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From: tjs@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: A (hopefully temporary) regression
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Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 16:21:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 18 16:21:41 1985
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Reply-To: tjs@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions)
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I have been following net.med for almost a year now, Mr Banks and Mr Bullard
have just brought it to the lowest level I have ever seen it at.  I had hoped
that we had a mutual respect for each other as intellegent people expressing
opposing views for the benifit of all.  However, it seems that I am thought of
as a total fool by the above pair.  Note their responce to statements by myself
to which I offered references on request:


From Gordon Banks:
>This is all utter nonsense.  I challenge you to provide even
>one scientific study that substantiates any of the above points.
>I'll look it up if it is in a regular refereed journal, but not if
>it is in the Watchtower or some crank newsletter or book.
>The anti-flouridation campaign has been a favorite of Birchers
>and fundamentalist groups for many years, and is nonsense.


From Carter Bullard:
>	This is pure bull****!!!!!
>	Absolutely wrong. WRONG, wrong, not right, false.
>	You just made this statement up to give yourself some sense of
>	   credibility.  It is completely wrong.  There is no such study,
>	   there is no fact in your statement whatsoever.  Human studies
>	   after WWII have shown this to be complete bull****.  This is
>	   what we are all screaming about.  You make this stuff up, and
>	   then try to use it as evidence to justify your warped view of
>	   biology and medicine. 

It seems that Gordon will simply trash out any data that disagrees with his
beliefs and Carter has a serious problem.  How can you know that I made this
up?  It is information from the book "Life is a Flow" by Paul Brenn.  
I will lower myself this time only long enough to call you a liar.

I hope future discussions will remain on a higher level as befits intellegent
people.  I apologize to others on the net for posting this non-med article.
And I ask that in the future name-calling be sent to net.flame (I don't read
that group).

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