Dear Fellow EPA and PHYSIO Mail-list members,
Below is the reply from Bruce. He has chosen to reply to me directly
instead of the list, so I am doing him a favour by forwarding it to the both
lists (It must have been an oversight on his part.... perhaps due to another
hard day at work).
You may want to know that I, Panos and the entire academic community have
been dismissed by Bruce as unworthy of providing evidence for EPA (or any
subject for that matter) because WE LEFT THE CLINIC. I am not even going to
respond to this.....
Secondly, the scientific method has also been denounced as being
inappropriate for any discussion on evidence based practice (I assume not
only for EPA, but for our entire base of knowledge!!). Am I missing out on
something here??
Thirdly, EPA can be dismissed by all of us from this day henceforth because
it has been around for the past 50 years and the world was not impressed!!
I must have missed out when everyone was out there casting their votes.
Fourthly, God is dead.
And finally, any discussion that goes contrary to Bruce's point of view is
immature, incurs opportunity costs and is a waste of taxpayers dollars.
That is the FINAL WORD, according to Bruce, Chapter 4, Verse Sick (I mean,
Six).
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go look for another God.
Completey Devastated,
Cheng
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Gray <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: EPA and evidence based practice
> Hi Gohac
>
> On this website, I have found the greatest support for electrotherapy
comes from academics. I have no idea how much clinical experience they draw
on, or why they left the clinic.
> These critics, esp yourself and Panos, seem to make a lot of time to reply
with verbose highbrow sarcasm, using one or two papers here and there to
give your point invincible Truth status.
> As anyone who has read knows, the scientific method does not deal in
deduced ultimate truths, instead it induces enough evidence for a consensus
to be reached by field peers.
>
> That electrotherapy has been around for 50 years and not wowed the world
with its superior healing powers let alone drawn together scientific peer
consensus is enough for me to burst the bubble on its overinflated cult
following.
>
> Let's face it guys, your God is dead.
>
> And please show some maturity by recognising the opportunity costs of
continuing this argument. Anything I wanted to say has been said. And I
assume the same for yourselves. Let it rest at that, and get on with doing
something more productive with tax payers' dollars.
>
>
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