Splinter Groups (was: Re: pork question)

April 23, 2002

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> But, again, I'm much more concerned that the WAP foundation's

literature,

> whether printed or digital, be accurate and rigorously sourced.

Funny to think that when I joined this list I was worried that it

would be cultish - but the only cult here is the cult of the nitpick!

I don't think splinter groups are inherantly bad. Where would

vegetarianism be if there were only one school of vegetarian thought?

What I'm starting to think would be cool is something

like 'beyondveg.com'. We could call it 'beyondnapd.com'

or 'beyondwap.com'. Unlike beyondveg it wouldn't be about ex-wapers,

but it would be 'research baised appraisals of traditional

nutrition'. We could all just write essays about differant topics and

then nitpick the hell out of them. Carmen could turn her post

about 'calves fed pasteurized milk...' into a full blown essay about

that subject, I could put up my cholesterol review, etc...

In the meantime we can just pick topics that we've already thought

about and try to exhaustively research them. Find the references that

contradict our points so that we can 'while some studies (1,2,3) have

found the opposite, the bulk of the research (4-12) has found that...'

We don't have to make a website at this time, just write and

constantly revise well-referenced essays on topics that interest us.

And a couple years down the road it may hit critical mass. We are in

this for the long haul, right?

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