Comments for The Book of Pete

Comment on Photo Finish by pablo

pablo — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:34:02 +0000

perhaps he was feeling in the Olympic spirit.

Comment on Freedom of speech? by pablo

pablo — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:40:00 +0000

numerous thumbs up !!!!! jones & abbot seems 2 b responding 2 polling that suggests 80 percent of oz blokes have a prob with women in authority – jones is an idiot & whether abbot is or is not mysoginist is beside the point – he’s playing 2 a demographic that is – the ALP seems 2 b playing a longer,broader game of ‘ do we want
a country that is still this patriarchal/mysoginist ?’

Comment on Freedom of speech? by Libby Riches

Libby Riches — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:04:47 +0000

Right on, lover!

Comment on Modern Crusaders – Intellectual Fascists by Pete Mawhinney

Pete Mawhinney — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:58:21 +0000

Thanks Carole

Comment on Modern Crusaders – Intellectual Fascists by Carole Hubbard

Carole Hubbard — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:46:34 +0000

Great response by Pete to this Sydney Morning Herald article.
If science based medicine was so good let them find cures for ms, alzheimers, arthritis, autism, allergies, asthma etc.
Everything shouldn’t need to be reduced to the rigours of scientific testing. There are too many of these skeptic and scientific groups who think that no other methods have any validity, yet holistic medicine often does better long-term than conventional medicine.

Comment on Modern Crusaders – Intellectual Fascists by Pete Mawhinney

Pete Mawhinney — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:14:34 +0000

Thanks Karen;

I knew there be research out there but it’s difficult to make simple statements about such a broad topic.

I love your point about common sense. It’s so true. One of my favourite giggles is when you hear in the news, “scientists have discovered something everyone else has always known.”

Comment on Modern Crusaders – Intellectual Fascists by Karen

Karen — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:05:41 +0000

Hi Pete
thanks for coming out in defence of logic and reason….very scientific of you LOL.
just wanted to say that your statement…..”The bottom line is that western science doesn’t know if they work or not” is not entirely accurate. There are actually tonnes of research papers now confirming that herbal medicine and nutritional therapies (amongst other things) do Work.
But really it is like we have lost all common sense now and we need a research to prove that vegetables are good for us. I mean, come on – just because there isn’t a randomised controlled trial into something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have any merit.

Comment on Modern Crusaders – Intellectual Fascists by Pete Mawhinney

Pete Mawhinney — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:31:40 +0000

Thanks T.A. I love Tim Minchin.

The problem in this case is that, scientifically speaking, (I’m talking about western science here) these therapies are neither proven nor dis-proven and these scientists are trying to use this to suggest they don’t work. In fact they don’t know if they work or not. If they wanted to know they could start by asking the millions of people around the world who use these therapies.

Comment on Modern Crusaders – Intellectual Fascists by T.A.

T.A. — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:56:04 +0000

“Alternative medicine has either not been proved to work,
Or been proved not to work.
Do you know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work?
… MEDICINE.”
- from ‘Storm’ by Tim Minchin.

Comment on Photo Finish by Pete Mawhinney

Pete Mawhinney — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:17:17 +0000

That’s what I thought Kate. It was not terribly long after 911. I nervously anticipated searches requiring rubber gloves and folded postures.