<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Re: ear candles?</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>I tell you what, I don't know who to believe anymore, but= just plain sense, tells me "ear candles" is nuts! David= Ilvedson <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px;= PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid;= PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message From: David Andersen <BIGDA@GTE.NET> To:= Pianotech <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG> Received: Sun, 20 Feb 2005= 21:29:05 -0800 Subject: Re: ear candles? <BLOCKQUOTE> Hey, Tom Cole---don’t pull that trigger so quick; did you= know that Quackwatch is totally funded by 4 or 5 different= pharmaceutical manufacturers, and the subtext is that anything= remotely naturopathic, alternative, integrative, herbal, or= cutting edge is quackery, because: guess what? Those treatments= don’t sell drugs, kids. I’m not a ranter or conspiracy geek, but= it’s pretty obvious to me that pharma as an industry are lying,= dogmatic, judgemental, mechanistic entities who have little= vested interest whatsover in healing---sadly, only in symptom= suppression. Go here:  <A= href="http://quackpotwatch.org/">http://quackpotwatch.org/</A><B= R> and don’t be so smug, bubba.... :--) Go to= <A= href="http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/candling= html">http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/candling= html</A> Tom Cole ilex cameron ross= wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>    hello hello= again, list!   Soooo, I= was in some airy fairy gift shop today and saw ear candles and= started wondering what "we" (of the piano tuner persuasion)= think of such a device? Everyone I know who has used ear candles= says they're just incredible, that even if you clean your ears= regularly, these things manage to extract all sorts of gunk out= of there, thus vastly improving your hearing.= </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT= face=Verdana><FONT= color=#0000ff> </DIV></BODY></HTML>