Re: RC: Reply from an educated derelict

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/27/99 11:43:55 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
dleblanc@mindspring.com writes:

<< This isn't a religeous issue.  The problem I have is that the state of
 science when it comes to what we're doing is woefully inadequate.  There
 isn't much being done. >

Yes, but the need exists, nonetheless. It seems to me that you have the 
choice to snooze along until some grand poohbah makes an announcement, that 
is sure to be proven half wrong in another decade, or you can start trying 
thengs and if you find something that works, you pass on the information.

 >The people doing it usually aren't from a technical
 background, and there are a lot of old wives tales that somehow become
 truth.  You ask someone why they do something, and they tell you "it just
 works for me".  No way to tell if it works for you or anyone else.  Worse
 yet, there isn't millions of dollars in prize money for endurance races, so
 there isn't a financial motive to spend millions studying it.>

The thing that's good about a group like this is the rapid exchange of such 
information--if a few more were willing to exchange rather than sit back and 
whimper about the niceities of public discourse. Then, a lot of the old wives 
tales could be eliminated from consideration while others could be 
incorporated into useful protocols--despite what the pronouncements from on 
high happen to be at the time. Just look at the story of Vitamin C as an 
example of this kind of underground discovery.

ti


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