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> Adding salt to tomato enhance the perceived flavor by (among other things)
> adding electrolites into water-based extraction process (what do you think
> salive is for?) So it is nit AFET, APRE, POST adding.

>> Again, and as I said from the beginning, none of this seems new or
>> groundbreaking to me. I think it much ado about nothing. I don't say
>> that in a mean or demeaning way, and I certainly do not mean to
>> offend... but I think that no matter how you come at this, it comes
>> back to one of two ideas:
>>
>> 1.) The tomato example from above, where the flavor has been enhanced
>> after the fact.
>> or
>> 2.) Homeopathy, where the least amount of some substance is supposed to
>> have the greatest effect. And to the point of complete absense being
>> the "best."
>
> First of all it was not I who discovered this (and I use the word discovery
> without hesitation), but DogMa.
> Second - tomato example has nothing to do witth this - see above.
> Third - I would not even touch homeopathy as an argument here precisely
> because its mechanism were never understood or even expalined - that is why
> allopaths (the "normal" doctors) still make an argument that homeopathy is
> cookery and until today it is not accepted by AMA as "scientific" medicine
> and that is why your insurance company never pays for homeopathic
> treatments.
>
>> I believe in the former as homeopathy makes no logical or scientific
>> sense. Just my 2 cents on the matter.
>
> I happen to work right now side-by-side with one of the greatest minds of
> our times - the guy who founded Cetus Corp and under whose supervision the
> PCR was invented for which Cetus scientists recei\ved 1992 Nobel prize. His
> name is Peter Farley and guess what he does after all that spectacular
> success? He leads a company that combines homeopathic approach with
> traditional Chinese medicine.
> And as opposed to your 2 cents this is multi-million dollar effort.

Hi Sasha!

I'm proud to say that I work right now with, and side-by-side with, some of
the dullest minds of our times, whose identity I will protect, as far as
syntax allows. I fail to see how Dominic's tomato example is erroneous or
not relevant. The original contention, in simple language, is that adding a
spot of mineral water will noticably enhance the taste of tea; the
contention of the tomato example is that a spot of salt or sugar on the
tomato will enhance the taste of said tomato; a good enough analogy for me
and my friends described above.

Michael