Sandra Dodd

I'm still reading the pro- and anti-Steiner stuff. Found this:

"Steiner�s descriptions of various bodily organs and their functions
differ markedly from those found in medical textbooks. He declared,
for example, that the heart is not a pump and that blood circulates of
its own accord, thanks to the vital force it embodies [6]. Likewise,
he taught that the brain is not involved in cognition [7]. For
Steiner, true cognition was the exercise of paranormal powers made
possible when individuals develop �organs of clairvoyance.� [8]"

http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/steiner.html

So I would like to suggest that if ANY of the anti-TV stuff comes from
Waldorf/Steiner/anthroposophical medicine, it should be junked up front.

Not that science is always perfect, and not that "correlation" seems
to be the current darling of scientific studies, but that same site
says this, and I didn't go to the footnote:

"Anthroposophical physicians do not appear to conduct double-blind
controlled experiments [9], so it is almost impossible to evaluate
their success rates. "

Perhaps TV is interfering with the developing organs of clairvoyance
or something.

Sandra

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zoie dubinsky

http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/steiner.html

So I would like to suggest that if ANY of the anti-TV stuff comes from
Waldorf/Steiner/anthroposophical medicine, it should be junked up front.



---Also on this site are things about acupuncture and homeopathy? Quackery?



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From: Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sun, January 24, 2010 12:17:21 PM
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] TV-harm theories

I'm still reading the pro- and anti-Steiner stuff. Found this:

"Steiner’s descriptions of various bodily organs and their functions
differ markedly from those found in medical textbooks. He declared,
for example, that the heart is not a pump and that blood circulates of
its own accord, thanks to the vital force it embodies [6]. Likewise,
he taught that the brain is not involved in cognition [7]. For
Steiner, true cognition was the exercise of paranormal powers made
possible when individuals develop “organs of clairvoyance.” [8]"

http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/steiner.html

So I would like to suggest that if ANY of the anti-TV stuff comes from
Waldorf/Steiner/anthroposophical medicine, it should be junked up front.

Not that science is always perfect, and not that "correlation" seems
to be the current darling of scientific studies, but that same site
says this, and I didn't go to the footnote:

"Anthroposophical physicians do not appear to conduct double-blind
controlled experiments [9], so it is almost impossible to evaluate
their success rates. "

Perhaps TV is interfering with the developing organs of clairvoyance
or something.

Sandra

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Lyla Wolfenstein

yeah i wouldn't recommend quackwatch as a source - highly biased.



http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/steiner.html

So I would like to suggest that if ANY of the anti-TV stuff comes from
Waldorf/Steiner/anthroposophical medicine, it should be junked up front.

---Also on this site are things about acupuncture and homeopathy? Quackery?



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Sandra Dodd

-=-So I would like to suggest that if ANY of the anti-TV stuff comes
from
Waldorf/Steiner/anthroposophical medicine, it should be junked up front.

---Also on this site are things about acupuncture and homeopathy?
Quackery? -=-


Does that follow?
I didn't say anything on that site should be junked.

IF (if) the "scientific" explanations of why young children shouldn't
watch TV came from Steiner or Waldorf, then I think they should be
disregarded as being part and parcel of Rudolf's visit to the fantasy
realm.

If that site puts up a page about unschooling and says its quackery,
that wouldn't make me swallow my tail like a snake in a fable.

Each person looks and thinks and makes connections. I'm connecting
"TV will hurt you" with "the heart doesn't pump blood" and that the
brain isn't the organ of thought. Perhaps my connection is flawed.

And maybe acupuncture and homeopathy are quackery; I don't know or care.
From the point of view of many professional educators, unschooling is
surely quackery. I don't care about that either.

Sandra

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