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On Wed 31 Dec, Dennis Greene wrote: > Brian Collins wrote: > > > I have mixed views about the book by Dwight C McGoon. The first 70 > > pages are by far the most readable and understandable descriptions > of how > > the brain operates (In the areas relevant to PD) that I have read. > After > > that he goes into his drug holiday mode, and I stop reading. To put > it > > delicately, I think it is rubbish. > 'Rubbish' is I admit a provocative word: I use it as a fly to draw the big fish to come and take a bite out of me. See - It works!! > I must say Brian, that you are consistant, both in your opinions and > your persistant use of the word "rubbish". I am also interested to > note that, on the evidence of the above quote, you no longer read > opinions contrary to your own, even when they are written by somone > capable of writing "by far the most readable and understandable > descriptions of how the brain operates (In the areas relevant to PD) > that I have read". Perhaps this explains that consistancy. Of course I have read the whole book at least twice, but I have read the first half many more times. > In a previous posting on this subject you acknowledged that 'the jury > was still out", yet here you go again, deriding any opinion not in > agreement with your own. Once more I would ask you to stop > trivialising this debate with the persistant use of the word > "rubbish". I would also ask, in support of David Langridge, and > again not for the first time, that you substantiate your theories > with something more than your own experience. > Read my reply to David: I am not talking about people with diphasic dyskinesia. I am very sorry for them, and regret that I am unable to help them. As a sufferer of the plain vanilla form of Parkinsons. (i.e. The majority), I will continue to quote my experience, just as David keeps quoting his. > Bernard Shaw wrote in one of his plays, something on the lines of : > > "Forgive him; he is a barbarian who believes that the customs of his > small island are the Laws of the Universe". > Write out 500 times 'PWPs with diphasic dyskinesia are a small minority' > It is a trap we all fall into at times, perhaps you would consider > climbing out of it. > > Dennis. > > ************************************************* > Dennis Greene 48/10 > [log in to unmask] > http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ > ************************************************** > > > A Happy New Year to you -- Brian Collins <[log in to unmask]>