<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: ear candles?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE>Hey, Tom Co= le---don’t pull that trigger so quick; did you know that Quackwatch is= totally funded by 4 or 5 different pharmaceutical manufacturers, and the su= btext is that anything remotely naturopathic, alternative, integrative, herb= al, or cutting edge is quackery, because: guess what? Those treatments don&#= 8217;t sell drugs, kids. I’m not a ranter or conspiracy geek, but it&#= 8217;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> and don’t be so smug, bubba.... :--) Go to <a href="http://www.quackwatch.org/01Quacker= yRelatedTopics/candling.html">http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTop= ics/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 s= aw ear candles and started wondering what "we" (of the piano tuner= persuasion) think of such a device? Everyone I know who has used ear candle= s 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 i= mproving your hearing. </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>