http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/ Goa Research Net Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:35:50 GMT JoeGoaUk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4845 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4845 Of the may who came back on this, at least 3 said ‘Chunam’   They are not chunam but ‘Gomi Follam’ (Gum fruits or gum tree)   And that’s why I said Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:41:26 GMT JoeGoaUk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4844 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4844 Please give way!  VIPs crossing the busy Miramar-DonaPaula Road http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk20/3699355778/sizes/l/   Joegoauk@... for Goa & Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:46:00 GMT Santosh Helekar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4843 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4843 ... I am not sure if Selma will be able to find any logic in the above statement and the rest of the material in the above post, but I am at a loss to find Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:10:01 GMT Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4842 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4842 Dear Selma: The issue here isn't about "vaccinations... sav(ing) the lives of thousands of children" but needless, universal, mass immunisations undertaken Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:38:04 GMT goadesc@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4841 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4841 ... Welcome to the FRIDAY BALCAO ... Dear Cybergaonkars on Goa-research-net, We continue with FRIDAY BALCAO on 10th July from 4pm. to 6pm. at Goa Desc Resource Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:29:57 GMT Santosh Helekar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4840 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4840 I hope there is no other person in this forum who is swayed by political statements and urban legends against the need for childhood immunization. Here are Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:29:41 GMT Frederick Noronha http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4839 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4839 Doesn't look "magical" to me... If a scientist in a white coat repackages traditional wisdom, does it become "Science"? FN PS: Old URL below doesn't work... Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:28:49 GMT Carvalho http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4838 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4838 Dear FN, I generally find it prudent to prostrate myself in front of anything that bears the label modern, liberal, scientific and rational. In the long run it Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:39:51 GMT Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4837 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4837 Selma, Before you prostrate at the altar of this god called Modern Science, let me join in this verbal slugfest and tell you that I too am skeptical about the Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:39:11 GMT Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4836 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4836 Yesterday's mumbo-jumbo = today's home remedies = tomorrow's Science (with a capital S)? So as not to self-plagarise myself, I'm quoting: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:39:12 GMT Santosh Helekar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4835 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4835 ... I think this is a very good point. People do not understand the difference between magical thinking and science. The best and most concise, yet Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:55:07 GMT Rina Mukherji http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4834 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4834 You are right, Maurice. What you refer to as folk medicine works wonders. Of course, these may not work in the case of complex diseases like Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:54:04 GMT Rina Mukherji http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4833 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4833 Nice to know that you like the jousting you are indulging in...actually, I thought this was a group given to intellectual debate, and not jousting That is Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:51:46 GMT Santosh Helekar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4832 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4832 Dear Selma, The opposition to vaccinations is being promoted by naturopaths and homeopaths, not fakirs. Like everything else in these healing rituals, it is Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:44:30 GMT Shrikant Barve http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4831 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-research-net/message/4831 One of the homely reply on Ayurvedic forum for treatment for Conjuctivitis. Re: Ayurvedic Treatment for Conjuctivitis I have tried urine therapy. It has worked