"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:1169216798.881246.268330@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Carlos de Gante wrote:
> > Mike Lyle wrote:
> > > Carlos de Gante wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > Thanks to being able to read Latin, Stanley B. Prusiner could
> > > > literally copy the fundaments of prions [...]
> > >
> > > Hmm. Do you know what a petard is?
> >
> > a medieval small bomb used to blow up gates and walls when
> > breaching fortifications?
> >
> > Or do you mean it as in the phrase "to be hoisted by one's own
> > petard",
> [...]
>
> There is a fundamental connection.
>
This fellow, Carlos de Gante or Rafaminu, has a hard on for any and all
types of alternative medicine and ways to increase your quality of life
without really working at it. I don't deny that there are problems with
conventional medicine, or that some schools of alternative medicine may be
based on valid precepts, but Charly is going at it all wrong. He grasps
at any straw to "prove" that his world view is the best. This kind of ad
hoc argument is not the way to conduct a scientific investigation or to
find
out what is really going on in the world.
Carlito's looking for the quick buck, and he isn't really going to find
it.
He's also looking to increase the prestige and glory of the Spanish
language, by making it in his own mind the equal or something superior to
English. But it's not English, and it never will be. Witness his
attempts
to fill the Spanish version of Wikipedia with (worthless) articles on any
and all types of alternative medicine. Or this thread, with it's implied
denigration of monolingual persons. A Basque teenager with an addiction
to
soccer and video games, and an alleged hatred of Spanish culture,
according
to "Carlos", regularly has his efforts shot down. When a history of
twenty-first century Usenet is written, he will be a sad footnote in the
chapter on stridently annoying copy/paste artists.
He also does not respond well to any type of criticism, as you will no
doubt
see shortly. ;^)
Saúde,
Earle
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