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I'm up past my bedtime answering a post in the poly LJ community. The show I was watching has ended and an infomercial just came on.
I'm livid.
"You can cure breast cancer without chemotherapy by eating a muffin with flax seed oil"
"In here, there is a cure for depression"
"There is a cure for ADD"
"Magnets cure joint pain in less than a minute and permanently"
And he's comparing his book of miracles to a person claiming that oranges cure scurvy and then going to jail for making that claim because the orange isn't a drug. Except, of course, that scurvy is a vitamin C deficiency, so DUH the "cure" is to eat oranges. Cancer is a lot more complicated than a vitamin depletion that is cured by increasing that vitamin.
Oh, and the drug companies are all in on the conspiracy for blocking natural cures because they're in it for the money of drugs.
AAARRRGGGHHHHH.
Y'know, two people can keep a secret if one of the people is dead.
"The doctor really wants to cure his patients. But when he goes to school, he is only trained by certain methods and doesn't know anything else".
WHAT THE FUCK!!!
Do people honestly believe that a pill that cures cancer is 1) prevented by the FDA from being released into the US because of the drug company conspiracy and 2) is somehow completely unknown by ANYONE in the medical or research community and 3) if it really is a consipiracy that his infomercial would be allowed to happen or that he wouldn't somehow disappear in a mysterious incident immediately after airing?
Are people really this stupid??!!?
Oh, wait, yes they are.
I'm just so angry at this infomercial, at this ASSHOLE who is recommending a fucking muffin with flax seed oil INSTEAD of chemotherapy and talking about how the First Amendment protects his right to make these outrageous claims even though the government and the drug companies are out to arrest him for making medical claims with no scientific backing, that I can't even formulate a calm, rational post debunking each of his points one by one.
He's upset that the drug companies are trying to make money off patients. But he's selling his book with his miracle cures.
Please, please, please, where's a cop when you need one?
I'm livid.
"You can cure breast cancer without chemotherapy by eating a muffin with flax seed oil"
"In here, there is a cure for depression"
"There is a cure for ADD"
"Magnets cure joint pain in less than a minute and permanently"
And he's comparing his book of miracles to a person claiming that oranges cure scurvy and then going to jail for making that claim because the orange isn't a drug. Except, of course, that scurvy is a vitamin C deficiency, so DUH the "cure" is to eat oranges. Cancer is a lot more complicated than a vitamin depletion that is cured by increasing that vitamin.
Oh, and the drug companies are all in on the conspiracy for blocking natural cures because they're in it for the money of drugs.
AAARRRGGGHHHHH.
Y'know, two people can keep a secret if one of the people is dead.
"The doctor really wants to cure his patients. But when he goes to school, he is only trained by certain methods and doesn't know anything else".
WHAT THE FUCK!!!
Do people honestly believe that a pill that cures cancer is 1) prevented by the FDA from being released into the US because of the drug company conspiracy and 2) is somehow completely unknown by ANYONE in the medical or research community and 3) if it really is a consipiracy that his infomercial would be allowed to happen or that he wouldn't somehow disappear in a mysterious incident immediately after airing?
Are people really this stupid??!!?
Oh, wait, yes they are.
I'm just so angry at this infomercial, at this ASSHOLE who is recommending a fucking muffin with flax seed oil INSTEAD of chemotherapy and talking about how the First Amendment protects his right to make these outrageous claims even though the government and the drug companies are out to arrest him for making medical claims with no scientific backing, that I can't even formulate a calm, rational post debunking each of his points one by one.
He's upset that the drug companies are trying to make money off patients. But he's selling his book with his miracle cures.
Please, please, please, where's a cop when you need one?
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Date: 12/24/07 11:17 pm (UTC)From: