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Odd Web Myths About Me Debunked Introduction
The
Internet is a very useful place at times, but it is also a strange
place, for it offers a readily-available publishing platform for many
voices, including many psychotic and deranged voices, and some of the
webpages containing the rants and claims of authors falling in the
latter categories of authorship contain some amazingly funny, strange
and bizarre statements, almost all of them entirely untrue. This page
will discuss a few of those claims. Here
is a debunking
of some web-proliferated myths (if you ever really believed
them in the first place!):
The
web is a strange place,
and if you browse it even casually, you can find websites claiming all
kinds
of things which are simply not true, at least not in my
world! For
better or worse, I am fairly well-known on the web, largely via my
websites,
list groups, lectures, books and related activities, and a quick search
at Google search
engine using my name yields hundreds of websites mentioning my
name.
However, since late 2003, I have been noticing some really odd and
ridiculous mythology and distortion
creeping in, along with the more realistic citations. Listed below are
some just some examples of some of the more bizarre and untrue
assertions that I have discovered online about myself, along with my
own
version
of events/facts/issues. When
I learn of the
existence of webpages making such spurious claims, I contact the
operators (to the best of my ability) and ask them to cease and desist.
Here, then, is a brief list of some of the more common myths and
misstatements
I have seen: "Vinny
Pinto
is a medical doctor and famous scientist and he recommends our
product..."
I have been advised by Australian Consumer Affairs and Consumer Fraud
authorities
that two vendor websites (I have only been able to locate one of the
sites;
they were asked to cease and desist) in Australia which sell various
types
of home water ionizers have not only cited my website which discusses
the
benefits of drinking ionized water (so far, this is harmless....!), but
they have gone a "bit" farther and claimed that I am a medical doctor
and/
or a famous scientist, and that I recommend or endorse their particular
product. None of these things are true: I am not a medical doctor. I am
not a famous scientist; I simply have a Master's degree in a broad
scientific
field embracing health, wellness, and longevity, and am a researcher. I
am famous only in the eyes of my chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys
when I walk into their pen each
morning to feed them. I have not endorsed any water ionizer
products,
particularly not for any vendor websites in Australia!
"Dr.
Vinny Pinto is a scientist with his PhD in health..." I
have several times found websites -- all of them sites which were
quoting my words and which were trying very hard to sell products of
some sort -- which have claimed, when quoting from one of my articles,
books or websites, that I have a doctoral degree (i.e., a PhD) in
my field, and these sites have sometimes placed the title "Doctor" or
"Dr." prefix in front of my name. This is not true. I do not have a
doctoral
degree in any field, and rather, I have a deep and broad Master's
degree in health-related sciences and research methods thereof, awarded
in 1992 by Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) in Western
Pennsylvania, USA. I have also done additional graduate studies in the
fields of clinical psychology, exercise and aging, and I also have one
year-plus of graduate-level training in acupuncture. However, I possess
no doctoral degrees in any fields from any accredited institutions of
higher learning. "Vinny
Pinto is a member of our
distinguished research and teaching faculty..." Currently,
two websites
operated by "health clinics" in the realms of chronic disease and
longevity,
both of which are run by medical doctors, have taken it upon themselves
to create a "Faculty" page, and
better yet, to list my name
and some of my credentials or experience (often hopelessly inaccurate)
on
their Faculty pages.
In reality, although I have
had brief telephone conversations
(they contacted me, not vice versa) and brief (very brief) e-mail
correspondence with one or two of these medical
doctors/researchers, I have never been officially
asked
to be on the "faculty" of their institutions or medical clinics, nor
have I ever agreed to such a "posting".
Period!
Further, I receive no income nor remuneration from these folks and
organizations,
nor have I ever received such from them. I have never taught any
courses
nor designed any curricula for these organizations. Period! When I can,
I ask the operators of sites making such claims to cease and
desist from their activities, but I do not have the time or energy to
constantly track the latest permutations of these claims and similar
claims. "Vinny
Pinto is a mystic
and has lived for over seven years on sunlight alone, never eating food
or drinking water". Well, all I can say to this
one is: BIZARRE!
No truth at all to this one! I love food! I do try
to eat a
largely-raw and largely-Paleolithic diet, but this has nothing to do
with
not eating food! In this case, I do believe that the author
of the
website in question has mistakenly attributed to me some of the
feats/achievements
of Hira Ratan Manak, a retired engineer from India turned sungazer and
sungazing advocate, who has indeed claimed (largely falsely) to have
eaten almost no solid food for over
seven
years, and it is also true that at one time Hira Manek was
intensively studied and closely-monitored for 411 days by medical
professionals, and their study apparently verified that he did
not eat any solid food during that 411 day period. However,
he has
since returned to eating food at times, despite his claims to the
contrary. It is true that I
have met Hira, and that I run an e-mail list group on
the topic sungazing,
but that is as far as it goes. When
I can, I ask the operators of sites making such
claims to cease and desist from their activities, but I do not have the
time or energy to constantly track the latest permutations of these
claims and similar claims. "If you
purchase one of
our water ionizers or subscribe to our newsletter, we will send you a
free
article by scientist Vinny Pinto on raw juicing."
It is true
that several websites marketing juicers (for fruits and vegetables) and
water ionizers were claiming this and/or do claim this. Each of the
websites
and vendors involved were distributing a copyrighted article -- written
by me and lifted from one of my free informational websites -- without
my permission and thus were stealing intellectual property without
paying
me royalties for my work. "Our
product/service has been endorsed by Vinny Pinto, a well-known
researcher and scientist in this field..." With
only very few exceptions, I do not endorse products or services offered
by vendors. I will only endorse products or services in those cases
where I have researched the product or service carefully and feel that
it is useful and helpful and offered by sincere persons of high
integrity, and such a product or service must really impress me as
well. On the other hand, a lack of my endorsement does not imply that a
product or service being offered is lacking any of the above-listed
qualities, and rather, may simply mean that I have not examined or
reviewed the product or service in question or do not have strong
feelings about it. "Vinny
Pinto is an eccentric
and a lunatic, and he is silly-looking!" Aha!
Finally!
The truth! This is totally true! I do not deny it!
(smile!)
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