[pct-l] To " Filter or Treat"...or not to..."Filter and Treat"

CHUCK CHELIN steeleye at wildblue.net
Fri Sep 7 08:51:51 CDT 2012


Good morning,

Diogenes, fetch your lantern!  I just found who you’ve been looking for
these last 2,500 years.

Steel-Eye

-Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09/


On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:40 AM, <abiegen at cox.net> wrote:

> One final comment on the discussion of treatment of water/giardia/etc.
>
> About two years ago I had a similar exchange with Ken on the pct-l. I had
> posited that you should expose yourself to as many germs as possible so
> that your immune system would work better. I said that if you didn't use
> your immune system it would get into trouble attacking your own body. Ken
> strongly disagreed and said that that theory was without merit. The
> exchange went back and forth for several emails. I posed my sources, Ken
> knocked them down as unreliable.
>
> Well recently a study of previous studies was done and determined that the
> theory that your immune system would get into trouble without external
> threats had little or no support in all the studies reviewed. It was an
> unsupported guess.
>
> I'm man enough and scientist enough that I will now state publicly that
> Ken was correct and I was wrong. I won't apologize to Ken because that
> exchange didn't include any name calling or low blows. We had both
> expressed our views and sources strongly which is how science progresses.
> When more conclusive proof is uncovered, you accept it and move forward.
>
> I personally enjoyed all the facts and sources shared in the recent
> exchange. A lot of information got passed back and forth. I understand that
> the stridency come from people not wanting other thrus to either ruin their
> hike by getting sick or not wanting thrus to waste their time and effort on
> a ritual that is not necessary. I go back and forth on the issue, sometimes
> treating, sometimes not.
>
> Now on the name calling; well I am reminded of Edison and Tesla. Yes,
> sometimes science goes in that direction too and things can get ugly. But
> sometimes the stakes can be pretty high and people get so emotionally
> attached to their position that it becomes personal.
>
> Someday you guys may meet on the trail and hopefully you will bump
> knuckles instead of bumping heads. I find everyone to be really pleasant on
> the trail probably because the trail just consumes testosterone and
> adrenalin (please don't send me a bunch of links refuting that, I am just
> kidding). While on the list, the further away you get from kickoff and
> spring, the more testosterone and adrenalin build up and seek another
> outlet.
>
> TrailHacker
>
> --
> "When my foot is in my mouth, I can't hike"
> TH
>
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