Re: Blatant CDC lie (pharma shill)

From: paghat (paghatSPAM-ME-NOT_at_netscape.net)
Date: 10/19/04 

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:00:43 -0700

In article <Xns958714537B382ebohlmanomsdevcom@130.133.1.4>, Eric Bohlman
<ebohlman@omsdev.com> wrote:

> "Byron Canfield" <barnNOSPAM@NOSPAMbyronc.com> wrote in
> news:3A%cd.151162$He1.31864@attbi_s01:
>
> > The AMA is now lobbying with others to make over-the-counter vitamin
> > supplements illegal. If that isn't suppression, the word "suppression"
> > doesn't exist.
>
> I first remember hearing that claim 32 years ago, and before then I was too
> young to pay much attention to such things. Even if the allegation is
> true, what makes you think the AMA would have any chance of succeeding now
> if they've failed to do it in more than three decades' worth of effort?

It is symptomatic of the all-too-often nutty alternative medicine
community to believe that real doctors don't want any of us ever to be
healthy, but that otherwise unemployable check-out tellers at the Health
Food Store are a great source of medical advice. And that an authentic
medical degree qualifies practioners for nothing but membership in a cabal
of evil-doers who want to perpetuate cancer, but complete fruitcakes who
can't even get their folklore right know all the secrets of the good
health, possess magic cancer cures the "real" doctors are suppressing, &
of coruse the pseudo-therapists would never never ever rip anyone off by
recommending sawdust & crumbled leaves for what ails ya the way real
doctors rip us for prescription meds (& never mind that the doctors don't
profit off prescribing meds, but alternative practioners sell you as much
as you're dumb enough to want & feel no conflict of interest).

Once you've gone down the road where anyone with a degree in medicine is
up to something sinister but smell therapists & homeopaths are the real
deal who could cure people of everything, then it becomes very easy to
believe there is a medical conspiracy to get rid of even vitamins.

Pisses me off too that a bunch of loons taking ephedra for the
"alternative" benzedrine effects, as addicted as any other tweeking
speedfreak, getting it banned because those dolts were killing themselves
with Safe Natural Drugs. Now I have a harder time getting it to use as a
mild tea for rare bounts of conjestion. The problem with the rare
alternative remedy that really works is it will also have side-effects, &
it should be regulated given the public's willingness to misuse dangerous
drugs pretending "natural" means "safe." There is no such thing as an
herbal drug that is simultaneously potently efficatious & totally safe --
but the more worthless the remedy the fewer its side-effects. So take your
Taheebo which is literally sawdust from a lumber mill, that's safe & legal
& medicinally worthless, but ban ma-huang/ephedra which actually works.
And it wasn't banned because doctors don't want us to be healthy, it was
banned because stupid people misused when greedy vendors encouraged them
to use it for things it should never have been used for.

There's a lot of wacky stuff goes on in a hospital too, but nothing
compared to what herb promoters are about; their scam relies on 90% fraud
& 10% confusion, so that even the few things that are actually medicinally
valid get recommended for the wrong things & no one watchdogging those
cretins to keep them from lying their asses off while endangering public
health.

-paghat the ratgirl 

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