[Prolix]

"barrett seems to think that when things don't make sense to him it's quackery..."

It seems to me that Dr. Barrett goes by aphorisms such as:

1. The conservative: If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
2. The empirical: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck; then it's a duck.
3. The hippocratic: First do no harm.

[TomB]

1. The conservative: If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

2. The empirical: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck; then it's a duck.

3. The hippocratic: First do no harm.

I'd like to add a fourth that a clinical instructor told me many times and it stuck with me all these years:

"Don't be a stupid ass, doc."

;-)

[krodriguesdc]

a visit to Barrett's website will show you that for all his verbosity his only statement is - if it's not medicine - it's quackery!