Re: Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer?

"BDK" <****llkill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <g6a1js$u1o$2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, schultr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
>> In misc.health.alternative The One True Zhen Jue 
>> <Andrew_Kingoff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> : On Jul 24, 5:43?am, schu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Richard Schultz) wrote:
>> :> In misc.health.alternative Carole <hub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> :> : And when I say people should think for themselves and question 
>> authority,
>> :> : there are some who say they do. . .
>> :> : People fawn and grovel in front of experts and trust everything
they 
>> say.
>>
>> :> 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? 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?
>>
>> : The very same points have been made to you regarding acupuncture.
>>
>> I have come to the conclusions that the experts -- i.e. those who know 
>> how
>> to design an experiment properly and to re****t its results accurately
--  
>> are
>> correct, and that there is no evidence for the efficacy of acupuncture
>> beyond a placebo effect.
>>
>
> Acupuncture helped my dog tremendously, making him able to move much
> better right away after the first treatment, and regain the weight he
> had lost, all the while dying of cancer. When he died, he was 72 pounds.
> He had dropped to 61 before starting the treatments. He had great
> difficulty turning around, and had to do it like a semi trying to back
> up into a tight space. On the way home from the first treatment, he got
> up and made a 360 turn, and plopped back down. He hated the first couple
> of treatments, but towards the end, was thrilled to get them. He would
> fall asleep almost as soon as the first needle went in.
>
> It didn't save him, but it did make his last months a lot more
> comfortable. The only negative was the cost involved.
>
> I don't think the old guy knew what "placebo" meant.

And I have used cellsalts on my dog to fix up some of his minor health 
problems which included smelly ears, bad breath and licking of his feet 
which made them go raw, which incidentally was a condition which I saw a
TV 
vet recommended cortisone for which he said would shorten a dog's life but

what was the alternative?

Carole
www.cellsalts.net