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Re: Big money in the electrostatics biz

Has some reputable org. (such as the FDA) conclusively found shocks (such as
from triboelectric charging) pose NO health risk? [I'm too lazy to check on
this, and think someone on the list may have.]

Remember Semmelweis was hounded out of Vienna for suggesting Docs. wash
their hands, and sterilize with chlorinated lime (calcium hypochlorite)
before examining pregnant and parturating women. Note, the Med. school in
Budapest where he returned is named after him. Of course we are more
advanced than they were in the 19th cent. Furthermore he based this on the
first study (his, statistical with controls) of the relationship of
puerperal fever (absence of) and asepsis. This was 30 years before the
Frenchman explained it.

bc

P.s. for a time under Soviet domination the U. was named after the
Physicist, Loránd Eötvös.


Vern Lindberg wrote:

It seems to me that Mr. Thorp's postings are blatant spam and should not
be permitted on this net.
Jack Uretsky

Correct me if I am wrong. The first posting regarding this item came
NOT from Mr. Thorp, but from Mr. Beaty. Therefore it does not fit any
rational definition of spam.

I seem to recall that someone (Mr. Beaty?) asked Mr. Thorp to post to
the list rather than work through private communications.

As suggested by critics in earlier postings, Mr. Thorp has modified
his website to include the information on discharging the static by
use of keys, and has made clear that he does not claim expertise in
the area of medicine, but just refers readers to the web. (And we
know how reliable that can be!)

Mr. Thorp's threat of legal action seems to me to be extreme. However
he has a sincere belief in his product, and has been subjected to
postings calling him a quack at best, and a fraud at worst.

I hope that everyone just lets this slide and gets back to posting
subjects with more physics and less economics/medicine/criminal law.