01-11-2009, 05:46 PM
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Shit Medicine
Something close to my heart is shit medicine- alternative and complementary medicine as people like to call it
here is an example of a shit medicine practitioner suing a skeptic should be an interesting case
more about this later- and maybe on my pet topic of shit medicine - Homeopathy! - AKA water
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01-11-2009, 05:58 PM
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Shit medicine is sloppy research and doctors who make mistakes. Homeopathy doesn't even qualify as shit medicine, it's just retarded gibberish whose only redeeming feature is that by comparison it makes a lot of other ricockulous nonsense seem slightly less insane (e.g., healing crystals).
You can always turn tricks for a few extra bucks. If looks are an issue, there's the glory hole option, but don't expect more than ... tips.
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01-11-2009, 05:58 PM
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For example this - the rise in cases of measles in England and Wales which can be attributed to the idiocy over the MMR vaccine promoted way out of proportion by the media.
Measles is a disease that kills - MMR has never been proven to be connected to autism - yet idiot parents will not protect their children from a fatal disease just because some sham tells them that some bad research may have connected it to incidences of autism- forgetting the clearer diagnosis of autism and increasing ability to recognise it in primary heaklthcare!
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01-11-2009, 05:59 PM
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"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
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01-11-2009, 06:00 PM
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Quote:
Choobus wrote
Shit medicine is sloppy research and doctors who make mistakes. Homeopathy doesn't even qualify as shit medicine, it's just retarded gibberish whose only redeeming feature is that by comparison it makes a lot of other ricockulous nonsense seem slightly less insane (e.g., healing crystals).
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true that - it doesn't even aspire to reach to be shit medicine but I still have to rant about it somewhere
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01-11-2009, 06:03 PM
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Shit Medicine
"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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01-11-2009, 06:04 PM
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"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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01-11-2009, 06:04 PM
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"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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01-11-2009, 06:30 PM
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If you sell something, you should be held accountable for your claims - absolutely - but I'm glad there's an alternative medicine industry.
We pay monopolistic prices for our healthcare here in the US in large part because that sector is bereft of market forces. I welcome what little competition they get.
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01-11-2009, 07:02 PM
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"There is no such thing as Alternative Medicine. There are practices that work and those which don't. The first is called Medicine."
"Those who most loudly proclaim their honesty are least likely to possess it."
"Atheism: rejecting all absurdity." S.H.
"Reality, the God alternative"
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01-11-2009, 07:09 PM
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Quote:
Sternwallow wrote
"There is no such thing as Alternative Medicine. There are practices that work and those which don't. The first is called Medicine."
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I agree, "alternative" medicine should be called what it is: alternative to medicine.
You can always turn tricks for a few extra bucks. If looks are an issue, there's the glory hole option, but don't expect more than ... tips.
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01-11-2009, 07:16 PM
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My econ professor, on lecture about monopolies (in which he used the AMA as an example) said "If economists were smart they would certify the practice of economics and then make up a dirty word for people that were interested in money but lacked the certification - like, say, quack.
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01-11-2009, 07:30 PM
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Alternative Medicine, another triumph of hope over reality.
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01-11-2009, 08:20 PM
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While waiting for a takeout sandwich, I picked up a copy of the free publication, "Natural Awakenings". There was more snake oil in that magazine than a whole truckload of Saudi Arabian Cobras.
"Science and Mother Nature are in a marriage where Science is always surprised to come home and find Mother Nature blowing the neighbor." - Justin's Dad
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01-11-2009, 08:25 PM
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Oh, they have a magazine
Which posts shit like Wise Words with Gregg Braden
Where he says things like, "Interestingly, additional studies now show that the energy of heart-based emotion affects everything from the atoms of our world to the healing of our bodies, including the very fields of the Earth that are affected by the cycles."
And, "The atom, for example, can be thought of as a fractal of our solar system; the same pattern only on a larger scale."
Oh yeah, he's supposed to be a "visionary scientist". His website is here.
The best part, is that he looks the part:
"Science and Mother Nature are in a marriage where Science is always surprised to come home and find Mother Nature blowing the neighbor." - Justin's Dad
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