I’m stepping away today. Not feeling well, ear infections (due to wearing two hearing aids) are a chronic problem for me and I have a raging one today, so I’ll just be cranky. Off to the clinic then.
[update: Please guys, no more unsolicited suggestions for cures and treatments for Anthony. He keeps himself well-informed. I’m just asking nicely. ~ ctm]
Anything science, technology, weather and climate related within the policy limits of WUWT can be discussed below.
Don’t make me come back here.
You and my dad with your hearing aids. My dad finally (20+ years) has found a set that are working for him on all fronts. Keep trying different types and see if you can get them on a 30 day trial because at $5,000 a pop it ain’t cheap. Good luck.
As to thread ideas for the blog I’ve always wondered about this one:
What is the one most important thing you have learned from WUWT?
Just one and a brief description why. I know picking one is hard.
I’ll tell you mine and I am very interested in what other readers have picked up here.
LFTR. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors. I’ve always been one who read lots on energy and so I was stunned. I felt rather out of the loop and clueless on the whole nuclear energy issue until I saw the video listed below. In it the speaker relates on how you can get a PhD in nuclear engineering/physics and NEVER hear about LFTRs.
Over to the rest of you.
charles the moderator says:
September 17, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Please guys, no more unsolicited suggestions for cures and treatments for Anthony. He keeps himself well-informed. I’m just asking nicely. ~ ctm
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With due respect Charles, it is an open thread, and there may be people reading who share Anthony’s problem without being so well informed.
Just saying…….
I think this thread is absolutely a jewel!!! I am quite the sciency nerdy redhead (used to wear dark orange rimmed HUGE glasses with thick lenses) so home remedies don’t impress me much. However, that said, I had an opportunity to use duct tape on a wart that refused to fall off after freezing it several times. I went to my family physician and he recommended wrapping duct tape around my finger where the wart was for one week, then scrubbing the hell out of it with a pumice stone or sand paper, then wrapping it again for another week. I’ll be damned if the thing didn’t fall off.
Pamela Grey, we have a plant in the tropics of NW Australia here called Grevillea pyramidalis, the caustic grevillea, that has a black sticky liquid coating covering ripening seeds. It was and still is used to create tribal ‘scars’ by applying to the skin. It is also used to burn off warts and other skin abnormalities. You cannot feel it burn, the first you know is when the skin blisters where applied.
Ric Werme,
http://www.silvermedicine.org/argyria.html
I know the chemistry details of what actually causes argyria, but the info in that link explains it well, so why lecture. To sum it up:
I have had considerable experience with infections, beginning with my father who had been treated by a podiatrist for ten years for the typical problems that afflict diabetics. He had persistent infections on his feet, and the truth is, at least at that time, the infections are NOT “cured”, just “treated”. After all, elderly folks with diabetes are just expected to live with the affliction right? He had a heart attack in 1999. In the hospital (VA sad to say) they gave him dextrose which drove his sugar to 1000. Literally in a few days the infection in his foot rotted a hole completely through. A pencil would easily fit through it. His heel had a golf ball sized ulcer; the foot looked like a large red tomato and hamburger. His other foot was not as bad. He was transferred to another hospital thank God (no offense, but VA hospitals are a disgrace) where it was determined his foot would need to be amputated but was not possible due to his heart condition.
The following is to the best of my recollection as it has been 12 years.
He was sent home with a pic line and abx. Several weeks went by with no improvement. He had home nursing come in, debri the infected areas and flushed it out daily. Being medically ignorant, I simply observed his foot was not improving and wondered why the abx wasn’t working. I asked what was in the solution they were using; saline solution. Why wasn’t the infection going away I wondered.
Something didn’t make sense, but who was I to question the medical experts? I stopped by a local health food store and they told me about grapefruit seed extract, but didn’t buy it. I went home, did some research and was a bit shocked at what I found, went back and bought a bottle of it.
At that point his foot got progressively worse and the surgeon said the foot must be amputated, no ifs ands or buts. We had fears that would kill him because of his weak heart. My sister, having worked in nursing homes as a nurse for 20+ years took over the duties of cleaning out the foot (I’m too squeamish). We discussed whether to try the GSE (grapefruit seed extract), after all we had nothing to lose, although she was skeptical. My mother said go ahead, so I mixed the recommended dilution in water, and using the same procedure as with the saline solution, she treated his foot. The next morning she called me crying which I thought was going to be very bad news. Rather, the inflammation in his foot receded overnight, and looked to have improved. We repeated the procedure and it improved again. This was most unexpected. I then went to Quality Farm & Fleet, bought a horse feeder tub, modified it to accept a portable whirlpool bath machine and bought a gallon of hospital strength GSE, mixed the proper solution (1 oz per gallon distilled water) and we put his feet in the tub for 15 minutes a day.
His doctor prescribed a $400 tube of Regranex, but after reading its success rate (45%), decided to not use it.
I don’t recall the time frame, maybe a month or so, but as we continued the treatment, his foot eventually completely healed and until his death three years later NEVER had infections again on his feet as long as we used the whirlpool bath method a few days a week. They looked perfectly normal. We also used tea tree oil mixed with the prescribed lotion (which did nothing) and massaged his legs as well. It was nothing less than miraculous what it did for his dry cracked skin.
In case anyone is wondering why my mother made the decision rather than my father, it was because, as we later discovered, the abx and whatever else was in the IV he was on made him appear to have dementia and could not function normally. We were told this from the heart attack and would not improve. His mind was in another world to the point where he thought he was back on Guadal Canal in WW2. Yes, it was that bad. After the third time, we decided that was the breaking point, would not have it reinserted and either this “unapproved” untested method would work or he’d have to go back to the hospital for amputation, and what we believed would be certain death. What happened after his third removal of the pic line is nothing but amazing. Within a week or so, his mind came back and he had no recollection of the previous weeks. Looking back, it was probably a good thing.
In time, I did more research and discovered his diabetic neuropathy was “treatable” without pumping the drugs. Alpha lipoic acid, CoQ10 and others, I don’t recall now, restored feeling back in his feet, he no longer had the typical shuffling while walking and and had a much more better quality of life than what he was accustomed to. His heart disease was greatly improved as well, verified by blood test results and ultrasound data. I think statin drugs are little more than poison and do nothing to address issues such as homocysteine and C-reactive protein (CRP).
I know there will be those who will poo poo this story, but I don’t care. It is true, and the good part is I received an email from a man in Chile whose father had a similar condition with his feet. The doctors there were open to our method and used it successfully. I hope others with loved ones in similar situations benefited from it.
I could also relate a situation with a co-worker’s mother that contracted a Staph A nosocomial infection (VRE) in the hospital and nearly died, and how GSE was used in her situation, but meh, it’s just “anecdotal” and therefore unreliable. Incidentally, the information I received to pass on to his family came from a M.D. in California.
My father also had basal cell carcinoma on his nose, but rather than start a flame war on “Quack” medicine, I’ll refrain and only will say it saved a 12+ hour operation and his nose, and certainly wouldn’t want WUWT to be in trouble with the FDA/FTC as those government agencies are only here to help consumers, not unlike the IPCC 🙂 To make it clear, I am NOT against modern medicine and am thankful for our medical system, particularly in trauma situations and the truly miraculous operations that save and improve the lives of millions. However, there is little doubt corruption permeates the system as well, and it runs deep. It probably started back in the 1930’s or 1940’s. If anyone is interested, go to http://www.williamfkoch.com his family created several years ago. I did much research into William F Koch, met people (in Detroit) that personally knew him and used his SRS. In fact, my brother-in-law’s mother worked for Dr. Koch prior to him being railroaded out of the medical field and eventually the country, and I am good friends with a retired bio-physicist (now 80) who first told me about Koch, and asked me to do the research as he was directly involved. I spent many hours at the library in Lansing, Michigan. It is difficult to locate on the web, but Koch’s “serum” is used in Germany at a clinic there, but my friend questions if it is the genuine Koch original.
Well, that’s part of my story, the first and last. Oh, and don’t other pointing me to QuackWatch; Stephen Barrett and his ilk are the equivalent of Joe Romm, a motley crew.
[NOTE: Patience is a virtue. If something doesn’t appear right away, wait a bit and then send a quick note to the mods. -REP, mod]
What’s the longest post allowed? How many words?
Tom Harley,
That is known as an Escharotic Salve. There are many versions, even the Amish have their own. Some are quite harsh and aggressive, others work more slowly and predictably.
I’ve used one type many times for moles, and dare I say it…..skin cancer! OMG I said it. I’ve had some claim it is just an acid, but after putting it on normal skin and nothing happen, they become a bit flummoxed. I don’t know about the substance you are referring to, but what I am familiar with works by triggering a response of the immune system, causing the body’s NK cells to attack the abnormal cells. It is usually a 10-14 day process, and leaves little or no scarring when used properly. It is applied 3-5 days.
Anything is possible says:
September 17, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Why do you want to talk about hearing aids in an open thread when there’s a perfectly good post on hearing aids that people will read for years?
Ric Werme,
http://www.silvermedicine.org/argyria.html
I glanced through that. It seems to me the role of salt is to let the electrolysis reaction go faster thanks to higher conduction in the colloidal generation.
Note comments like:
Fact: As Assistant Professor Kamila K Padlewska, MD notes, “The most common cause of argyria is mechanical impregnation of the skin by small silver particles in workers involved in silver mining, silver refining, silverware and metal alloy manufacturing.” Do NOT believe those who claim that silver particles cannot cause Argyria.
Fallacy: ENVIA corporation states that ENVIA colloidal silver has no silver particles, and thus their product cannot cause argyria. [Umm, I thought a colloid was made of particles – a salt should dissolve and be ions, far smaller than particles.
Fact: ENVIA corporation markets a high PPM silver compound, and we have corresponded with one dedicated user who has acquired argyria via ENVIA colloidal silver use.
Fact: It is the production process of using salt or saline solution that causes multiple problems due to an uncontrollable electrolysis reaction. Just because silver chloride enters the body in this form, does not mean that it stays in this form. Not only is this “silver mud” less effective by far than a properly made isolated silver, but it contains an abundance of actual metallic silver particles….
The grapefruit seed extract is interesting, thanks.
Practice with that droid enough and some day you might even be able to wrestle a redhead…
TRM says:
September 17, 2011 at 6:46 pm
My favorite from here are the Penn and Livingston papers on the declining magnetic fields and the impact on sunspots. Are we approaching a Maunder Minimum?
See http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/18/suns-magnetics-remain-in-a-funk-sunspots-may-be-on-their-way-out/ and http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/02/livingston-and-penn-paper-sunspots-may-vanish-by-2015/
Joseph,
For a complete debunking of the greenhouse effect, try this.
http://www.spinonthat.com/CO2_files/The_Diurnal_Bulge_and_the_Fallacies_of_the_Greenhouse_Effect.html
For those of you that are still under the illusion that the “greenhouse effect” actually exists, try this;
http://theendofthemystery.blogspot.com/2010/11/venus-no-greenhouse-effect.html
Anthony;
try lubricating the canals with glycerin. Aside from being super-soothing, it is a contact-dehydrator of any and all bacteria. It also loosens impacted earwax. Very cheap.
joseph says:
September 17, 2011 at 12:56 pm
A little help from the scientists in the group please.
I don’t really buy the “greenhouse” theory because I have been in a real greenhouse. They work because they have a roof on top; and the earth does not.
That’s why I wanted to know if a greenhouse on the moon would increase the temperature of the moons surface inside the greenhouse. I dont think there would be any difference if I understand Willis’ steel shell correctly. The only way the moon can cool is by radiation but a greenhouse on earth cools quickest by convection of the hot gasses in the greenhouse out throught the roof vent when it is opened.
Does the solar radiation heat the soil, which heats the air or does the greenhouse trap the longwave IR.
As I understand it, carbon dioxide acts like particles of carbon in the atmosphere.
The longwave IR is absorbed by it and converted to heat which heats the other gasses of the air. If there was no CO2 in the atmosphere then that longwave IR would reach the ground and heat it. This would then heat the gasses in the air. Overall effect of CO2 in the atmosphere is therefor zero!
Anthony, I have never suffered from ear problems but I put that down to a regular consumption of red wine.
Get well soon.
Get well soon, Anthony.
TRM says:
September 17, 2011 at 6:46 pm
“What is the one most important thing you have learned from WUWT?
Just one and a brief description why. I know picking one is hard.”
Ferenc Miskolczi’s theory. He’s arguing that if the atmospheric system could energetically increase the amount of greenhouse gases, it could already do so without waiting for us to emit CO2 – because it already has an unlimited supply of water to turn into water vapor.
So, an increase in CO2 (or other non-water GHG’s) can effectively only displace some of the water vapor already in the atmosphere because the energetic constraints don’t change.
Once you understood that, you can sit back and watch all the various CAGW scare stories and political shenanigans with bemusement.
Truthseeker says:
September 18, 2011 at 12:29 am
For those of you that are still under the illusion that the “greenhouse effect” actually exists, try this;
http://theendofthemystery.blogspot.com/2010/11/venus-no-greenhouse-effect.html
If that is true then the small increase in earths temperature is down to a small increase in the number of highs.
Kelvin Vaughan says:
September 18, 2011 at 1:39 am
Absolutely not. Soot preferentially absorbs short wave radiation, longwe wavelengths go around it. Imagine the effect of objects of various sizes in the ocean – waves reflect off large objects, narrow objects like pilings have little effect.
CO2 molecules sort of resonate at particular wavelengths and absorb those photons, then reradiate a moment later, they do not block short wavelengths (obviously they don’t block visible wavelengths). If vision were optimized for the wavelengths the Earth radiates, CO2 and other Greenhouse gasses would be colored – they’d both absorb and radiate the longer wavelengths. Objects in the distance would look bluish, but there would be a general reddish fog all around.
On the subject of health, I left hospital monday last after 11 days of torture and pain. Now that may seem like a plea for sympathy but it isn’t, I promise.
I suffered with a large stomach ulcer and repiratory infection. So what I hear you ask. Well, it triggered this old and fading memory of Dr. Marshal (maybe Alan) who discovered that 97% of all ulcers are bacterium induced. Why is that important? Well, Dr.Marshal faced a barrage of concensus science from his erstwhile colleagues in the profession. He suffered huge humiliation and refusal to publish at every step. In the end he was forced to ‘poison’ himself with the bateria he had grown from someone else’s ulcer.
Within days he had his proof. He had spent many years trying to persuade his fellow profeesionals of his reseach and failed. Sound familiar? Well, now go look at wikipedia and you will see the classic wiki re-write of history. How his colleagues were not sticking to thier consenses but waiting for acceptable evidence? Acceptable to them , of course.
In my opinion Marshal was the greatest scientist of the 20th century and, if not, certainly the greatest aussie.
Why do I think that, he has saved more lives, more surgical procedures, more pain than any other. He also risked his life to fight the consensus a consensus soo deeply rooted that even today we still think of ulcers as being stress induced acid reflux.
Dr. Marshal, I salut you. Thank you from the bottom of my stomach.
Didn’t know that: Hubbert was active in the Technocracy movement, says the WSJ:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904060604576572552998674340.html?mod=WSJ_hp_us_mostpop_read
Technocracy was, in a way, an early sustainability movement; they intended to power the entire “Technat” (USA plus Canada plus Mexico) with hydropower…
Time for some fun:
We have a solution for Global Warming:
Just look at all these fails cause by AGW:
IF only we can cut our CO2, this FAIL might not have happened:
Bob Diaz
Here’s a little thought experiment …
Assume you had a planet with and Earth-like atmosphere but no GHGs. Of course, that means no water, no clouds and no life. The question is … what would the average surface temperature of this planet be?
The surface would get the full effect of the Sun’s radiation. The surface would radiate some of it back to space but some of it would heat the atmosphere through conduction. While that process would be slow, the air temperature should rise and the heat would rise. And, since the air could not radiate away the heat, the temperature should build up during the day. At night the surface would continue to radiate the heat from the previous day and at some point the air would start heating the surface.
As this process continues over time the planet should reach an equilibrium temperature. The question is whether that temperature is higher or lower than Earth’s temperature.
It would be interesting to build a GCM of this planet and see what happens. If the planet became warmer than Earth one would have to conclude that GHGs provide a cooling effect. If the planet was cooler than Earth we’d conclude GHGs have a warming effect. And, if it comes out the same …
Anyone care to make an educated guess? I really have no idea but my best WAG would be the planet would be warmer. The inability of the atmosphere to cool itself would, IMO, have a larger effect than the effect of reducing outgoing radiation … but then that’s just a guess on my part.
Ric Werme says:
September 18, 2011 at 5:20 am
Kelvin Vaughan says:
September 18, 2011 at 1:39 am
Thanks for your reply Ric
Surely if CO2 reradiated the waves then then the spectum would not show the CO2 absoption bands?