Comments on: Happy Saturday http://www.sixredheads.com/2006/07/22/happy-saturday-2/ Conscious Living....Deliberate Living. Deciding what I want to strive for and then setting goals to get there... "But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people because they think their dreams into reality with eyes wide open." Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:05:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Joel http://www.sixredheads.com/2006/07/22/happy-saturday-2/#comment-2321 Joel Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:19:26 +0000 http://www.sixredheads.com/2006/07/22/happy-saturday-2/#comment-2321 I've found increasingly that facts are irrelevant to most news. They're treated as nuisances in most cases. It sounds like he didn't write an article, he wrote what I like to call the "informed opinion" article in which he starts with his opinion and works backwards to cherry-pick supporting evidence from "experts" and ignore detracting evidence. In other words, the ends justify the means. If he gets caught he'll never be called a liar, just "mistaken". I’ve found increasingly that facts are irrelevant to most news. They’re treated as nuisances in most cases. It sounds like he didn’t write an article, he wrote what I like to call the “informed opinion” article in which he starts with his opinion and works backwards to cherry-pick supporting evidence from “experts” and ignore detracting evidence. In other words, the ends justify the means. If he gets caught he’ll never be called a liar, just “mistaken”.

]]> By: Tia http://www.sixredheads.com/2006/07/22/happy-saturday-2/#comment-2320 Tia Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:05:29 +0000 http://www.sixredheads.com/2006/07/22/happy-saturday-2/#comment-2320 One thing they stress in the Credenda Agenda is being open to "secular" cultural materials and evaluating them, disregarding content that is not central to an otherwise worthy point. It seemed to me that he did not carry that philosophy into his analysis of whatever books on waterbirth (or midwifery) that he read. Furthermore, he stated an outright mistruth, that babies can "drown" in waterbirth. They can't, because as they are born they have not taken a breath with their lungs yet. It is not until they are raised out of the water that they will take their first breath. I think he used that line as an inflammatory scare tactic that seemed out of place in an otherwise appropriate and challenging article about the father's involvement in the birth of his child. Infant mortality is far away more common due to mainine medical practices gone awry than waterbirth and midwifery. I think he "threw the baby out with the bathwater" haa haa, when he disregarded the entire practice because one segment of users may have pagan or mystical belief systems. Plenty of mainline medical professionals have objectionable beliefs in their personal lives as well and yet I didn't get the impression that he was cautioning anyone to examine that when choosing a birth venue. Oh...there's tons more to say. I didn't even touch two other major points. I think that particular article was inconsistant with what he teaches, to say the least. One thing they stress in the Credenda Agenda is being open to “secular” cultural materials and evaluating them, disregarding content that is not central to an otherwise worthy point. It seemed to me that he did not carry that philosophy into his analysis of whatever books on waterbirth (or midwifery) that he read. Furthermore, he stated an outright mistruth, that babies can “drown” in waterbirth. They can’t, because as they are born they have not taken a breath with their lungs yet. It is not until they are raised out of the water that they will take their first breath. I think he used that line as an inflammatory scare tactic that seemed out of place in an otherwise appropriate and challenging article about the father’s involvement in the birth of his child. Infant mortality is far away more common due to mainine medical practices gone awry than waterbirth and midwifery. I think he “threw the baby out with the bathwater” haa haa, when he disregarded the entire practice because one segment of users may have pagan or mystical belief systems. Plenty of mainline medical professionals have objectionable beliefs in their personal lives as well and yet I didn’t get the impression that he was cautioning anyone to examine that when choosing a birth venue.

Oh…there’s tons more to say. I didn’t even touch two other major points. I think that particular article was inconsistant with what he teaches, to say the least.

]]> By: Rachel http://www.sixredheads.com/2006/07/22/happy-saturday-2/#comment-2314 Rachel Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:33:59 +0000 http://www.sixredheads.com/2006/07/22/happy-saturday-2/#comment-2314 I wondered what you would think about the latest Credenda...I think Wilson's a mainline medical guy. I guess we should think about the "why" of what we do, mainline or not. I wondered what you would think about the latest Credenda…I think Wilson’s a mainline medical guy. I guess we should think about the “why” of what we do, mainline or not.

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