Comments on: The Debate at Guy’s Hospital http://drkaplan.co.uk/2009/04/homeopathy/the-debate-at-guys-hospital/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 21 May 2012 15:59:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Dr. Kaplan http://drkaplan.co.uk/2009/04/homeopathy/the-debate-at-guys-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Dr. Kaplan Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:11:17 +0000 http://drkaplan.co.uk/2009/04/homeopathy/the-debate-at-guys-hospital/#comment-14 Apologies are rather unfashionable these days. Visual aids are not that important but I guess if you rely on them it's disconcerting if you can't use them. Baum even said 'the next picture shows' when he knew he couldn't show a picture. That there wss no control over the debate was more worrying. When a member of the audience read out 2 pages of typed notes as a 'prelude' to a question, an attempt was made to get him to ask a question, but when he insisted on reading his speech, he was simply allowed to continue. These sort of incidents worry me because the universities could simply decide not to open these debates to the public - which would be a great pity. Brian Kaplan. Apologies are rather unfashionable these days. Visual aids are not that important but I guess if you rely on them it’s disconcerting if you can’t use them. Baum even said ‘the next picture shows’ when he knew he couldn’t show a picture. That there wss no control over the debate was more worrying. When a member of the audience read out 2 pages of typed notes as a ‘prelude’ to a question, an attempt was made to get him to ask a question, but when he insisted on reading his speech, he was simply allowed to continue. These sort of incidents worry me because the universities could simply decide not to open these debates to the public – which would be a great pity.

Brian Kaplan.

]]> By: leon chaitow http://drkaplan.co.uk/2009/04/homeopathy/the-debate-at-guys-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-13 leon chaitow Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:58:59 +0000 http://drkaplan.co.uk/2009/04/homeopathy/the-debate-at-guys-hospital/#comment-13 Thanks for a balanced review. Sadly though, if the audience was largely pro-CAM at the outset, the efforts of Drs Lewith and Peters are unlikely to have made much impact on those who really should hear the other side of the story Did the organizers apologise for poor management of the proceedings? Thanks for a balanced review.
Sadly though, if the audience was largely pro-CAM at the outset, the efforts of Drs Lewith and Peters are unlikely to have made much impact on those who really should hear the other side of the story
Did the organizers apologise for poor management of the proceedings?

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