Pot meet kettle!!
Funny, I have also heard the expression "keep an open mind but don't let your brains fall out" when referring to alternative or non science based medicine.
Breath in. Breath out!
Barb C.:>)
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YES Barb!!!
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You heard the "By all means lets be open minded, but not so open minded that our brains drop out" quote from me!
Just today!! I quoted that Richard Dawkins quip on 'open mindedness' to you!!
To emphasise that your exhortations to PR members to be "open minded" about the shenanigans that go on on the Bad ScienceForum (BS) should be treated with caution ....
... to emphasise that the BS Forum should only be approached in a seriously critical thinking manner.
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By "Non Science based medicine" - are you referring to, for instance, Homeopathy - or to the UK CBT/GET PACE TRIAL... Or to the Lightning Process NLP Coaching scam that is currently being trialled on ME children in the UK ?? ????
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Barb - do you actually KNOW ANYTHING about the UK PACE Trial ???
Or about the UK SMILE Trial of the NLP Coaching Course scam (Lightning Process) that is being trialled on UK youngsters by Dr Esther Crawley ???? ????
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I understand that you do not live in Britain, and from your previous posts its clear that you do not comprehend how UK medical institutions, including the NHS, actually operate.
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If you do not understand how our UK institutions actually work, and are uninformed/foggy about central and crucial issues of the UK ME policy for adults and children - then why on earth did you so confidently dismiss high quality evidence from seriously respected sources ?? ???
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Evidence such as the high quality Reports I posted by the UK ME Childrens Charity The Tymes Trust about the well referenced mistreatment of children with ME in the UK due to wrongful child protection investigations ..
You did not appear to have a clue about the background or status of those Reports.
Do you know what child protection investigations actually means in the UK?
Do you know ANYTHING about how the UK Family Courts operate?
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No. I didn't think that you did.
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Did you actually READ the Tymes Trust reports that I posted, ??? ???
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I do get the impression that you are relatively new to the UK 'Skeptics' scene. If you were an old timer - well, you would have recognised the Dawkins quote and gathered that it was being applied 'outside of the box'.
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