Colloidal Silver is an incredible remedy and FREE!

First I will address the burden of proof. Solarman has presented an extraordinary clam, namely that a single chemical can cure all pathogen-caused diseases known to man. This puts the burden of proof on him, just as the burden of proof would be on me were I to claim that AIDS is not caused by the HIV virus. Not only has he failed to prove his claim, I have cast more than enough doubt on his arguments to justify disregarding them. In his final argument, Solarman claimed that he had proved two essential points: first, that colloidal silver is an effective anti-pathogen and second that it is nearly free. The second point is technically true, if you ignore the fact that "home-made" colloidal silver greatly increases the risk of argyria's permanent disfigurement and vision impairment, which I will return to. He has utterly failed to prove the first point. He relies on three sources. The first, at http://aem.asm.org..., is a peer-reviewed article that shows that, in a petri dish, silver ions (not colloidal silver) can kill E. coli. However, as I have pointed out repeatedly, the ability to kill bacteria in a petri dish is not evidence of disease-fighting ability. Vodka is quite good at killing bacterial cultures, but I wouldn't recommend drinking yourself into a stupor to cure the flu. Similarly, many antibiotics, cancer drugs, and antivirals that have shown promise in the lab have failed in human trials because the human body is drastically different from a petri dish. No studies have ever shown that colloidal silver can treat any disease. The other two sources are quite easily dismissed. One cites no sources, and therefore is not in the least bit useful, and the other cites only pre-penicillin articles and and article published by "Science Digest," a magazine that made itself famous with its articles "proving" the existence of UFOs and spontaneous human combustion. Solarman claims that I have tried to change the topic by raising questions about silver's safety. Well, if you ever get cancer, I have something guaranteed to kill every cancer cell in your body. Potassium cyanide. Safety goes hand in hand with efficacy. The reason I mentioned the "hucksters" is because Solarman asked what people have to lose by using silver. I repeat my arguments: it's expensive to buy, it carries the risk of disfigurement and vision impairment, and the false belief that silver can cure diseases encourages people to delay actual treatment. Now, we come to the weighing of evidence. Solarman has failed to prove a single point of his, and has retreated from several of them. At first he claimed that silver can kill all viruses, then dropped that argument (and, then, interestingly, called people who claim silver can kill HIV "hucksters"). I, on the other hand, have given several reasons and pieces of evidence showing that silver does not work. We see that there is no possible way for silver to interfere with virus reproduction and there is no evidence for its claimed ability to treat bacterial infection. Moreover, despite Solarman's borderline-paranoid denials, argyria is a real condition, and a common result of ingesting silver. As Solarman demanded, I provided a peer-reviewed paper on argyria, which he promptly ignored. Beyond argyria, as I pointed out, it is quite probable that ingestion of large amounts of silver can interfere with normal growth rates. In sum, Solarman has failed to prove any of his points (as is his obligation as proponent of the theory), and I have proved all of mine.