6 reasons for not including P. D. in my blog list

:-D  Actually, this goes for a lot of blogs.

But "P. D." seems to be a cooperative promoting certain speakers for get-togethers of health semi-professionals and other interested parties.  They seem to be supplementing their conventional incomes by whoring HIRING themselves out, and as a means of teasing their potential audiences, they post short, non-informative articles, letting everyone know how brilliant they are and how we can all benefit from it, if we'll only buy their books, or their programs, or travel to outer Mongolia to attend their next speaking gig....

DAMN.

Some bloggers share their hard-earned learning or experience altruistically -- others give us generalities and promise us more if only we'll join their following ... and fork over.  Nobody in the second category makes the cut on my blog list.  Some MAY have books to sell, though by-and-large they're books worth reading.  Some may have slightly inflated egos, but the quality of their thinking authorizes a certain amount of self-esteem.  ;-)

But for those who have puffed-up concepts of their own sagacity or authoritativeness (term chosen most deliberately) ... don't we have enough self-righteous idiots in the nutritional world trying to convince us that their pet hypotheses will make their fortunes transform the suffering masses?  I have my own faults, but encouraging asininity generally isn't one of them.