Minutus

The Internet is a ginorous information resource. It is just too much information for one person to grasp. Speed reading would help, and I encourage my son to practice speed reading every day. But even speed reading is not enough. There must be another way to wade through the mountains of Internet information in order to find what is useful and what is not.
Practical epistemology may help. Epistemology is that section of philosophy that studies how it is that we know things. Given that every thing that we know via the Internet comes down to what someone else has told us or shown us, all of the things that we "know" via the Internet really comes down to who we can trust, who has credibility.
Recently pharmaceutical companies stopped putting mercury compounds in vaccines. Mercury is one of the world's deadliest, most painful, and most brutal poisons. Can you ever trust someone so stupid as to put mercury compounds in vaccines? Nothing that pharmaceutical companies say should ever be trusted by any thinking person. Their creds have dropped to zero. They now say that they not longer put mercury in vaccines; this implies that they used to put mercury in vaccines. And this was recently, not circa 1907. Can you ever trust anything that they say again? Should you ever trust anything that they say again? Turns out that they are even lying about that; some vaccines still have mercury put in them. Just how many lies and stupid, harmful things do a group of people have to commit before we will stop trusting them. When it comes to trustworthiness, pharmaceutical companies are the epistemological equivalent of ISIS.
And if we stop trusting the pharmaceutical companies, then the entire medical field becomes suspect, because pharmaceuticals are just about all that they do.
Roger Bird

Not so.
There are peer reviewed medical studies on illnesses that never mention drugs, and they are worldwide and collected at PubMed, with summaries free there, and ful text for a fee. Not all good information is free - it cost big money to figure out.

Other internet reports are made by properly qualified individuals who put their name behind what they say, and show what credetials they have to qualify them to say it.

MOST people are making the mistake of assuming that if it is on the iternet it is worth reading and believing.
THAT is a naiive mistake, but most people make it'.

Just look how often someoe here has posted 1920 out of date theories or scientific "findings" in microscopy supposedly made by a priest if you bother to look for the credentials. Maybe a highly qualified priest?
But since when does that make a chemist. ANd since when could 1920 microscopes resolve any worthwhile findings.
The author needs qualifications in the correct area, with the instrumentd and techniques that have credibility in the current year and not creds from a degree mill either.

I read nothing on the internet before checking who (if anyone) has their name behind it, (author no stickee de neck out for their words, then words not worth da paper not written on) ....and I need to know before reading it, what gives them any knowledge or authority on the subject. If I am not happy witih author info, or they hide behind something like "WebMD" with no author name sticking out a personal neck behind their claims - I do not read it, total waste of time.

Nmaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.Furryboots.info
(Info on Feline health, genetics, nutrition & homeopathy)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

I guess you missed the part about my distinguishing between medical diagnosis, which I rate as good to excellent, and medical treatment, which for acute and traumatic problems like injuries is second to none and degenerative diseases, which is worst than nothing. Or perhaps I am missing something here.
Roger Bird
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From: minutus@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Irene de Villiers furryboots@icehouse.net [minutus]
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2015 9:54 AM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Practical Epistemology and vaccines
Not so.
There are peer reviewed medical studies on illnesses that never mention drugs, and they are worldwide and collected at PubMed, with summaries free there, and ful text for a fee. Not all good information is free - it cost big money to figure out.

Other internet reports are made by properly qualified individuals who put their name behind what they say, and show what credetials they have to qualify them to say it.

MOST people are making the mistake of assuming that if it is on the iternet it is worth reading and believing.
THAT is a naiive mistake, but most people make it'.

Just look how often someoe here has posted 1920 out of date theories or scientific "findings" in microscopy supposedly made by a priest if you bother to look for the credentials. Maybe a highly qualified priest?
But since when does that make a chemist. ANd since when could 1920 microscopes resolve any worthwhile findings.
The author needs qualifications in the correct area, with the instrumentd and techniques that have credibility in the current year and not creds from a degree mill either.

I read nothing on the internet before checking who (if anyone) has their name behind it, (author no stickee de neck out for their words, then words not worth da paper not written on) ....and I need to know before reading it, what gives them any knowledge or authority on the subject. If I am not happy witih author info, or they hide behind something like "WebMD" with no author name sticking out a personal neck behind their claims - I do not read it, total waste of time.

Nmaste,
Irene
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.Furryboots.info
(Info on Feline health, genetics, nutrition & homeopathy)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

have you read this years fly vaccine insert... and on the box. they have definitely NOT stopped putting mercury in vaccines
vicki

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I guess you missed the part about my distinguishing between medical diagnosis, which I rate as good to excellent, and medical treatment, which for acute and traumatic problems like injuries is second to none and degenerative diseases, which is worst than nothing. Or perhaps I am missing something here.

Roger Bird
________________________________

From: minutus@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Irene de Villiers furryboots@icehouse.net [minutus]
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2015 9:54 AM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Practical Epistemology and vaccines
Not so.
There are peer reviewed medical studies on illnesses that never mention drugs, and they are worldwide and collected at PubMed, with summaries free there, and ful text for a fee. Not all good information is free - it cost big money to figure out.

Other internet reports are made by properly qualified individuals who put their name behind what they say, and show what credetials they have to qualify them to say it.

MOST people are making the mistake of assuming that if it is on the iternet it is worth reading and believing.
THAT is a naiive mistake, but most people make it'.

Just look how often someoe here has posted 1920 out of date theories or scientific "findings" in microscopy supposedly made by a priest if you bother to look for the credentials. Maybe a highly qualified priest?
But since when does that make a chemist. ANd since when could 1920 microscopes resolve any worthwhile findings.
The author needs qualifications in the correct area, with the instrumentd and techniques that have credibility in the current year and not creds from a degree mill either.

I read nothing on the internet before checking who (if anyone) has their name behind it, (author no stickee de neck out for their words, then words not worth da paper not written on) ....and I need to know before reading it, what gives them any knowledge or authority on the subject. If I am not happy witih author info, or they hide behind something like "WebMD" with no author name sticking out a personal neck behind their claims - I do not read it, total waste of time.

Nmaste,
Irene
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.Furryboots.info
(Info on Feline health, genetics, nutrition & homeopathy)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."