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If you think you can make a valid counterpoint via ad hominem instead of with facts you are mistaken.
by crumblan 14y ago
If you think you can make a valid counterpoint via ad hominem instead of with facts you are mistaken.
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoQuestioning someone's potential bias is not an "ad hominem" attack. If requesting corroboration offends you then you need to ask yourself why. I've searched the BMJ archive (http://www.bmj.com/archive http://www.bmj.com/archive) and can't find any reference to this particular claim; only a few retrospectives and passing references. Also where it is mentioned in other literature, the claim is limited to reuse of hypodermics and there is no mention that she specified that hypodermics must be blunt, eg in order to increase the pain of patients - as adventureful appears to intimate. Given the choice between not getting an innoculation or getting one from a used needle ... well that's a hard choice isn't it. As I can't find the article there is nothing to tell us what factors are at play, the seriousness of the diseases or the attempted mitigation (if there was any).