John Mikes wrote:
>Stathis:
>it is always dangerous (wrong!) to mix deviated cases (sick patients) with
>the general (non sick) human (behavioral etc.) concepts.
>One thing is even worse: to draw conclusions of such.
I disagree with this, in general. In medical science, in particular, one of
the most common means of progress in understanding normal physiology has
been the study of pathological cases. If you have a very complex system, and
a fault develops, if you can trace and understand the fault, then you
understand at least one small part of the system.
>I wrote some comments in this thread lately and did not see them being
>included in the list-posts. Am I banned from writing to the list?
John, of course your comments are welcome on the list. It is easy to think
that you are being ignored when nobody replies to your post, but that is not
necessarily the case. The posts that get most replies seem to be the ones
that say something provocative, controversial, or just plain wrong: everyone
loves a good argument! It could simply be that everyone agrees with you if
you have no replies. For example, I don't think anyone specifically replied
to George Levy's post on this thread, which I thought was very well reasoned
and I completely agreed with.
--Stathis Papaioannou
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Received on Tue Apr 12 2005 - 01:44:21 PDT