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["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Well Dieter look at who is making the money. I don't have even a book to 
sell with all my misgivings about charcoal. I simply can not call it biochar 
for that is an oxymoron to me since char is far from bio.
If you wan't to make a profit then join the hype wave and that is what I see 
happening.
john

> John, I understand your point about challenging "established facts".  In 
> fact, I'm a Taoist at heart and feel that the truth is no longer competley 
> true as soon as it is expressed.  This is really pushing it to an extreme, 
> but there is some truth to it in that no matter how noble and 
> well-intended a cause may be, as soon as it turns into established dogma, 
> it will invariably produce all kinds of negative effects.
>
> But I guess, biochar advocates would argue that is the the critics who are 
> full of dogma because they refuse to see the benefits of biochar.
>
> Dieter
>
> --- On Sat, 11/19/11, John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net> wrote:
>
> > From: John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net>
> > Subject: Re: [permaculture] Biochar
> > To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011, 6:56 PM
> >
> > Take some other examples then Dieter.
> > For 50 years fat was bad and salt was to be avoided and
> > vaccinations were
> > good and cholesterol was bad. Most still believe this even
> > if the medical
> > literature is absolutely full with articles prooving the
> > oposite and many
> > alternative doctors know better. Only when they put their
> > heads up too high
> > they get chopped off by the establishment.
> > On the other hand at one time blood letting was THE cure
> > all in medicine and
> > it was an established fact too that prefrontal lobotomy was
> > good for general
> > anxiety. How many juveniles were castrated because their
> > parents had seen
> > them masturbate and feared their child would go blind? The
> > list is endless.
> > I find established facts very dangerous things even if many
> > say that a
> > million lemmings can't be wrong.
> > Other than that our takes on charcoal are much the same.
> > john
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