I concur that AO performs a surgical dissection of the flaws of Hoot Mon's approach, especially its alarmist aspects.
I'd like to also call attention to Jar's reply to AO,
Message 14, because its information is equally important and well stated. AO evidently wasn't familiar with the true story of Sister Kinney and so takes Hoot Mon's assertions that she was vilified and her practices rejected at face value. He also accepts Hoot Mon's assumption that heat somehow inhibits the progress of the polio virus, which isn't true. Jar corrects these misimpressions.
--Percy
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