Zep said:
Incidentally for the newer forum members, just to let you know: Kumar came in the door here more than 18 months ago and the first thing he trotted out was this "silica disease" thingie he has just reiterated here. Suffice to say, we have been through this in excrutiatingly extended detail with him, and it didn't sink in then. It won't sink in now either.
Just letting you know... Carry on!
Ah, pre-empted by Zep once again.
Searching for posts by Kumar referring to silica, silicea, fluoride and suchlike can be very illuminating. I would especially commend the thread entitled "
Cancer assumption" in this respect, containing as it does some of the most amazing ideas about silica being present on or in cancer cells, but scientists not recognising this because silica is glass, therefore it can't be distinguished from the glass of the microscope slide....
There was also a thread about fluoride as a waste product being used to treat water supplies, which Kumar seemed to have pasted from an anti-fluoridation web site, but I can't find that one now. The most relevant fluoride thread available at present seems to be "
Let us forget & discuss", where, in December 2003 no less, he posted the following.
Can you please tell about the cycle & physiology OR patho-physiology of three minor elements in body-- fluorine, silicon & sulphur? These may bit less attended elements & so could be interesting to discuss.
And what is all this about? Well, it goes all the way back to Kumar's obsession with Schüssler's tissue salts, as in the end everything always does. One of the theories he originally came to this forum to try to prove was the very original idea that in fact all homoeopathic remedies are actually the tissue salt remedy silicea, and that this in fact is how homoeopathy works - silicea is, in this amazing scenario, the universal cure for everything. And by virtue of being ground up using stone mortars and pestles, and/or being stored in glass bottles, all homoeopathic remedies have this tiny trace of silicea in them, and hey presto, that's the secret of their curative properties. This idea can be seen in
one of Kumar's earliest threads, in the very first post, though it didn't actually go anywhere at that point. (I see he even introduced the bit about "old whisky" at that point - pity that indefinite storage in glass bottles doesn't actually alter whisky the tiniest little bit, in fact the aging of whisky is dependent on its being stored in old oak sherry casks, from which it takes on the flavour of the wood and the other spirit.)
The way Kumar keeps coming back to the silicea thing, in this underhand and dishonest way ("Concepts: Immunities, Resistances, Allergies?" indeed!) makes me suspect that he hasn't wavered an inch from this idea, all the time he has been here. This is of course why he's not so popular on homoeopathy boards either. His agenda is aimed at telling them all their 3,000-odd remedies are an illusion, individualisation is a myth, and all homoeopathic remedies are equally and alike the TRS silicea remedy.
In fact one of these threads I linked to has one of the first attempts to get Kumar to go study, go learn, or even go read a book. All to no avail, of course. However, his reason is quite an enlightening one. He's afraid that he might become sceptical, and be forced to change his mind. Which rather begs the question of why he comes here I suppose, but maybe he sees us as less authoritative than books.
Now, I had to take him off ignore in order to link to one of his posts in another thread. Time to go put him back on the good old ignore list.
Rolfe.
