Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbncc5.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Every MD's office needs a Chiropractor. Message-ID: <358@bbncc5.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 01:05:42 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncc5.358 Posted: Wed Aug 14 01:05:42 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 01:09:09 EDT References: <2047@ukma.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 35 > 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 {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbnccv.ARPA