Re: Tomatis (was : Probability Biasing)

mbgupta@julian.uwo.ca
Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:43:08 -0500

Hi Jean-Pierre:

See comments in text

Thx

Chris Gupta

>I interviewed Alfred Tomatis a few times, read all his books and even
>underwent a "Tomatis cure" at his lab, so I'm quite familiar with him. Here
>is something to complement Mathias' account.

What books are you referring too can you recommend a good one to start with?

>Let me add that my experience with Tomatis (about 10 years ago) was
>especially enlightening for me. Until then I was a "normal" science writer,
>with a cursory interest for controversial science. When I did my piece on
>Tomatis, I also interviewed mainstream ear specialists about him. I knew
>they thought he was a quack. I wanted to know why. I found out that they
>knew nothing about him. They didn't met him, nor any of his patients, they
>never went to his lab, they never even read his books ! ... It was all based
>on rumours. And they deemed as impossible things I had been seeing and
>hearing for weeks. I guess that's when I lost half my faith in conventional
>science... (Still keeping the other half, though...comes in handy
sometimes...)

I have repeatedly found all kinds of armchair critics especially the
professionals. They are most skeptic and also most stupid (another word for
arrogant) in anything they don't understand. Like they say "over confidence
kills". Its funny how many opinions people have on things they have not
idea about! Wish they would put the brains in gear before their mouths.

>Cheers to all
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>Jean-Pierre Lentin

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