I just want to go on record as having a right brain…
but is not Evolution still a “theory” ???
So is gravity. It doesn’t mean “hypothesis” when used in this context. :rolleyes: Come on, can’t you do better than sound bites from the Creation Museum pamphlets or the Liberty University debate team handbook?
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Now about those stray quarks some of you physicist-types are letting loose around here. I do believe they are causing cognitive decline in some posters. I have heard they may actually create prions and lead to “Mad Cow On COTH” disease.
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not quite. Actually Mad Cow Purdy himself called me on the telephone. I’m a whacko magnet for some reason. Was pretty entertaining. He said in my area, it’s an interaction between high manganese, eletromagnetism from tectonic forces and organo- phospate insecticides. He wanted me to pick him up in Denver and drive him around CO and sample pine needles and elk droppings. I declined. Was a hoot for an hour; after week and surely my brain would run out my ears and my body would have to be incinerated at 2000 F, along with the local elk.
This thread is funny, too.
For those who think that science is becoming unpopular, read A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller. SF classic.
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So is gravity. It doesn’t mean “hypothesis” when used in this context. :rolleyes: Come on, can’t you do better than sound bites from the Creation Museum pamphlets or the Liberty University debate team handbook?[/QUOTE]What are Creation Museum and Liberty University? I have no idea … ???
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But how much improvement did untreated subjects show? Or those treated conventionally? How did the investigators define “improvement”? For how long did improvements remain? What was the status of the animals six months later? Inquiring minds want to know. Do you have the full citation, or did you just read the abstract?[/QUOTE]I posted the entire article. Did you not see that?
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In my case, I’m told by those who knew my as a youngster that it’s congenital. Therefore, I blame my parents. 
Left brained thinkers can’t handle NO-brained thinking. And if you’re putting your pet theories in the “right brain” category, well, that’s fine, but then you’d better go back and edit your first post where you tried to trot out some stinky left-brained scientific evidence to support it. :)[/QUOTE]Hey – I just posted a study. That’s all. I know of some people who have gone on with this treatment with success; I did NOT have success with it. shrugs ???
Thanks for the heads-up, I had not seen the full study link.
So it appears that nearly half of the subjects were diagnosed without the benefit of any bloodwork, just based on their appearance and symptoms. The age of approximately 1/3 of the subjects was unknown. (WTF?)
There was NO control group.
Their definition of “excellent response” was defined as “symptoms disappearing completely”, and yet they do not specify which symptoms these are, nor do they give any numerical measurements of anything. Just subjective improvement, I guess. 
But I loved the fact that they mixed up the remedies in Vodka. :lol:
I would have to give it a pretty poor grade if I had my “critical review of the literature” hat on. No control, no randomization, no definition of either symptoms OR response, and half the cohort had no firm diagnosis, while a third of the subjects were of unknown ages.
And there are way too many misspellings. D minus.
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Thanks for the heads-up, I had not seen the full study link.
So it appears that nearly half of the subjects were diagnosed without the benefit of any bloodwork, just based on their appearance and symptoms. The age of approximately 1/3 of the subjects was unknown. (WTF?)
There was NO control group.
Their definition of “excellent response” was defined as “symptoms disappearing completely”, and yet they do not specify which symptoms these are, nor do they give any numerical measurements of anything. Just subjective improvement, I guess.
But I loved the fact that they mixed up the remedies in Vodka. :lol:
I would have to give it a pretty poor grade if I had my “critical review of the literature” hat on. No control, no randomization, no definition of either symptoms OR response, and half the cohort had no firm diagnosis, while a third of the subjects were of unknown ages.
And there are way too many misspellings. D minus.[/QUOTE]Oh well. 
It is what it is. Vodka is used frequently for mixing herb tinctures and homeopathy BTW … tastless, odorless, alcohol.
So, you still didn’t tell me what the Creation Museum and the Liberty University are?
so, wanted to ask – what about syncope with standing up too fast due to low BP? I’ve been told “there’s 'nothing that can be done. Just have to learn to ‘live with it’.” ??? My BP is ‘high’ when it gets to 120 over 70. ‘Normal’ for me is 90/67 or thereabouts. Contrary to inheriting high BP from both parents and grandparents! ??? Go figure. And yeah – we’re at the cocktail party and you’re the “Doc” of the party …
haha dinosaur callabus hahaha
and i thought i was thick hahaha
it has 4 legs a head and a tail haha
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haha dinosaur callabus hahaha
and i thought i was thick hahaha
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Wow – and that’s adding to a mature conversation! ???
I once saw a doctor a long time ago who held glass vials full of various substances under my chin while he pushed down on my arm to measure my strength.
The idea he said… was that when a substance that my body needed was in one of the vials, my arm would be stronger and it would be harder to push down, but if the vial contained a substance I was allergic to, my arm would be weaker…
So I asked the doctor why he didn’t just use some kind of weighing scale to determine the exact strength my arm had for the test, and he said nothing…
The bill for that visit was hundreds of dollars…
Later that year I saw a doctor who performed an ELISA allergy blood test, it was very accurate, and it was quite helpful in eliminating some of my allergies.
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I once saw a doctor a long time ago who held glass vials full of various substances under my chin while he pushed down on my arm to measure my strength.
The idea he said… was that when a substance that my body needed was in one of the vials, my arm would be stronger and it would be harder to push down, but if the vile contained a substance I was allergic to, my arm would be weaker…
So I asked the doctor why he didn’t just use some kind of weighing scale to determine the exact strength my arm had for the test, and he said nothing…
The bill for that visit was hundreds of dollars…
Later that year I saw a doctor who performed an ELISA allergy blood test, it was very accurate, and it was quite helpful in eliminating some of my allergies.[/QUOTE]
You could have done the “Kinesiology” yourself for free.
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Wow – and that’s adding to a mature conversation! ???[/QUOTE]
goood isnt it haha young at heart i is maybe i will live longer haha
My impression of this thread:
First poster, “Hey did you hear about Mad Cow Disease going around?”
Second Poster, “What do I care? I’m a helicopter!”
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My impression of this thread:
First poster, “Hey did you hear about Mad Cow Disease going around?”
Second Poster, “What do I care? I’m a helicopter!”[/QUOTE]
lol your funny haha
gone a long way since the original post haha
So if you’re fainting from low BP, that counts as “symptoms”. The only real solution is to get up slowly, keep yourself tanked up with fluids, and add lots of salt in the diet, assuming no compelling reason to avoid that. There are a couple of medications to force the BP up, but they’re not particularly pleasant to take.
As to inheriting BP–often in women it is simply a matter of “when”, not “if”. The most typical “when” being around age 70. So don’t count out the hypertension just yet. I know mine will hit me around then . . . assuming the stress doesn’t get me first.
The Creation Museum and Liberty University–you can google them. Fundamentalist Christianity at its most bizarre and strident, complete with denial of science and a good thrashing of the importance of education. :no: Jesus would roll over in his grave (well, you know what I mean) if He saw the foolishness being perpetrated in His name. :eek:
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My impression of this thread:
First poster, “Hey did you hear about Mad Cow Disease going around?”
Second Poster, “What do I care? I’m a helicopter!”[/QUOTE]
Third Poster, “Mad Cow Disease is caused by Helicopters…”
Forth Poster, “show me the research indicating that Mad Cow Disease is caused by Helicopters”.
Fifth Poster, “I have a helicopter that I use to spray my crops, and when I fly it over the Cows it makes them mad”.
I love COTH.
