Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
scott@scottlongonline.com
Notes from your wayward correspondent:
* Been working on a Slate piece that should see the light sometime this week. More on the gyroball.
* Been at work on one of the more lengthy blog-posts in a while. Very careful wording.
* Perturbed by a biased Amazon review. The guy insists on saying "Dr." Carroll, again perpetuating the myth that I've put myself out there as a doctor. It's clear he didn't read it and he has a vested interest in HGH. He should check out my work at Mesomorphosis if he thinks I'm anti-anything. I tried to find his number but the only one - at his "Institute for Natural Health" was out of service. Anyway, I'd love to talk to this guy. I'll give him ten minutes to make his case on my radio show. As with STP, people that have a vested financial interest are mobilizing against the book. While I take their opposition to the truth as a compliment, it still hurts to have negative reviews like this on Amazon. I wish there were a way to get Amazon to do something, but there's not. So I'll ask you - if you've read the book, please go give an honest Amazon review. Don't lie, don't tout, don't attack - just give some numbers to the people that come to the page to counter the negative.
* Looking forward to this week's NATA Convention. Should be interesting.
* So totally wasting most of Wednesday's work hours by going to see Batman Begins.
* Back soon. Promise.
You know, rightly or wrongly, that you're always going to get the knock on you that you're not a medical doctor. Honestly, I don't know if it helps or hurts this knock that you write with your father, who does have a non-M.D. Doctorate attached to his name, IIRC.
If Amazon had any kind of oversight over the reviews, I would not read any Amazon review. Let everyone have their soapbox, and let the listener make his decision. There are "read my reviews" links so that the reader, if he wanted, could find out more about the reviewer.
It would be appropriate for Amazon to have an "author rebuts" section so that the author has his say too.
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