Katherine Harris Discovers Cure For Canker!
Well, not really. But she did get the state of Florida to spend six months trying the method she suggested for curing citrus canker destroying trees. Naturally, it was a wacky one. Jim Stratton writes in the Orlando Sentinel::
Researchers worked with a rabbi and a cardiologist to test "Celestial Drops," promoted as a canker inhibitor because of its "improved fractal design," "infinite levels of order" and "high energy and low entropy."But the cure proved useless against canker. That's because it was water -- possibly, mystically blessed water.
The "product is a hoax and not based on any credible known science," the state's chief of entomology, nematology and plant pathology wrote to agriculture officials and fellow scientists after testing Celestial Drops in October 2001.
In the same letter, Wayne Dixon recommended that the state break off its relationship with the promoters of Celestial Drops.
"We have expended considerable effort in trying to responsibly deal with this group and their products," he stated. "I wish to maintain our standing in the scientific community and not allow these individuals to use our hard-earned credibility for further name-dropping."
Dixon's sentiments were not a surprise to other scientists.
"The presentation of Celestial Drops as a citrus canker treatment was . . . largely unintelligible," according to a memo written more than a year earlier by one of the state's chief plant pathologists. "In general, the proposal comes across as unscientific and not worth pursuing."
So why did Florida spend months discussing and developing test protocols for Celestial Drops?
The initial push came from Harris, now a U.S. House representative and candidate for U.S. Senate. Harris, the granddaughter of legendary citrus baron Ben Hill Griffin Jr., said she was introduced to one of the product's promoters, New York Rabbi Abe Hardoon, in 2000.
Hardoon did not want to discuss Celestial Drops when contacted by the Orlando Sentinel.
Funny, I thought this was going to be about some sores on her mouth -- not hard to imagine with the Republican Helmet-Head hairstyle of hers.
Lena at July 6, 2005 6:00 AM
Lenas back!
This is so funny if you have ever had any high school chemistry. Holy water, blessed water, whatever water. There is a mother/2 sons trio that is now marketing "Kabbalah Water", which sells for about $3 a bottle. They claimed all sorts of spiritual and healing properties, and all backed up by University studies. Problem is the water was never tested by the Universities they claimed.
Jokes on us skeptics though- they have sold millions of bottles of the stuff.
eric at July 6, 2005 11:56 AM
ARRRGHHHH!!!! F*CKN SNAKE OIL SALESMEN!!!!
Goddyss at July 6, 2005 12:59 PM
Have a drink sweetheart. It's sooooooothing.... come be one of us.....
eric at July 6, 2005 2:33 PM
> I would hope that everyone here agrees...
Eric. Seriously.
> ...if the implications ARE true...
Which ones? That the Executive Branch is operated by craven, bloodthirty vipers who collect retarded schoolchildren's toes on string like Christmas popcorn and will stop at nothing, NOTHING, in their rapacious conquest of our dear planet?
Rove testified before the Grand Jury, and waived any claim to confidentiality from reporters with whom he spoke about this matter: Such reporters are therefore free to spill. (And of course, his boss is known for being a loyalty/discretion freak of the fiercest streak since Nixon.) And NOVAK testified before the GJ. Who's keeping secrets here?
I'm not even sure Plame was an agent. I think she was what you'd called a "white wine operative," meaning she knew how to keep up her end of a conversation at DC parties, where the source of her paycheck was known to all, including Achmed, the boy with the hors d'oeuvres... Even AFTER she had the twin newborns to care for.
Do me a favor and read this, and see this. Thereafter, we won't have to pretend that some monstrous person ratted James Bond out to Auric Goldfinger. I mean, since when does anyone care so much about the CIA anyway?
PS for wiggle room: I have no idea what's going on here and don't doubt that there's a very simple, (ie, damaging to Rove) explanation. But I have no idea what it could be. Or why the Times didn't squeal about it BEFORE last November 2. I suspect people who hate Rove are pretending that this is the end of the world in the same way that some people used to complain about Clinton's blowjobs: It may find traction in the hearts of the dim.
Crid at July 6, 2005 6:16 PM
Shit, wrong thread.
Crid at July 6, 2005 6:16 PM
*sigh*
You're so right.
I need a cocktail.
:twitch:
Goddyss at July 7, 2005 9:11 AM
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