Re: What is Quackery?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 "Rich Shewmaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> "Jez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > "Marko Proberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> > > It is not. It acts the same regardless of age, gender, political
> > persuasion,
> > > or whether you eat meat.
> >
> > That just shows how fucking ignorant you are !
> >
> > Regardless of age !!!
> >
> 
> Ignorant? Mark has a child who needed Ritalin therapy. From the posts he's
> made here, it's obvious that, being a responsible parent, he's done his
> homework and learned the FACTS about the medication. Fortunately he sought
> his information from more reliable sources than scare mongers anti-science
> websites and kook conspiracy theorists. Do you have any valid evidence that
> the effects of Ritalin are age dependent? If you do, cite them. Until then
> I'll draw my own conclusions as to who's ignorant.

Jez is very good at spouting anti-science altie cliches, but he's not so 
good at actually making arguments or producing evidence to support those 
arguments. When confronted with assertions he can't handle, he resorts 
to either one-liners or ad hominem attacks.
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