re candida yeast bloom fact or fiction rind enterprise bih harvard edu david rind writes in article apr vms ocom okstate edu banschbach vms ocom okstate edu writes poster for being treated by a liscenced physician for a disease that did not exist calling this physician a quack was reprehensible steve and i see that you and some of the others are doing it here as well do you believe that any quacks exist how about quack diagnoses is being a licensed physician enough to guarantee that someone is not a quack or is it just that even if a licensed physician is a quack other people shouldn t say so can you give an example of a commonly diagnosed ailment that you think is a quack diagnosis or have we gotten to the point in civilization where we no longer need to worry about unscrupulous healers taking advantage of people david rind sure there are quacks there are quacks who don t treat and quacks who treat one s that refuse to diagnose and ones that diagnose improperly there are lucky quacks and unlucky quacks smart quacks and dumb ones there are people ahead of their time with unprobable or unproven theories and rationals there are ill reasoned absurd theorists sometimes it s hard to tell who s who reading a book of ancient jokes it seems that doctors called other doctors quacks in babylon arguments abound when there aren t any firm answers plenty of illnesses aren t or can t be diagnosed or treated but i think it s better to argue against the theory as was originally done with postings on candida a month or so ago stating the facts usually works better than simply asserting an opinion about someone s competency and you can t convince everybody sometimes a correct diagnosis takes years for people they don t run into a doctor who recognizes the disease they haven t developed something recognizable yet or they have something that no one is going to recognize because it hasn t been described yet sometimes they get a cure sometimes the illness wears out sometimes they stumble on an improper diagnosis with the right treatment sometimes they find it s incurable there is no profit in a patient accepting a hopeless attitude about an illness unless it s a rock solid diagnosis of terminal disease it s is more like ly that a person will find a cure if they keep looking jackie
