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From: Pd on 11 Jun 2010 07:32 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > I think that for me one of the most important things the book did was > offer the first explanation of systematic atrocity that I could really > accept, even though this explanation came with some other discomfiting > consequences about the kind of people who end up participating in > atrocity (i.e. people exactly like us, not like those other people who > participate in atrocity). I've often wondered how I would have reacted if my Jewish next door neighbour had his shop ransacked, and his family dragged off in the middle of the night. Would I have gone to the police, or the local SS office to enquire as to their whereabouts? The Iranian women who gather in Tehran's Laleh Park every week have my greatest respect. -- Pd
From: Sak Wathanasin on 11 Jun 2010 07:34 On 11 June, 12:22, peterd.n...(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: > I've just come back from my doctor, and was surprised that the treatment > he recommended was none at all. He actually said the risks of treatment > were higher than the inconvenience and potential risks of just leaving > well alone. Respeck. Wow! A "Bad Science" reader? > My doctor through childhood didn't feel he'd done his job properly > unless he prescribed something. > Grazed knee? Antibiotics! Migraines? Antibiotics! > Broken toe? Antibiotics! > He's probably responsible for half the MRSA in the world today. Yeah but a lot of that is due to patients putting pressure put on GPs to do *something* - for you know, he gave you sugar pills.
From: Sak Wathanasin on 11 Jun 2010 08:03 On 11 June, 12:16, real-not-anti-spam-addr...(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote: > I'll be interested to know what you think about it. Don't hold your breath: it'll join a big "to be read" pile, though I'll probably have a quick skim when it arrives.
From: Pd on 11 Jun 2010 08:07 Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > On 11 June, 12:22, peterd.n...(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: > > My doctor through childhood didn't feel he'd done his job properly > > unless he prescribed something. > > Grazed knee? Antibiotics! Migraines? Antibiotics! > > Broken toe? Antibiotics! > > He's probably responsible for half the MRSA in the world today. > > Yeah but a lot of that is due to patients putting pressure put on GPs > to do *something* - for you know, he gave you sugar pills. I told him I'd heard about this new treatment, Placebo, and it sounded like it would work for my special symptoms. -- Pd
From: Bob Tightrope on 11 Jun 2010 13:28
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:53:47 +0100, D.M. Procida wrote: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > >> Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Yes well, there's a great deal that is better than that or than the book >>> reviewed. The book itself presents nothing new and appears to offer no >>> unique insights. >>> >>> It was done better a long time ago by Giancarlo Livraghi in his book >>> "The Power of Stupidity". >> >> That would be the one published in May, 2009. Obviously a long time >> before 2007. >> >>> http://gandalf.it/stupid/chapters.htm >> >> I wonder if there's a book called "The Power of Rancor". > > Do leave him in peace. > > Daniele Hello, fairy cakes. I say leave him in pieces. -- "Folks, don't be decieved, the real Rowland is a billion times worse than he *EVER* has been here! Take it from someone he's physically assaulted. On more than one occasion. Then he had the audacity to claim he'd not done me any harm - and went on to claim it was my fault!" Sarah Jane Balfour - 20 Apr 07 |