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From: counselo@uvm-gen.UUCP (Counselor)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Scientific Study proposed
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 09:42:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 09:42:59 1985
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Enough Bickering!!!! From the way you go back and forth, precious few 
of you have ever taken a class in logic/debate. I am offended by Walt
Stolls religious awe of principles which were set down by the chinese
several thousand years ago. I am equally offended by the "rational" 
community invoking "Scientific Method" like some blind, dumb god and 
refusing to examine procedures which obviously work (like acupuncture)
...Excuse the flame, I am forgetting what I learned in Debate class,
I apologize for the above, There is however in all flame a little 
substance. I propose That the proponents of the scientific method 
devise and carry out a study to prove to themselves whether Dr. Stoll's
advice is correct or not. As I presume that there is nothing in his 
proposed diet that will kill you, and as he claims that results are
fairly immediate, I would suggest a time frame of a month. I there are
no results after 1 month, then you will have just eaten some funny food.
If there are, I would sincerely hope that Dr. Stoll would be enough of
a gentleman not to say I told you so, and that the rest of the net would
be polite enough to recognize the results of the study without alot of
bickering. 
So, how about it folks? Why doesn't someone out there devise a set of 
(scientific) guidelines for carrying out this experiment. It could either
be run informally among the net members (respones via mail), or it could
be run simultaneously in several different locations around the country 
(or world). This would give us several sets of data to compare, and avoid
the cry of "but can the results be replicated?".
It is my hope that the protagonists of the scientific method have enough
faith in it, to let it decide whether Dr. Stoll is correct.
I apologize again for any flames that may have singed people. Please 
respond to the experiment suggestion, not to the extraneous verbiage.

                                   -Doug Nelson