Klarinet Archive - Posting 000764.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: blow out
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 18:08:10 -0400

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.edu>
Date: Sunday, May 16, 1999 12:10 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] re: blow out

>
>> Anecdotal information is not evidence!
>
> Not so! It simply isn't "objective scientific" evidence. A
>significant number of medical and pharmiceutical breakthroughs have
>occurred becuse researchers took so-called "folk cures" seriously. Well,
>here is significant anecdotal evidence that SOMETHING called "blow-out" is
>occurring.

Investigations have gone both ways. Several folk cures did lead to major
pharmeceutical breakthroughs while others were finally proven to be nothing
but a fairy tale. Anecdotal (i.e. subjective) evidence can only act as in
incentive
for a properly conducted investigation. It can not PROVE anything.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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