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> A great many posings recently have made arguments pro and con this >mediction or that medication, this symptom or that symptom. Without taking >sides, I will try to alienate everybody all at once. Here are some statements >which I think are probably (more or less) true. They are also not >self-consistent. > >1. PD is a bummer. >2. It's not going to go away. >3. Anecdotes about individual experience are valuable because they remind us >of our common humanity. >4. There is objective reality in this world, but it is not to be found in >anecdotes about individual experience. >5. Our physicians work for us. The best physician is the one we have >confidence in. BUT, beware of quackery. >6. Quackery promises much but delivers little. Science promises little but >delivers much. >7. The person who acts as his (or her) own doctor has a fool for a patient. >8. Characterizing engineers (and, by extension, scientists) as all of a kind >is nonsense, an anti-intellectual Polish joke. >9. Those who can't spell shouldn't put themselves down. They should get a >dictionary. >10. George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, preached that when we learn to see >that part of God that is in those we meet we will then see that part of God that >is in us. (My words, not his.) >11. PD is a malady of the body. It does not have also to be a malady of the >spirit. >12. I only know eleven things for sure, today. > >Check out the logical contradiction in #12. > >George Andes 62/14 and counting.> George, Do us all a favor--go back to bed & get up on the Right side of the bed this time!!!!! Marjorie