> It's becoming obvious that our discussion has either > stupified people with boredom or you & I are verging onto > that ground where lightheartedness causes feelings of unease > - though lightheartedness is in my experience one of the great > identifiers of the really effective, whether in the arts or medicine > or soldiering or whatever. > > You can take it I'm nearly always in deadly earnest. And as you > can see I'm constitutionally unable to express myself earnestly. > > My last couple of posts should be seen as a prolonged howl > of exasperation at the armies of snake oil hucksters who have > come trooping to my door over the past 50 years flogging nostrums > - always supported with the latest & most rigorous research by > people who know rather less about true scientific method than > my cat - nostrums which are doomed to be discarded with > a disillusionment as passionate as the faith with which they were > originally embraced. Oh. --tim