Re: What to do if you meet a wolf

"Paul Dormer" <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> In article <bvvVj.130010$rd2.5608@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Karl Johanson) wrote:
>
>>
>> Such things don't surprise me as much as people following
>> superstitions centuries into the age of science.
>
> Much alternative medicine seems like that to me.  I remember a
> colleague at work who realised he was coming down with the symptoms of
> a cold.
>
> "But I can't be getting a cold," he protested.  "I take plenty of
> vitamin C."
>
> I pointed out that vitamin C cold prevention fad had never been
> scientifically proved.
>
> "I don't care," he said.  "It works for me."

: )

At Least Vitamin C has some physiological effects, even if not the ones 
the consumers claim it is having. The people shelling out good money for 
tiny bottles of water that someone says they shook, are even further 
down the rabbit hole.

Karl Johanson