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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Tea
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 18:55:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 18:55:37 1985
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> > There is a
> > clear correlation between drinking bush tea and cancer of the
> > esophagus.  It's probably the tannins.  
> 
> Sigh, references, please.  Whatever the risk, it must be very small,
> for I have never seen any such a claim in the admittedly conventional
> literature that I habitually read.  I am open to being convinced otherwise.
> Convince me, please.

Sigh, another condecending request for references.  The purpose seems
to always be the same.  To equate a lack of references with a lack
of truth.  While references are fine for academic works, and
would even be nice for the net, they are not the be-all and end-all
of information.  I, too, remember reading *somewhere* of *some*
study which showed a correlation of tannins with esophageal cancer.
Milk was found to inhibit it.  My references?  My own memory of
an article in *some* magazine.  If you want references, go look
them up in the library.  The net is not a library nor is it
an acdemic convention where finished papers are being presented.
It is more like a cocktail party.  What would you think of the
average person who kept berating people for not having references
at an *informal* party?

(Please forgive and typos, and other misc. faults in the use of
the language.  Consider this to be a sample of coloquial use
rather than literary use of the language...  I hope also to be
be forgiven for complaining about another persons opinion.  It
is just that the constant harping on references is getting
very old and very boring...)

-- 
E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems

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