Collidal Silver- science based debate on its effectiveness and the lying propaganda aginst it

Welcome to reality. The main pathogens in humans are Bacteria, Viruses, Protozoa, Fungi, Parasites, Proteins. So, TB, Flu, Malaria, Athlete's foot, tapeworm, and mad cow... to name a well known one from each. I suppose one might also offer cancers and certain toxic exposures, for example arygria caused ingesting silver. You say that "Todays topic concerns COLLOIDAL SILVER, which has incredible and magic powers to aid human beings." -- Magic powers are right. They apparently manage to do amazing helpful things and aren't effective at all in lab studies. Silver has been known for centuries, and has very few side effects... in fact, it has very few effects period. My great grandmother didn't toss around silver dollars, in fact, a silver dollar was a lot of money and wasting milk by letting it sit in the heat during the summertime would have been a lot like tossing around silver dollars. Also, oddly enough, silver dollars don't dissolve. Believe it or not you actually need to electrolyze the silver to get it off something silver. You claim the Greeks knew the medical value of Silver. Well, the Greeks also knew the medical value of blood letting. Nowadays we do tests on such things rather than simply taking the word of the ancient Greeks. We find ourselves (read make) some sick mice. Give them half of them what we want to test. Compare recovery between the half that got the test substance and that half that didn't. Lo and behold... Colloidal Silver produced no difference in recovery or mortality. This is the kind of test done and failed ergo the reason the FDA doesn't allow you to make claims that this stuff cures anything. Royals lived with less illness. Why, it must be something amazing! I mean what part of being rich, not living is squalor, not drinking dirty water, and not having horrific hygiene could conceivably explain this difference? They use to also prescribe you mercury to drink, it was a fantastic laxative (mostly because it was heavy and pushed). Colloidal silver is rapidly gaining favor? You back this up by somebody working in the SILVER institute from 1978! Wow, if it was that rapid in 1978 everybody must be using it now, especially considering the results that using Colloidal silver is exactly as effective as not using it... though not using it has the side effect of not turning you blue. Most of the rest of this crap is cut and pasted. Though the asm.org study you posted is a real study. But it isn't about Colloidal Silver, rather it's silver nitrate. A little bit of chemistry will show you that all silver is not colloidal. Colloidal means it's just tiny silver particles. Silver nitrate is AgNO3 rather than Ag. This causes one massive difference, rather than just causing you to turn blue, the AgNO3 is toxic to bacteria AND humans. To make an analogy, say I claim that salt will protect you from cancer. Now if I back this up by showing that when I subject cancer cells to chlorine gas they die, when I subject them to sodium they die, and salt is perfectly harmless! The fact is, Sodium Chloride is harmless, but Na and Cl2 are both extremely deadly. The fact that they would be deadly to cancer cells and that salt is harmless to me, doesn't allow for this comparison. Na and Cl are deadly to me and cancer, NaCl is deadly to neither cancer nor me. Though, you're not even making this cogent of an argument, you're just pretending that AgNO3 is Ag. If you honestly feel that that study is evidence for your claim, I honestly feel bad for you. I hope you are just being deceitful, dishonest and lying because the alternative is that you are so scientifically ignorant as to warrant pity. http://en.wikipedia.org... Based on the criteria of a "science based debate" -- that should have you disqualified.