Dear Blog Readers
We do appreciate you coming over to visit and you commenting to this blog. Blog comments usually start a lively discussion on the blog entry - thereby they are important components of an active blog.
However, there are two things that I (and perhaps other readers of this blog) consider as a “turn-off”:
First of all, if your comment is thrice as long as the blog entry itself, do you think readers will still read it? You might as well be brief and direct to the point. Even I get lost and end up wondering what the point is exactly after reading a comment that is awfully long. If you really think you have a lot to say, why not write what you need to say on the matter in your own blog and then linking to my post? That way too, we both benefit from the link exchange and the traffic we will incur by the exercise.
One more thing, while I agree that blogs are venue for personal opinions and discussions, please do not use the comment section of any blog as a venue to throw a personal attack at anybody else commenting in there.
My two cents anyway. What do think?
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6 opinions for Dear Blog Readers
Mark
Oct 3, 2007 at 9:00 am
Geez, did they hafta dig up a three month old post to regenerate their anger towards each other?
Well, I have now had my first cancer experience and, although it has ended satisfactorily, I’m still in pain and that doesn’t feel so good.
A Basil Cell Carcinoma was removed from my nose yesterday morning. Three hours later they told me they got it all. Thank God! Only now I had to have “plastic surgery” on my snoz. There wasn’t anything plastic about it and now my nose looks like something out of the Hunchback of Notre Dame and hurts like he**!
Yep, love the sun… :(
Gloria
Oct 3, 2007 at 9:29 am
yeah…;-)
anyways, glad you are ok now. would you mind writing a short one about your cancer story. then i’d post it here. if you don’t mind.
Mark
Oct 3, 2007 at 10:34 am
Gloria,
I just got your email and am about to go to bed for the night. It isn’t really much but I’ll get a short blurb to ya’ in the next day or so, okay? No doubt will have a lot to do with sun…
Mark (yes, I also write at A Dozen Steps)
Gregory D. Pawelski
Oct 4, 2007 at 7:55 am
I do agree with you Gloria, the ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is probably the most important part of most blogs. The interactive format allows rapid responses to medical and health care issues which frequently intertwine moral, ethical and legal concerns, and provides valuable feedback and commentary not available through traditional media. And independent thought (not to be confused with lack of evidence) can be cheerished on sites like this (afterall, it is titled Cancer Commentary).
But I don’t like vicious personal attacks on my character and commentary just like I’m sure many of you don’t. But I’ve been needlessly attacked by someone who finds it enjoyable to do so not only at me but many other commentors on other blogs (particularly the now defunct Cancer Blog). She seems to have to nick pick each and every comment someone makes that is outside her little realm of quackwatch attitudes. I do not like her bully tactics and unjustified discrediting of leading innovators, scientists and health practitioners, any less than anyone else on this blog.
hchcec
Oct 4, 2007 at 11:27 am
Commentary from Gregory Pawelski:
1. Most cancers do not respond well to chemo or radiation.
2.The notion that patients treated by conventional therapies live longer than untreated victims is biased
3.orthodox therapies often do more harm than good.
4.cancer treatment can damage the heart and cause deaths from heart failure.
5.the oncologist knows it is just the eye in the hurricane. The eye passes all to quickly, and then the patient is beaten by the back half of the storm, which is more deadly than the front.
6.He/she’s already worried about the day to come, when the really bad news needs to be delivered to the patient and the remission is instantly forgotten.
7.I sincerely care about cancer patients and cancer families.
All right here:
http://www.cancercommentary.com/2007/07/08/the-power-of-the-immune-system-against-cancer/#comment-67925
There you have him. He says this is selective. But, this is his M.O. Scare you into buying his cell assay test. Hey, I’d be frightened, too if I read this guy’s posts and I had cancer. He sounds schooled, yet he has no science background, no science degree, no laboratory experience, no patient treatment experience, no understanding tof the importance of the scientific method. He just wants you to buy his test.
I encourage you to go to thecancerblog.com as I systematically refute almost every one of his declarations. (And, GP, really, it’s just you I refute there. I may comment nicely to others afew times, but your prolific posts demanded more.)
Fighting for Mike
Oct 5, 2007 at 9:24 am
Hi Gloria - Nice work you are doing here! I wanted to know if I could send you some information, or if you just want to look at the bog, on my BIL. He has been struggling with cancer now for over a year and the doctors have given him four months - 2 years to live. Our family is not taking his diagnosis lying down, though. We are all trying to help him through this battle and I started the blog that is linked to my comment here.
His chemotherapy treatments are $3,000 each and that is what him and his wife have to pay. We are trying to do some different things to help raise funds for his treatments and for his supplements he needs to boost his immune system. You can contact me through http://fightingformike.blogspot.com or at fightformike@hotmail.com. Thanks!
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