[extropy-chat] (no subject)

[Joseph Bloch]

Mike Lorrey wrote:

>"In my opinion, there's a significant probability that she would
>improve with hyperbaric oxygen therapy based on what I have seen in the
>CT of the brain, the SPECT scan, and my observation and examination of
>the patient."
>

Mike, Mike, Mike... you're letting your personal experience cloud your 
better judgement here, I fear.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, for which your Dr. William Maxfield (whom you 
cite as the source of the above quote), is quackery. And people who 
endorse and espouse quackery are... well... quacks.

See, for example:

http://www.healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/Hyperbaric-O2/

Maxfield's testamony, by the way, was directly contradicted in the same 
hearing by Dr. Ronald Cranford, who seems to be somewhat more of a 
mainstream physician (not advocating fringe quackery therapies, at 
least). See 
http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/cda/article_print/0,1983,NPDN_14910_3648895_ARTICLE-DETAIL-PRINT,00.html

Joseph

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