Posted by Lou Pilder on November 30, 2006, at 20:53:38
In reply to Re: Lou's response to aspects of scott's post-, posted by notfred on November 30, 2006, at 20:17:43
Friends,
It is written here,[...(Dr. Hsiung) does not give medical opinions..here...]. This is in response to,[...There could be IMO members that think the forum is for them to get medical advice because the owner is a doctor...].
Let us suppose that a lawyer hosted a forum and had the members take a test that had a question indicating that the forum was not to get legal advice. Yet the forum discussed legal issues and the owner/lawyer commented on these issues and allowed legal issues to go unsanctioned that he thought was correct, and sanctioned those posters that posted false conclusions as being a jump to a conclusion. And also , the lawyer had a rule that members could not post what is a jumping to a false conclusion, or anything that was an exaggeration or overgeneralization, and the lawyer made those determinations. I believe that there is the potential IMO on that hypothetical forum for some of the members, even though there was a disclaimer to the contrary, to {trust} the owner's statements where a member jumped to a conclusion or exaggerated and such because the owner is an expert and IMO the lawyer would want to do what is best for the members by pointing out that there was a jump to a false conclusion so that incorrect legal advice was not thought to be correct.
But there is much more to this....
Lou
poster:Lou Pilder
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