apology and more, RE: PAM L. and Terry

[Guest guest]

Hi, Pam,

First, I have to apologize for swamp the group with mails (14 out of

last 90 emails). I thought my posts can be beneficial to some of the

members here who do not have the access to medical literatures and

have only heard the one side of the story.

Second, I did not intend to cause anyone's stress. I thought this

group is a place for other to express their views and search for

support and people only look at the views not the person hisself. I

thought the world is beatiful because we are all different and we had

different views. Do not get agitated because others might have

different views. Truth will always be truth. Just stick with what you

believe in which I always do.

Third, I did not know the rules here for posting studies/research

results. So, I have posted the some of the abstracts in the post area

and a full length articles in the file area. I will provide URLs

intead of articles in the future, however, for abstract or some of

these free PDF files, I think it should be ok in terms of the copy

rights issue since they are all public information. I will try to put

as many URLs in one mail as possible, so it can avoid some of the

problems you mentioned. If peple do not like them, just delete that

message as a whole.

Finally, I have to point out that I did feel some of your words are

rude and offensive in a certain degree. I do not have any bad

intention as you suspected. I have shown respect and restrain when

someone launched person attack. I did not have much emotional words

in most of my posts if you look back. I only post facts. However, I

did question people's basic education when people compare RAI to

nuclear fall-out, I did call some of the presentation as distortion

and exageration when people make blind comment and assumption without

looking into facts.

In a certain degree, I am a bit saddened by some of what you said and

suspected. After all, we are all Graves patients which should make

the unity.

All right, best wishes,

Liang

Terry,

Actually, it was not your suggestion that made me to post some of

these posts. I just wanted to give out some facts which I learned

throught the endeavour in the past 6 years. I thought it might be

helpful to some of these people here.

So as today's link, actually, it was a small mistake. I intended to

only post the link to three reviews about TSI contraversy, but I

posted the whole content instead. For some of the research, you might

feel disgusted. Yeah, some of the studies might not be complete as we

could like to see, some of the design might not be as humane as we

would like, however, it is the nature of the research, we might have

to live with it when we read them.

I did not intend to cause such a " turmoil " since I was thinking

people might be open to embrace the different views and co-exit and

they would give out some of their facts too, so it will be clear to

rest of us what to do. However, I am a bit dissappointed.

Once again, I would like to apologize if past few days has been

stressful for some of our members. It was not my intention.

Just hope the group will not be a place for anti-RAI compaign. If so,

I would not see how it is different from the NGDF board which will be

the other side of the extreme or the doctors who rushed people into

RAI without informing the patient with other options.

Best wishes,

Liang

> OR perhaps your goal is to have members unsubscribe from our list ?

This is

> a common tactic by TROLLS. As are the condescending, emotional

choice of

> many words you have placed here. This is known as BAIT.

> If anyone does not know what a troll is, look it up.

>

> I hope this helps you better understand how Internet support groups

work.

>

> As a long time member, and friend of many here, I only wish to help

protect

> our members from unneeded stress.

> There is a fine line between sharing information and intentionally

making

> people sick.

>

> Please show us the same respect we have shown you.

>

> -Pam L- Mama hen

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