all a facade, an attempt to hoodwink the
less critical into thinking they deserve the same kind of respect and
consideration due to any serious pursuit.  Of course, the first to be
swayed are the perpetrators themselves.  The holes in their logic (is this
where "holistic" comes from?) are large enough to drive a Mack truck through,
their willingness to make wholesale assumptions about basic mechanisms based
on shreds of evidence or solely hypothesis, unmatched.  One wonders whether
Stoll could distinguish a metaphor from a melanoma.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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