regarding "Immunohistopathology to guide multiple sclerosis treatment" check out "leaky gut syndrome" whereby inadequately digested macromolecules pass a compromised gut into the bloostream and cause the inflammatory/immune reactions on the nerves. The LGS is often associated with candidiasis, hypochlorhydria, pancreatic enzyme deficiencies and/or inadequate bile flow perhaps due to stones. With LGS and without adequate digestion, carbs, lipids and proteins each can cause prompt neuropathies non-too-subtle. Alternative med books on fibromylagia, chronic fatigue, yeast often cover this ground.
You might consider comprehensive digestive test analyses more than just "vitamin" testing. If the digestive system has broken down, you will presumptively suffer general malabsorbtion, requiring special nutrition for genuine repair and adequate intake.
Some of the B vitamins are directly involved in nerve cell repair of conductors and insulators and will be required at high levels.
I can not emphasize enough independent reading, research, thought and action. Those previous links are mere starting points. You might consider them as potential augmentation or therapy under knowledgeable professional supervision. Doctoryourself.com and LEF both give lots of references too.
Other technical fields categorically reject "vendor science" results as the last word as insisted in priestly pharma/medicine. (Perhaps if one adds "tobacco company" to "medical" or "pharmaceutical studies" the point is made) Individuals need to assess the situation, and make careful choices to prosper.
The various theories, evidence and remedial logic are lengthy but definitely not a waste of time. Here in the US the supplements may be somewhat less expensive. I am very thankful for the "alternative/ orthomolecular" medicine and consider them far more coherent therapeutic models in these areas.
The hopes you have for stem cells and genetic engineering may actually well be within your reach with proper biochemistry starting in your kitchen and aided by various supplements. Good reading.
Obviously, without islet regeneration, some insulin is required. But the right "alternative" treatments can have tremendous beneficial supportive effects especially with the other organs/systems (liver, digestion, immunity, heart, circulatory, kidney). I won't argue further, Darwin WILL settle the issue. So good luck. Again I would very carefully read those site links.
Sorry to hear about your MS. What kind of neuropathies and history constitute "true" MS seems to be debatable - if you get completely well it must not have been MS... However I personally know of turnarounds with some kind of severe neuropathies - not even residual sensations or numbness. (see Klenner related links below) *Big* oral vitamins especially B, minerals, antioxidants, major acid and enzymes digestive support, clean diet - real effort. For "too many" mega supplements, candy jars may help. eg. 3-10 kinds per jar, say one 1-2/day jar, a 3-4/day(meals) jar, a 3-4day (between meals) jar. As for supplement cost, quality is important and probably generally better than 5-10 years ago. Amazing what you can get for $1/day in individual supplements if you shop hard and buy for several months. Vitamin prices are all over the road map, by a factor of 10. For basic quality and low price, I check Sams/Costco and vitamins.com . If you find better deals, I am all ears...
I would also research books/articles on candidiasis, fibromylagia, liver detoxification (unplugging), orthomolecular and naturopathic use of vitamins, antioxidants and minerals. Unfortunately too many people have waited a short lifetime for ironclad "proof" that is activately obstructed. (see also "CODEX") Also reversal of MS/neuropathies is considered proportionate to time in condition with the Klenner protocols. *Intelligent* use of orthomolecular quantities of supplements is required and usually much safer than ANY drug i.e. aspirin. (maybe not fair, my college roommate's sister died of Reyes Syndrome, MD administered before "proof" on aspirin...) I like pioneering authors with dual doctorates, first in a chemical or bioscience then medicine, with egos in check (-95%) across a long, long career. Often great articles are surprisingly old, 1940s-70s stuff. Fortunately, the bedrock principles and facts of (bio)chemistry and physics do not change as frequently as the fads of patentable medicine and evanescent pharma marketing.
Carefully assess the real toxic limits of ALL supplements (retinols (A), B6, D, most minerals are usually the supplments to watch) for YOUR body and compare the potential benefit threshholds required. Idiosyncratic problems should be considered. Determine the best form of the supplement molecule, there are often several inferior ones. I look for B50 or B100 with 11 B-related compounds not just 8 (+PABA, inositol, choline). I totally avoid supplemental copper (my water pipes give plenty) and iron (dangerous for many males). Niacin (B3) needs at least equal or more C. For C and iron overload, google Walter Last. Mixed tocopherols are considered a better "vitamin E" with impaired organ functions, not the common synthetic or ester (alpha tocopheryl acetate, succinate) versions that cost only a little less. More Vitamin D3 is a special MS story with recent research.
As for anecdotes vs single vs double blind, unfortunately you often have to assess the evidence intuitively, carefully against multiple references, comparatively and with your accumulated experience and tests. Double blind can be useful, it is not the be-all, end-all claimed. A misconstructed test application (very frequent) is a bigger problem than degree of blinding (in my woods, we call it sandbagging a test - the real skill is being subtle enough that I might not catch you, if I am not allowed to run my own extensive tests), blinding o
hmmm, I was a little quick on the links about potential MRI abuse (my hot button about public promos & sales), and stirred a storm. Yes, those are type 2 links but the basic point about alternative answers with vitamers, minerals and enzymes, still applies for type 1, albeit less definitively. There are claims to slow the islet destruction and even some regeneration in some cases, lots of multiple organ support. Not specific to this discussion, I do like to read doctoryourself.com lef.org tldp.com mercola.com and uspto.gov
While MRI might be an interesting technique for limited research, as a potential routine public use, I worry that this is an advertising gimic. Big Med (Big Pharma) often dumps expensive protocols/studies (poisonous junk) on us instead of cost effective answers where there ARE positive actions that you can take cheaply, effectively. (pharmas: Damn it when the public wises up.) Do *your own testing* over the next few years then answer. And you do have to do your own research, as if your life depends on it, because it probably does. Most of you probably say it, now really go do it!
Type 1s: If I were in your shoes I might ask: (1) are there potential causes of the autoimmune inflammation (medical researchers *have* found dietary links in a number of cases, different researchers get different results - YOU will have to investigate & decide); (2) are there things that reduce islet inflammation (check on niacinamide, others), (3) are there things that will help protect your heart, kidneys, liver from damage (coQ10, alpha lipoic acid, ascorbates, mixed high gamma tocopherols, huge B vitamins, Se, Mg among a few ) ; (4) at the 99th percentile of successful survivors do they use personal restrictions that reduce incidents. In general one has to be careful about commercial conflicts of interest with pharmaceuticals and procedure oriented medicine because it is so bad now. My family has been screwed more than 75% by the MDs over 40 years, our biggest "saves" have been in the alternative world (orthomolecular medicine) with many striking successes. Unfortunately most Americans suffer a profound ignorance about observation, chemistry, science and biochemical nutrients.
those strips are a buck each... I see glucose tester strips at my Walmart for under 50 cents, if that helps any. for the neuropathies I would investigate alpha lipoic acid, big B vitamins esp B1 among several ingredients for the nephrons, I would investigate high gamma tocopherol mixtures, B2, CoQ10 among many others
This is not medical advice - I would suggest seeing naturopathic doctors with recognizable universities or accredited degrees and, most of all, DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK. DO not blindly trust anyone but don't just whine what can't be done - it simply means you are not researching in the right places. Medicine is a minefield - you have examine concepts and to look out for the evidence yourself.
I personally have known specialty chemical sales as a dirty business on mere millions and I have specified chemicals by the literal truckload. How about you? What kind of boy scouts do you think pharmas are over multibillion dollar sales? I have followed their story for 25+ years in medical journals, alt med, patents, WSJ and some personal contact.
Vitamins are an order of magnitude or more cheaper than insulins,
Yes. Also insulin may be a necessity, but I view it as something to be absolutely minimized. Most people don't do their homework or get good professional advice (often PhD or ND, sometimes MD). They often don't use enough, the right form or combination of vitamins, minerals and enzymes to succeed. Alternative medicine can make a huge difference and getting it right is non-trivial right now. I am not going to argue further, but Darwin is in play on this issue. So, good luck...
if it worked you would think it would be a fairly common treatment by now....
Most do think that but then it means they are not familiar with specialty chemical sales, especially
Don't be a Darwin awardee, do something smart, and cheap, to save yourself lots of misery, and save us (taxpayers) lots of unnecessary bills for misdirected medicine. Check these sites, how to prevent and reverse it:
http://doctoryourself.com/diabetes.htmlhttp://www.mercola.com/2002/apr/10/diabetes.htm
Cheap blood glucose tests at the discount stores, say $10-15 for the digital meter, $20-40 for the strips.
MRI for diabetes - a gold hammer for slicing the fat out of milk... no wonder we are going broke.
Our western, CO2 trophic climate crowd appears to studiously avoid, dismiss or denigrate all nonCO2 enhancing investigators or results. Non CO2 centric geologists and astrophysics have long suffered in the west. Apparently freedom of thought might actually be exerting itself in Siberia.
While recent US-Siberian weather experience might help both sides' gut feel, this wager nevertheless highlights a stark confrontation over mechanism and nature of climate change. I think it is great. Perhaps the real scientific process may at last actually begin to engage on "global warming" after years of herd mentality, "seize the means" opportunism, PC and academic incest. BTW, before any of you "flame on" - google/RTF issues referred by the Russians. It is an interesting bet: both sides clearly feel they have an advantage, and there is real risk - climate change is dicey. The Russians have assessed climate history on several items and are taking a ride on the next solar cycle - the bet it not as outrageous as a dyed-in-the-wool, born again GHG "warmer" might believe...
While it may seem easy to dismiss any FSU organization as a corrupt sock puppet, they often do have fundamentally different vantage points. And they can have guts, just ask any French or German...
This should be a non-starter. Even if you take the proposition at face value (ebook = new paper book price - avg resale), it too many has fatal flaws to name some obvious ones:
a) I want to read the text over the summer before, b) oops, dropped the course until...next semester, year, after year out; c) I read in the home, department, library, work (slow help desk), lobbies, etc I can't login; ( d) this is a foundation course for other courses, I need the reference, (e) this is a professionally useful book, I need the reference, (f) [will] have more than one computer or have a flakey computer, (g) It is good enough that I'll want to read parts again in 1, 3, 20 years. Attempted equity might have been (- print costs - shipping + server + "no fee" renewal circumstances), but Stallman is dead on target anyway.
People buying these unreliable DRM files (they sure aren't "books") deserve to flunk, their "carcasses" destined to enlighten others.
"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime..."
-- Robert Anson Heinlein
I think that Tommy Thompson should be reported as a ghostwriting co-author for "Satanic Verses". Perhaps an al-Queda searchbot will show the fallacy and dangers of this trojan chip...
Object lesson perhaps for less clueful non-MSFT "investors" that bought at over $4. For the egregiously guilty SCO officer scum, not really - they would need to already be in jail, NOT collecting salary, bonuses and expense accounts, then and now.
Mann's dismissal of parties attempting to reconstruct his results, in concert with the Nature editors, precisely is what the entire article and fuss was about in the first place. Mann, et al, is clearly a work that has not yet been verified by parties that apparently are willing and capable to do so on finite data sets with fixed computational routines. This replication step is how real agreement is formed in the sometimes white hot forges of science despite ongoing disagreement.
The peer review system is a fairly weak test, too often subject to "me too" agreement. You might look for Linus Pauling's joke that peers are people who pee together. Nature's editorial handling of the affair has not been an exemplar. Work where one is allowed to make sweeping "scientific" statements and then frustrate and duck the critics for 7 years is hardly "excellent work". Real science is often adversarial because of egos, institutional and financial interests rather than simple disagreement over incomplete information. Progress often lags the cutting edge of mankind by fractions or multiples of a century because of such monkey mischief. In my professional experience, facing your critics includes walking into a lynch mob of critics, 32:1. Excellence is walking out hours later with your hide attached, your results intact, your worst tormentors discredited to their face, mob dispersed. Mann, et al, with a sea of popular support, clearly falls short on this opportunity to respond.
An extra $1+ trillion per year wasted (inelastic energy markets can be really sharp and nasty) if on a mostly natural climate variation because of incredibly poor SCIENCE would not help matters. Show it convincingly. GW proponents have used a lot of loud and dirty politics with some clear misbehavior pushing it - not convincing behavior at all. Emphatic wish or belief doesn't make science, no matter how many times or how loudly you repeat it, as you do. It is crucial to get things this big "Right" and GW was born political.
In my professional experience, Michael Mann's "hockey stick" closed source drama has played on too long, too dismissively, too evasively to be an honest scientific discourse. Michael Mann needs to quit stonewalling and answer the damn questions. Barton's letters, even allowing for ugly partisan politics, seems to address this pressing problem for a publicly funded research paper that demands involuntary sacrifices from the whole population indefinitely. Before you yell moron again, did you go to a top 20 national university at 16, score 1500-1600? What advanced degrees or science awards have you won? Patents? Are you trying to displace 150 million tons of CO2 per year for a significant cost reduction?
I am not saying I know all ANSWERS. I am certain some GW posters here that think they do, don't have a clue. I am saying that my concerns about "not proven" on anthropogenic GW are not those of a lightweight political hack. May I suggest some work on your attitude, your GW research and your spelling.
Micheal Mann, his co-authors and his Nature editors, have responded inappropriately to independent efforts to rigorously re-analyze the basis of his much heralded GW "hockey stick" paper. After incisive reviews, Mann's results are highly questionable and he has been holding out on crucial data and programs that might well show scientific recklessness and bias. Since Mann's "hockey stick" is the rallying point for multi trillion dollar regulations that affect the health, wealth and freedom every American, or possibly every being, I think this unseemly action is not as unreasonable as it sounds. Mann needs to come clean. Mann's hiding out is causing the real problem - what if his results are simply horse hockey (BS)?
Was it HPD or one of the notorious speed trap "postage stamp" municipalities that the State troopers won't even record/honor their tickets? Years ago, one ticket only had the mailing address of a PO Box in the adjacent small town. I called, they were unprofessional and unreasoning scum. I looked up the political boundaries of the "city" and it was essentially 4 miles of I-45 lanes and a PO Box. Total scam, posted a 45 in a 70 mph low density area - should be nailed/removed for obstructing traffic. Even the newspapers said you could often ignore these tickets if they couldn't grab you. I was working out of the country, domiciled with my parents. These two assholes drove 200+ miles to bother my parents for about 1 minute. Tough luck guys. Although my parents were mildly worried and annoyed for me, I would love to know exactly what my father said to them (get off my property, polite discouragement, or just unpleasant?), he was smart (an engineer writing legal contracts on 70s energy) and could be really tough on assholes. Bothered nevermore.
Current medicine does not adequately diagose many disorders - lupus, liver & pancreatic cancer, digestive and organ disorders of many stripes.
Patent medicine is the bane of our health system, then and now. The FDA, a descendent of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, is a total captive of the pharmas. The pharmas have their fingers in EVERYTHING - med schools, international politics, regulators, fake/sandbagged drug tests, even my kids (*receiving* $$$$). Even now pharmas are lobbying all out to ban access to vital nutrients in CAFTA. The best selling drugs are often really dangerous and usually dispensed wholely unnecessarily. Statins (for cholesterol) that zonk your liver and co-Q10 production (cardiomyopathy in several years), oral antibiotics that trash your disgestive/immune system (killed everything...SIBO), proton inhibitors for "heartburn" in middle aged people who often have frank hypochlorhydria (too LITTLE acid) and now are open to infections that the acid should zap and depletes their pancreatic enzymes, recurring "antidepresssant" psychotic episodes in the news (remember Columbine HS?!), etc, etc. Unfortunately many MD doctors are highly educated, dogmatic souls that have missed the real science underneath the 20th century and now don't recognize symptoms familiar to the 19th century. Honestly, medicine on average has lagged science by 50-150 years for centuries. Unfortunately, technological gizmos are NOT science, and medicine is still lagging basic science by many decades and getting worse on generic biochemistry and deficiency/degenerative diseases. Read Linus Pauling, Abram Hoffer. Strongly biochemical based forms of "alternative medicine" (orthomolecular medicine, many naturopaths, ND) have really useful answers. Better answers. Don't be a Darwin Awardee - read and think for yourself. I suggest Lef.org and www.doctoryourself.com for alt med sites with good technical references for starters. Good Luck, reader-thinkers.
Our family's last two experiences with Disneyland: ~1996 our family group of 10, including elderly grandmother, was delayed 50 minutes entrance because gate wanted a 2nd set of sale documents (besides the "tickets") back at the hotel room. Never had that kind of bs elsewhere. I think Disney wasted $$$ of our time and patience for a mediocre experience tainted by vicious gate policies. Kid went to California, Disneyland with hs band 2 yrs ago came home sick and unimpressed. Save your money, and don't support greed-head facists, a real waste of money. I won't subscribe to ANY Disney product. Thaw Walt, chill out the rest the you. Gummy fingers for grimey grinches.
I have a neighbor with two African greys among other pets. No joke, one grey is named "Einstein". Among other mischief, Einstein likes to imitate its master's voice and commands, calling the golden retriever. Then Einstein laughs out loud at the disappointed dog to its face! Poor dog. Perhaps they should have named the grey "Loki", but then Einstein was known to have a sense of humor.
Anyone who is familiar with the cons/frauds that often pass for many lawyers or managers in the US today, recognizes this. Deny, deny, deny - insist, persist until (a) the complainer fades away in exhaustion or disgust, (b) the problem is over shadowed by another problem, (c) a miracle happens, say a clueless good Samaritan genuis fixes it or a government emergency clears it, etc, or (d) "something bad happens" - jail, termination, retirement or liquidation. SCO mgmt is obviously delaying (d) as long as possible. Another day is another expense account, another pay check and hoping for a miracle to bail out. Most of all another day of NOT reckoning.
Late in the American empire, literacy rates declined so much that by the early 21st century, 5 of the 9 US Supreme Court justices could not even read well enough to follow their basic job functions and user documentation in the Constitution. Faced with military and economic pressures in the Middle and Far East...
Interesting ploy, now they can share a piece of the pie with Apple, Sun and even Linux. But a day late and a dollar short. Why bother if (1) I can run my old Winders apps on wine, (2) I am so disgusted with MS security (lack of), prior practices etc, (3) potentially broken DRM, (4) I can get what I need for "free" or, at least, no continuing "stick up"grades. Frankly, I think MS should concentrate on getting ONE OS right.
Hopefully the Texas law will benefit small towns and quasi-rural areas that are traditionally un- or underserved by the "big boys", where in some cases, a communal, volunteer effort could bring real progress.
Overpriced goods created by invasive, statist laws are making less desirable elements rich whether counterfeit goods, drugs, prostitution etc. Making more draconian laws simply speeds us on the "-isms" road to decline and the dustbin of history if uncorrected. Good laws are self enforcing, virtue resists vice; we could wind up with neither.
Hey guys, RIAA members etc, simply overcharge. The lesson is when one buys any RIAA/MPAA sponsored work, legit or not, one drives up demand and pricing - you ride with bin Laden....;>
beware of the Government AND... the Insurance compnies. Surely won't be too long before you will rated or denied insurance(s) over your tanning booth data.
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You might consider comprehensive digestive test analyses more than just "vitamin" testing. If the digestive system has broken down, you will presumptively suffer general malabsorbtion, requiring special nutrition for genuine repair and adequate intake.
Some of the B vitamins are directly involved in nerve cell repair of conductors and insulators and will be required at high levels.
I can not emphasize enough independent reading, research, thought and action. Those previous links are mere starting points. You might consider them as potential augmentation or therapy under knowledgeable professional supervision. Doctoryourself.com and LEF both give lots of references too.
Other technical fields categorically reject "vendor science" results as the last word as insisted in priestly pharma/medicine. (Perhaps if one adds "tobacco company" to "medical" or "pharmaceutical studies" the point is made) Individuals need to assess the situation, and make careful choices to prosper.
The various theories, evidence and remedial logic are lengthy but definitely not a waste of time. Here in the US the supplements may be somewhat less expensive. I am very thankful for the "alternative/ orthomolecular" medicine and consider them far more coherent therapeutic models in these areas.
The hopes you have for stem cells and genetic engineering may actually well be within your reach with proper biochemistry starting in your kitchen and aided by various supplements. Good reading.
Obviously, without islet regeneration, some insulin is required. But the right "alternative" treatments can have tremendous beneficial supportive effects especially with the other organs/systems (liver, digestion, immunity, heart, circulatory, kidney). I won't argue further, Darwin WILL settle the issue. So good luck. Again I would very carefully read those site links.
I would also research books/articles on candidiasis, fibromylagia, liver detoxification (unplugging), orthomolecular and naturopathic use of vitamins, antioxidants and minerals. Unfortunately too many people have waited a short lifetime for ironclad "proof" that is activately obstructed. (see also "CODEX") Also reversal of MS/neuropathies is considered proportionate to time in condition with the Klenner protocols. *Intelligent* use of orthomolecular quantities of supplements is required and usually much safer than ANY drug i.e. aspirin. (maybe not fair, my college roommate's sister died of Reyes Syndrome, MD administered before "proof" on aspirin...) I like pioneering authors with dual doctorates, first in a chemical or bioscience then medicine, with egos in check (-95%) across a long, long career. Often great articles are surprisingly old, 1940s-70s stuff. Fortunately, the bedrock principles and facts of (bio)chemistry and physics do not change as frequently as the fads of patentable medicine and evanescent pharma marketing.
Carefully assess the real toxic limits of ALL supplements (retinols (A), B6, D, most minerals are usually the supplments to watch) for YOUR body and compare the potential benefit threshholds required. Idiosyncratic problems should be considered. Determine the best form of the supplement molecule, there are often several inferior ones. I look for B50 or B100 with 11 B-related compounds not just 8 (+PABA, inositol, choline). I totally avoid supplemental copper (my water pipes give plenty) and iron (dangerous for many males). Niacin (B3) needs at least equal or more C. For C and iron overload, google Walter Last. Mixed tocopherols are considered a better "vitamin E" with impaired organ functions, not the common synthetic or ester (alpha tocopheryl acetate, succinate) versions that cost only a little less. More Vitamin D3 is a special MS story with recent research.
For MS, these links may be especially interesting: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is _262/ai_n13675758/pg_1 http://www.townsendletter.com/May2003/klennerproto col0503.htm http://thecompounder.com/diseaseklennerpaper.html Personally I am injection adverse, and would use them as a last resort only after even larger oral trials.
As for anecdotes vs single vs double blind, unfortunately you often have to assess the evidence intuitively, carefully against multiple references, comparatively and with your accumulated experience and tests. Double blind can be useful, it is not the be-all, end-all claimed. A misconstructed test application (very frequent) is a bigger problem than degree of blinding (in my woods, we call it sandbagging a test - the real skill is being subtle enough that I might not catch you, if I am not allowed to run my own extensive tests), blinding o
looks like some wrong conclusions
While MRI might be an interesting technique for limited research, as a potential routine public use, I worry that this is an advertising gimic. Big Med (Big Pharma) often dumps expensive protocols/studies (poisonous junk) on us instead of cost effective answers where there ARE positive actions that you can take cheaply, effectively. (pharmas: Damn it when the public wises up.) Do *your own testing* over the next few years then answer. And you do have to do your own research, as if your life depends on it, because it probably does. Most of you probably say it, now really go do it!
Type 1s: If I were in your shoes I might ask: (1) are there potential causes of the autoimmune inflammation (medical researchers *have* found dietary links in a number of cases, different researchers get different results - YOU will have to investigate & decide); (2) are there things that reduce islet inflammation (check on niacinamide, others), (3) are there things that will help protect your heart, kidneys, liver from damage (coQ10, alpha lipoic acid, ascorbates, mixed high gamma tocopherols, huge B vitamins, Se, Mg among a few ) ; (4) at the 99th percentile of successful survivors do they use personal restrictions that reduce incidents. In general one has to be careful about commercial conflicts of interest with pharmaceuticals and procedure oriented medicine because it is so bad now. My family has been screwed more than 75% by the MDs over 40 years, our biggest "saves" have been in the alternative world (orthomolecular medicine) with many striking successes. Unfortunately most Americans suffer a profound ignorance about observation, chemistry, science and biochemical nutrients.
those strips are a buck each... I see glucose tester strips at my Walmart for under 50 cents, if that helps any. for the neuropathies I would investigate alpha lipoic acid, big B vitamins esp B1 among several ingredients for the nephrons, I would investigate high gamma tocopherol mixtures, B2, CoQ10 among many others
This is not medical advice - I would suggest seeing naturopathic doctors with recognizable universities or accredited degrees and, most of all, DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK. DO not blindly trust anyone but don't just whine what can't be done - it simply means you are not researching in the right places. Medicine is a minefield - you have examine concepts and to look out for the evidence yourself.
I personally have known specialty chemical sales as a dirty business on mere millions and I have specified chemicals by the literal truckload. How about you? What kind of boy scouts do you think pharmas are over multibillion dollar sales? I have followed their story for 25+ years in medical journals, alt med, patents, WSJ and some personal contact.
Vitamins are an order of magnitude or more cheaper than insulins, Yes. Also insulin may be a necessity, but I view it as something to be absolutely minimized. Most people don't do their homework or get good professional advice (often PhD or ND, sometimes MD). They often don't use enough, the right form or combination of vitamins, minerals and enzymes to succeed. Alternative medicine can make a huge difference and getting it right is non-trivial right now. I am not going to argue further, but Darwin is in play on this issue. So, good luck...
if it worked you would think it would be a fairly common treatment by now.... Most do think that but then it means they are not familiar with specialty chemical sales, especially
Don't be a Darwin awardee, do something smart, and cheap, to save yourself lots of misery, and save us (taxpayers) lots of unnecessary bills for misdirected medicine. Check these sites, how to prevent and reverse it: http://doctoryourself.com/diabetes.html http://www.mercola.com/2002/apr/10/diabetes.htm Cheap blood glucose tests at the discount stores, say $10-15 for the digital meter, $20-40 for the strips. MRI for diabetes - a gold hammer for slicing the fat out of milk... no wonder we are going broke.
While recent US-Siberian weather experience might help both sides' gut feel, this wager nevertheless highlights a stark confrontation over mechanism and nature of climate change. I think it is great. Perhaps the real scientific process may at last actually begin to engage on "global warming" after years of herd mentality, "seize the means" opportunism, PC and academic incest. BTW, before any of you "flame on" - google/RTF issues referred by the Russians. It is an interesting bet: both sides clearly feel they have an advantage, and there is real risk - climate change is dicey. The Russians have assessed climate history on several items and are taking a ride on the next solar cycle - the bet it not as outrageous as a dyed-in-the-wool, born again GHG "warmer" might believe...
While it may seem easy to dismiss any FSU organization as a corrupt sock puppet, they often do have fundamentally different vantage points. And they can have guts, just ask any French or German...
I would check these sites / recommendations out for MS: http://www.doctoryourself.com/ short version of protocol: http://www.townsendletter.com/May2003/klennerproto col0503.htm
I know several people whose various neuropathies had great benefit or disappeared. I would research this one as if my future depended on it. Go see a naturopathic doctor.
This should be a non-starter. Even if you take the proposition at face value (ebook = new paper book price - avg resale), it too many has fatal flaws to name some obvious ones: a) I want to read the text over the summer before, b) oops, dropped the course until...next semester, year, after year out; c) I read in the home, department, library, work (slow help desk), lobbies, etc I can't login; ( d) this is a foundation course for other courses, I need the reference, (e) this is a professionally useful book, I need the reference, (f) [will] have more than one computer or have a flakey computer, (g) It is good enough that I'll want to read parts again in 1, 3, 20 years. Attempted equity might have been (- print costs - shipping + server + "no fee" renewal circumstances), but Stallman is dead on target anyway. People buying these unreliable DRM files (they sure aren't "books") deserve to flunk, their "carcasses" destined to enlighten others. "Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime..." -- Robert Anson Heinlein
I think that Tommy Thompson should be reported as a ghostwriting co-author for "Satanic Verses". Perhaps an al-Queda searchbot will show the fallacy and dangers of this trojan chip...
Object lesson perhaps for less clueful non-MSFT "investors" that bought at over $4. For the egregiously guilty SCO officer scum, not really - they would need to already be in jail, NOT collecting salary, bonuses and expense accounts, then and now.
The peer review system is a fairly weak test, too often subject to "me too" agreement. You might look for Linus Pauling's joke that peers are people who pee together. Nature's editorial handling of the affair has not been an exemplar. Work where one is allowed to make sweeping "scientific" statements and then frustrate and duck the critics for 7 years is hardly "excellent work". Real science is often adversarial because of egos, institutional and financial interests rather than simple disagreement over incomplete information. Progress often lags the cutting edge of mankind by fractions or multiples of a century because of such monkey mischief. In my professional experience, facing your critics includes walking into a lynch mob of critics, 32:1. Excellence is walking out hours later with your hide attached, your results intact, your worst tormentors discredited to their face, mob dispersed. Mann, et al, with a sea of popular support, clearly falls short on this opportunity to respond.
In my professional experience, Michael Mann's "hockey stick" closed source drama has played on too long, too dismissively, too evasively to be an honest scientific discourse. Michael Mann needs to quit stonewalling and answer the damn questions. Barton's letters, even allowing for ugly partisan politics, seems to address this pressing problem for a publicly funded research paper that demands involuntary sacrifices from the whole population indefinitely. Before you yell moron again, did you go to a top 20 national university at 16, score 1500-1600? What advanced degrees or science awards have you won? Patents? Are you trying to displace 150 million tons of CO2 per year for a significant cost reduction? I am not saying I know all ANSWERS. I am certain some GW posters here that think they do, don't have a clue. I am saying that my concerns about "not proven" on anthropogenic GW are not those of a lightweight political hack. May I suggest some work on your attitude, your GW research and your spelling.
Micheal Mann, his co-authors and his Nature editors, have responded inappropriately to independent efforts to rigorously re-analyze the basis of his much heralded GW "hockey stick" paper. After incisive reviews, Mann's results are highly questionable and he has been holding out on crucial data and programs that might well show scientific recklessness and bias. Since Mann's "hockey stick" is the rallying point for multi trillion dollar regulations that affect the health, wealth and freedom every American, or possibly every being, I think this unseemly action is not as unreasonable as it sounds. Mann needs to come clean. Mann's hiding out is causing the real problem - what if his results are simply horse hockey (BS)?
Actually, according to the "Shell answer man" of the 1970s oil crisis, optimum gas mileage (mpg) is at 45 mph.
Was it HPD or one of the notorious speed trap "postage stamp" municipalities that the State troopers won't even record/honor their tickets? Years ago, one ticket only had the mailing address of a PO Box in the adjacent small town. I called, they were unprofessional and unreasoning scum. I looked up the political boundaries of the "city" and it was essentially 4 miles of I-45 lanes and a PO Box. Total scam, posted a 45 in a 70 mph low density area - should be nailed/removed for obstructing traffic. Even the newspapers said you could often ignore these tickets if they couldn't grab you. I was working out of the country, domiciled with my parents. These two assholes drove 200+ miles to bother my parents for about 1 minute. Tough luck guys. Although my parents were mildly worried and annoyed for me, I would love to know exactly what my father said to them (get off my property, polite discouragement, or just unpleasant?), he was smart (an engineer writing legal contracts on 70s energy) and could be really tough on assholes. Bothered nevermore.
Current medicine does not adequately diagose many disorders - lupus, liver & pancreatic cancer, digestive and organ disorders of many stripes. Patent medicine is the bane of our health system, then and now. The FDA, a descendent of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, is a total captive of the pharmas. The pharmas have their fingers in EVERYTHING - med schools, international politics, regulators, fake/sandbagged drug tests, even my kids (*receiving* $$$$). Even now pharmas are lobbying all out to ban access to vital nutrients in CAFTA. The best selling drugs are often really dangerous and usually dispensed wholely unnecessarily. Statins (for cholesterol) that zonk your liver and co-Q10 production (cardiomyopathy in several years), oral antibiotics that trash your disgestive/immune system (killed everything...SIBO), proton inhibitors for "heartburn" in middle aged people who often have frank hypochlorhydria (too LITTLE acid) and now are open to infections that the acid should zap and depletes their pancreatic enzymes, recurring "antidepresssant" psychotic episodes in the news (remember Columbine HS?!), etc, etc. Unfortunately many MD doctors are highly educated, dogmatic souls that have missed the real science underneath the 20th century and now don't recognize symptoms familiar to the 19th century. Honestly, medicine on average has lagged science by 50-150 years for centuries. Unfortunately, technological gizmos are NOT science, and medicine is still lagging basic science by many decades and getting worse on generic biochemistry and deficiency/degenerative diseases. Read Linus Pauling, Abram Hoffer. Strongly biochemical based forms of "alternative medicine" (orthomolecular medicine, many naturopaths, ND) have really useful answers. Better answers. Don't be a Darwin Awardee - read and think for yourself. I suggest Lef.org and www.doctoryourself.com for alt med sites with good technical references for starters. Good Luck, reader-thinkers.
Our family's last two experiences with Disneyland: ~1996 our family group of 10, including elderly grandmother, was delayed 50 minutes entrance because gate wanted a 2nd set of sale documents (besides the "tickets") back at the hotel room. Never had that kind of bs elsewhere. I think Disney wasted $$$ of our time and patience for a mediocre experience tainted by vicious gate policies. Kid went to California, Disneyland with hs band 2 yrs ago came home sick and unimpressed. Save your money, and don't support greed-head facists, a real waste of money. I won't subscribe to ANY Disney product. Thaw Walt, chill out the rest the you. Gummy fingers for grimey grinches.
I have a neighbor with two African greys among other pets. No joke, one grey is named "Einstein". Among other mischief, Einstein likes to imitate its master's voice and commands, calling the golden retriever. Then Einstein laughs out loud at the disappointed dog to its face! Poor dog. Perhaps they should have named the grey "Loki", but then Einstein was known to have a sense of humor.
Anyone who is familiar with the cons/frauds that often pass for many lawyers or managers in the US today, recognizes this. Deny, deny, deny - insist, persist until (a) the complainer fades away in exhaustion or disgust, (b) the problem is over shadowed by another problem, (c) a miracle happens, say a clueless good Samaritan genuis fixes it or a government emergency clears it, etc, or (d) "something bad happens" - jail, termination, retirement or liquidation. SCO mgmt is obviously delaying (d) as long as possible. Another day is another expense account, another pay check and hoping for a miracle to bail out. Most of all another day of NOT reckoning.
Late in the American empire, literacy rates declined so much that by the early 21st century, 5 of the 9 US Supreme Court justices could not even read well enough to follow their basic job functions and user documentation in the Constitution. Faced with military and economic pressures in the Middle and Far East...
Interesting ploy, now they can share a piece of the pie with Apple, Sun and even Linux. But a day late and a dollar short. Why bother if (1) I can run my old Winders apps on wine, (2) I am so disgusted with MS security (lack of), prior practices etc, (3) potentially broken DRM, (4) I can get what I need for "free" or, at least, no continuing "stick up"grades. Frankly, I think MS should concentrate on getting ONE OS right.
Hopefully the Texas law will benefit small towns and quasi-rural areas that are traditionally un- or underserved by the "big boys", where in some cases, a communal, volunteer effort could bring real progress.
Overpriced goods created by invasive, statist laws are making less desirable elements rich whether counterfeit goods, drugs, prostitution etc. Making more draconian laws simply speeds us on the "-isms" road to decline and the dustbin of history if uncorrected. Good laws are self enforcing, virtue resists vice; we could wind up with neither. Hey guys, RIAA members etc, simply overcharge. The lesson is when one buys any RIAA/MPAA sponsored work, legit or not, one drives up demand and pricing - you ride with bin Laden.... ;>
beware of the Government AND... the Insurance compnies. Surely won't be too long before you will rated or denied insurance(s) over your tanning booth data.