Especially true when incompetence is coupled with salesmanship. Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "KF Etzold" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 10:42 AM Subject: Re: Women paid for eggs > Rick wrote: > The agents on both > sides of the deal assured us, along with the owner, who seemed to be > quite forthcoming with the info, that everything was fine. And to > my > surprise (not!) the foundation has continued to deteriorate. In > short, we were hoodwinked. > _________________________________________ > > I think it true in this as well as other situations, including > medical (PD) > issues that the person(s) making the "diagnosis" (of the crumbling > foundation) was incompetent. If there is deliberate fraud or > falsehood that > is relatively easy to detect. It is much harder when there is > incompetence > because the person making the analysis makes a true (in his > judgement) > observation. In fact a careful check, perhaps by second experts in > the > field, would reveal the truth. Hence, the second opinion in > medicine, > consultants in many other fields. So, in a way one can get > hoodwinked by a > deliberate lie, or discover a problem caused by incompetence. I am > not > sure, but I think I am more afraid of incompetence because it is > more > difficult to detect. > > K. F. Etzold > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn