You must be joking.
The efficacy of sterilization has been known since Pasteur.
My father was a psychologist.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of Tim Rhodes
Sent: Friday, February 5, 1999 12:10 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re: virus: Being uncomfortable isn't always bad
Richard wrote:
>Amazing that people continue to put their faith in talk therapy when, after
>so many years, no study has shown it to be a reliably effective treatment
>for anything.
Where you aware that there has never been a study conducted to prove or disprove whether the ritual of a surgeon scrubbing up for five minutes per hand before gloving-up has any effect on the infection rates of her patient's in a modern hospital setting?
Boy, those doctors sure are dumb!
-Prof. Tim