User talk:Tyronne

Pretty expensive website....;-)
Good edit here: Quite odd how Mercola needs millions to run a website, when Stephen Barrett can run 22 websites for about seven grand, and even pays out of his own pocket when the income is too little. The difference between a big time commercial website selling multiple dubious products and an idealistic quackbuster operation is vast. -- Fyslee 11:47, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Fyslee, I was only seeking to keep the article clean and sensible with my edits. Can you substantiate that Mercola recieves millions in revenue? I have no information in regard to his earnings.


 * After looking at your own User Page, I admit to appreciating the following quote that I found there:
 * "There cannot be two kinds of medicine - conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the outset. If it is found to be reasonably safe and effective, it will be accepted." - Angell M, Kassirer JP, "Alternative medicine--the risks of untested and unregulated remedies." N Engl J Med 1998;339:839". Regards, Tyronne


 * My comment above is of course not suitable for the article...;-) I don't know just how much he makes, but considering all the products he sells, and the fact that his website is one of the most visited health sites on the internet, then I doubt that he earns less than more anonymous promoters of dietary supplements and various alternative products. They make millions, and I would imagine he does too. There must be some place where such information can be found, and that might be good for the article. I have nothing against people earning millions, as long as it is done honestly and doesn't exploit people's ignorance, or is done by making false claims and scaring them into avoiding proven methods in favor of disproven or unproven ones.


 * If you liked that excellent quote, then I've got plenty more that I have collected:


 * Treasure Chest of Quotes and Jokes, page 1


 * Many of them are from members on the Healthfraud Discussion List. They give some interesting insights into critical and skeptical thinking. I'm an assistant listmaster there, and Stephen Barrett is the moderator. (I rarely need to do anything, just watch the list when he's gone.) -- Fyslee 15:43, 20 October 2006 (UTC)