on Digest 6b. on Re: Biomechanics of conidial dispersal in the toxic mold

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> :

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> 1. You still didn't answer the questions, and they seem so

easy. Let

> me repeat them.

>

> Q1: So (based on your response)YOU have no physically measured data

> (Identification, amounts, release, pressure, etc.) only (biased)

qualitative

> data?

>

> Q2: YOU either have or have not compiled the data (into a form

that

> statistics could be used on it)?

>

> Q3: Is YOUR data (that YOU are relying on) for one or more cases?

>

> Q4: Is YOUR data (that YOU are relying on) for single person or

grouped

> response in this/these case(s)?

>

> And let me add one more:

>

> Q5: What is the p-value of your conclusory hypothesis?

>

>

> 2. As for:

>

> " In fact, your reflexive assumption is a pretty good indication that

> you didn't read the chapter after mine in Mold Warriors. "

>

> Response:

>

> a. Has this data been published in a peer-reviewed format?

> b. If so, where (so I see it without the financial-self-

supporting

> bias)?

> c. If not, why not? No value? Unscientific? Unclinical?

>

> Q6: Cite me b and I'll read it, otherwise it's I consider it just

> another self-help book marketed well to would-be-victims.

>

>

> 3. Your question:

>

> " (Are you sure that you are pursuing a profession that suits you?) "

>

> Response:

>

> Yes. I am professional, I earn my living in this arena.

>

> Q7: Can you say that?

> Q8: If you can't, what value should we place on your words? And

why?

>

Tony, for someone purporting to be a paragon of science, you have

an uncanny way of leaping to many unfounded conclusions.

I receive no money from Mold Warriors and do not have any " financial

self supporting bias " you sugggest.

Moreover, You appear to be laboring under the misperception that

statistics are required to constitute proof.

As Barry Marshall demonstrated by inducing his own case of ulcers by

drinking an H Pylori cocktail, and then curing them in a controlled

clinical test, this one experiment was sufficient to demonstrate the

viability of the concept the very first time it was done.

If so much as one person can " break the rule " , the rule is

irreparably broken.

The entire medical community which did not see fit to place any

value on Barry Marshall's demonstration were " professionals " .

This didn't save from the embarrassment of being completely wrong.

I believe it is for the best that you DO NOT place any value on my

observations or experience, as this kind of dedicated indifference

just makes my story all that much the better.

As Dr Shoemaker wrote in the beginning of my chapter: " History

doesn't remember the critics " .

-MW