Digest Number 1807

[Barbara Hamilton]

Hi Finrod,

Why don't you post this onto Google, or any search engine
site. I'm not technologically-minded, but if Randi can get
his 'quackbusting' org. so close to the top of the list if
you type in "homeopathy" on Google, then surely someone on
this list can give the other side of the story by getting
this as high or preferably higher than number six on the
list of hits. ABCHomeopathy have managed it. How about
it Finrod? Anyone ?

Best wishes, Barbara

Message: 18
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:04:24 -0000
From: "Finrod"
Subject: James Randi

Dear Colleagues

There is none so blind as those that do not want to see and
none so
deaf as
those who do not want to hear.

I think the only way to challenge such people is through a
personal
experience.

One cannot say to them let us treat you, because one is not
sure of
their
honesty.

However, one can challenge them to take part in a proving -
this is
what I
did to the columnist of The Guardian and in the end he
backed-off
without
taking part in the reproving and has not said anything
adverse about
homoeopathy since.

So if you think you can get him interested in taking part
in a
reproving of
some painful remedy, then I would look forward to it.

As far as the Horizon prog is concerned, I am sure that
some one
swapped the
samples (as probably Randi did to discredit Jacques
Beneviste in the
first
Nature investigation). What the programme did show was that
half of the
potentised WATER samples showed an UNEXPECTED property
against the test
materials (basophiles?) as did HALF of the test material.
No one
raised
this issue despite the fact that I immediately wrote to the
programme
to say
hey you are showing an unexpected reaction, there is a need
to double
check.

Rgds
Soroush
Message: 14
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:12:41 -0800 (PST)
From: "vcrepair@yahoo.com"
Subject: James Randi skeptical of homeopathy

I found this on James Randi page www.randi.org
where he is skeptical of homeopathy. James Randi
offers a million dollar prize for proof of the
paranormal. Could someone win that prize and prove
homeopathy?

www.randi.org February 20 2004
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[Simon King LCPH MARH]

I have looked at the quackbuster site and cannot understand how it gets
such high ranking
The only explanation I can think of is high number off hits, but with
the money behind it it has probably had an expert do something - but
what?
Any thoughts anyone?
Hasn't anyone set up a quackbusterbuster
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[Christine Wyndham-Thomas]

Counters can be manipulated. You can use your own figures and alter them
any time you want.

Christine

[Christine Wyndham-Thomas]

Sorry Simon, ignore my previous mail. I now see what you mean.

Getting a high ranking in a search engine doesn't mean you're getting the
most hits.

Search enigines go by the number of times a word is repeated - at least
that's my understanding of it.

When you produce a website, there's a section where you put in the title of
that page, underneath that is another section for including "keywords" used
on that page. When a search engine searches for words that a person has
typed into one of its search boxes, the pages that have the most number of
words it's searching for will appear near the top. It doesn't mean it has
the most number of hts.

Christine Wyndham-Thomas
www.dogsonholiday-uk.com/ftp

[Simon King LCPH MARH]

So google has been fooled?
SK
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[Simon King LCPH MARH]

OK

I'd been told if a word is repeated too often you get marked down
?

But oads of sites have similar keywords
OK but keywords can also work against you Id been told if theyre
overdone?
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[Sheri Nakken]

Its' probably the number of links TO it.
That is what really helps ratings.
Sheri

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[Simon King LCPH MARH]

That's what I'd been told but I don't see that many links, (compared tp
other sites)am I looking in the wrong place?
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[Simon King LCPH MARH]

thanks for the explanation
SK
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