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Dave W.
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Posted - 12/22/2003 :  19:57:48  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
But how can mainstream medicine compete against Ah-nold?

Apparently, this has been going on for some time (I just found out). Makes his previous chairmanship of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports a little bit scary.

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Caligula
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Posted - 01/14/2004 :  15:15:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Caligula an AOL message Send Caligula a Private Message
Hello, Just wondering if scientologists could really be aliens ? (serious) I was told that once.

can anyone help ?

Warning: Some replies could get me mad but I'm sexier when I'm mad.
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 01/14/2004 :  16:02:17   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Caligula

Hello, Just wondering if scientologists could really be aliens ? (serious) I was told that once.

can anyone help ?

According to $cientologists, we are all parts of eternal, insubstantial aliens who came here before Earth was populated. Bu humans, that is...

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Dave W.
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Posted - 01/14/2004 :  17:00:46   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Caligula, as far as I can tell, most scientologists are simply human beings who've been duped by other human beings into believing foolish things. The remainder are human beings who've fooled themselves. Absolutely nothing other-worldly about any of them.

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Dave W.
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Posted - 01/28/2004 :  16:18:00   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Oddly, the new Governor wants to cut chiropractic coverage from California's version of Medicaid.

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Dave W.
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Posted - 03/10/2004 :  12:00:19   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
And now, he wants to do away with FDA oversight of supplements:
quote:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California where a nutritional firm is the focus of a global steroid scandal, opposes government regulation of dietary supplements, his office said on Monday.

...

Schwarzenegger, who has admitted to using steroids as a bodybuilding champion, told his Arnold Fitness Weekend in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday that such oversight was unnecessary.

"I have always campaigned against the FDA getting involved in food supplements," he said in quotes confirmed by his office on Monday. "I have very rarely seen the government do anything that was effective."
One wonders why he got involved in the government, then.

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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 03/12/2004 :  02:47:44   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.

And now, he wants to do away with FDA oversight of supplements:
quote:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California where a nutritional firm is the focus of a global steroid scandal, opposes government regulation of dietary supplements, his office said on Monday.

...

Schwarzenegger, who has admitted to using steroids as a bodybuilding champion, told his Arnold Fitness Weekend in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday that such oversight was unnecessary.

"I have always campaigned against the FDA getting involved in food supplements," he said in quotes confirmed by his office on Monday. "I have very rarely seen the government do anything that was effective."
One wonders why he got involved in the government, then.

What does the the letters F, D, and A stand for?

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Dave W.
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Posted - 03/12/2004 :  08:21:51   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Food and Drug Administration.

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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 03/13/2004 :  20:01:11   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.

Food and Drug Administration.

An Administration that is made to control food and drugs...
I would suggest that food supplements qualify as both, so I don't understand his grief:
"I have always campaigned against the FDA getting involved in food supplements,"

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Renae
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Posted - 03/13/2004 :  21:12:53   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Renae a Private Message
Dr. M, I'm guessing that Arnold is against FDA regulation of supplements because it might cost the supplement makers money. If supplement manufacturers had to prove their products were safe, pure, and actually worked (gasp), they would cost more to manufacture.

Pharmaceutical companies, however, ARE under the purview of the FDA. By some miracle, the Republicans haven't de-funded and demoralized the FDA into impotency as they have other government agencies, such as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Not yet, anyway.

Like most Republicans, Arnold is probably against anything that might possibly cut into corporate profits.

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