Fish oil brands

Let’s take the aggression down a couple of clicks here people.

You’re lucky I’m a tolerant moderator. Let’s try again.

Apart from your adoration of him, can you offer anything of substance to back up his claims? Or any insight into his reasoning?

If you can’t, say so.

BTW, thanks for the compliment about my big prick. :)

I can. And you’re not worth the explanation. Ask Para-Goomba to explain it to you; I’m going to bed.

What about all the other members reading this? Aren’t they worth your explanation?

I take the Sears and the Carlsons. Money is tight for me right now, that’s an understatement, but I personally think the Sears brand is worth it. It is much more expensive; I’m not going to bother to do the math.

The people who switched switched to approximately the same EPA/DHA dosage. They just took less pills than they had been taking. They were men and women who had gone on my diet and switched brands.

I am not going to say anything more about the doctor. I wish I hadn’t even brought up his name in this thread. It was a personal telephone conversation. You’re a moderator; feel free to delete all mention of him from this thread if this bothers you.

I am thinking about switching to a cheaper pharmaceutical brand, however. But I still have a month’s worth of the Sears on hand.

Zane, I know how you feel. Being asked the same question over and over. You start to wonder whether it’s worth replying back because you know that it will cause them to continue asking the same question again and again. I am basically being asked to do all of my research all over again, which took me weeks/months, just so that it makes someone here happy. "Provide me with this proof, provide me with that proof". I explain why I’m not in a position to give them certain information anymore and yet they still continue to ask for it anyway, over and over and over. It makes replying to them pointless. I am talking to Zane by the way, so I do not want to be quoted by anyone because I am not talking to you, so mind your own business!

Zane, Carlsons is good. I wish I could get it in the UK. Better that than costco for sure.

http://www.merc ola.com/2002/no … /2/fish_oil.htm

I repeat myself, I am talking with Zane, so anyone else (you know who you are) can mind their own business. Do not quote me and do not reply with arguments directed at me because I have heard what you have to say already!

>”Provide me with this proof, provide me with that proof”<

Isn’t it more “You made this assertion, what is it based on?”. If it’s second hand anecdotal evidence, isn’t that akin to faith in a guy with a grey beard sitting in the clouds somewhere?

We all use anecdotal evidence. As Zane mentioned earlier, PE is based on anecdotal evidence, but then we don’t expect people to believe in PE until they’ve proved it to themselves in a darkened room*.

* PEing in a darkened room is bad for you

“Isn’t it more “You made this assertion, what is it based on?”. If it’s second hand anecdotal evidence, isn’t that akin to faith in a guy with a grey beard sitting in the clouds somewhere?”

If that was the case then yes, but most of what I have said isn’t based on second hand anecdotal evidence, so it isn’t akin to faith in God, for me, when I have seen the research. I don’t expect others to take my word for it though because that would be blind faith in their case, when I can’t provide the research that I use to have. The problem isn’t that certain individuals choose to voice their decision about preferring to take cheap fish oil instead because they have to go on what proof they have seen. The problem is that they take it further and try to discount what you have to say and after having explained your position, they continue to try to discredit you.

They say “You made this assertion, what is it based on?”.

You reply, “research that I use to have”.

They say “You made this assertion, what is it based on?”

You reply, “I told you, research I use to have”.

They say in a round about mannor “we must be right because you don’t have proof right now to offer, so we will try to discredit everything you have to say from now on because you don’t have proof anymore. Either re-do the research that took you weeks/months for us or we will try to discredit everything you say.”

This is going round and round in circles. So you go your way and I will go mine. I will only discuss things with Zane and others who think I have something to offer and you can discuss with whome ever you like but leave me out of it. If you can do this, then everyone will be happy and an argument that couldn’t resolve itself will come to an end. I hope that you will show the maturity and the responsible attitude to help make this happen.

Gottagrow,

I lose research all the time. I seem to remember Hobby stating in this thread that he couldn’t back something up, because he’d lost the links.

I also have loose beliefs built on poor anecdotal evidence, but I tend to keep them to myself or state them as a possibility rather than a fact.

I agree it can be annoying when people repeatedly ask the same question, but it can be equally annoying when someone dodges a question repeatedly (the last time it happened to me was with thethickestone). Normally the solution is to clearly state an answer, and not base subsequent posts on refuted or questionable points.

If we just end up discussing things with people who agree with us, that would be make for very poor quality conversation. Equally, when a thread gets to the stage where posts like this one appear it seems the point of the thread has been lost a touch.

The early part of this thread is very interesting, I hope it goes back to that.

“I agree it can be annoying when people repeatedly ask the same question, but it can be equally annoying when someone dodges a question repeatedly”

I didn’t dodge anything! I stated several times that I didn’t have the research anymore, that my discussions were based on. How much clearer and to the point do you want it? Dodging?? Come on now Memento, that’s not being fair.

“Normally the solution is to clearly state an answer, and not base subsequent posts on refuted or questionable points”

I wouldn’t have if they hadn’t kept questioning me about it and trying to discredit it. I would have left it at that but they kept on at myself and Zane.

“If we just end up discussing things with people who agree with us, that would be make for very poor quality conversation”

I should have explained a little better. What I meant was I am only willing to talk with Zane and others who haven’t continued to question everything I say with the same aproach over and over again after having heard my answer already.

“Equally, when a thread gets to the stage where posts like this one appear it seems the point of the thread has been lost a touch”

Precisely! That’s why I wrote this above your post…..

“This is going round and round in circles. So you go your way and I will go mine. I will only discuss things with Zane and others who think I have something to offer and you can discuss with whome ever you like but leave me out of it. If you can do this, then everyone will be happy and an argument that couldn’t resolve itself will come to an end. I hope that you will show the maturity and the responsible attitude to help make this happen.”

Gotta,

You’ve taken a general post, trying to state both sides of a problem as an attack on you, which it wasn’t.

Now let’s get back to the subject of fish oil. I would add something here if I had something to add, but I’m an ignoramous on the subject. I’m here to learn.

This is worth a read. Mentions different concentrations, contaminants, price comparison, amounts in various foods, etc.

http://ccjm.org … S/Harris304.pdf

Thanks hobby.