Re: Kudos To Hveragerthi

Thankyou very much.

I have been offered my own board several times by moderators, but have always said no.  Mainly because I often have very little time, and sometimes can go weeks or months without ever going on line.  I have been a lot better about keeping up lately, but I am neglecting some very important projects I need to finish.

Second reason is that I like picking and choosing what posts I respond to.  To often I read posts where people are diagnosing themselves wrong, especially with things that are highly unlikely such as parasites, acidity, or poisoning from mercury fillings.  I don't like to waste my time with people like this.  I have found in the past that even after spending a lot of time explaining everything to them they still want to argue because they want to believe their own original belief.  Kind of like when I used to post on a hepatitis board a long time ago. There were several people on their that loved their "pity parties" as I called them when they would spend all day posting about how their viral load was up. When I explained to them why viral load neither proves the presence of a particular virus, nor viral activity they went on the warpath against me.  When I said the viral load test was not a diagnostic tool but rather a sales tool they about took my head off.  It did not matter how much evidence I presented to back this up.  That was their means to attention so they did want to hear the facts.  What really got me is why would anyone choose to believe they are infected with very dangerous virus based on tests that have no way to confirm this.  Their diagnosis was consuming them as they spent all day, every day on that board.  I thought I was offering them some hope by explaining in great detail to them why there are NO conventional lab tests that can prove the presence of a particular virus. Instead they treated me like I was the Grim Reaper coming to get them or something.

So I am a lot more careful about who I respond to.  It is too much a waste of time to explain things to people who are set on what they want to believe is what they have.  Even if it is clearly or unlikely the case.

On the other hand there is so much misinformation I see posted on these boards and I do want to correct it.  But I have already been banned by a lot of boards for doing this.  Such as the liver flush support forum.  I guess they feel there is only one way to flush the liver, and it is with olive oil and citric acid, which really does not work.  So I have been thinking as a compromise getting a board where I will mainly post about diseases and alternative medicines, but for the most part not accept questions about health.