BINGO! Thanks Hank. holding GUMM is rank speculation
An unqualified Zicam study is more fodder for misinterpretation based on the lack of qualifying science than helpful for incrementing the knowledge of mankind. The Zicam study indicates that Zicam met some criteria of effect on unsubstantiated suspected viral forms, which forms could be one or a few or many of thousands of possibilities, and therefore there is promise that thousands of possibilities are treatable, implying cure for the common cold. There was no random test population, no characterization of the infectious agent, no controls on either of these key issues. Nothing can be concluded scientifically from such an unqualified and uncontrolled study.
What is most lamentable about this Zicam publication is the science that was not done. Some effect was observed by their criteria. It is all too easy to use the absence of meaningful science to launch a 'scientific' argument that is really describing observations that are indistinguishable from anecdote, by their merits. That is deplorable when used to deceive less knowing people, or non-scientists; which in business terms is fraud, whether the ignorant or idiot welcome it or not.
A question veering more to my sentiments...if zinc ions are a mild antiseptic, then I suppose adding some silver ions to a formulation so that the antiseptic qualities are increased, would be a major enhancement. Hey, maybe the GUMM enthusiasts will abandon ship and fly with this notion and back us. With your virology credentials and my corporate scientist credentials, among others, we should be worth megabucks hands down!...at least to a handful of vagrants on this thread. Nah. I couldn't do that in good faith, not even to the idiots, to whom I owe a debt of love (caring for their highest good), not greed. Inventing on thread is fun. Whoops, now I've probably spoiled Zicam II. Well there is always formulation with menthol as a kindly whiff. Whoops, there I go again. Zicam III is public domain. I know! Charcoal. Powdered charcoal should be added. It's a great absorbent of trace compounds. And through the wit of 'marketing' black nose could be turned into a mark of distinction...stay away from contact--I have a cold!
Best regards,
Marconi |
