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Gorgo
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Lisa
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 Posted - 06/11/2001 : 15:45:53 [Permalink]
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Quackwatch is one of the best and most informative sites out there. I really tried to get a co-worker interested in it, but to no avail. She was one of the types who'd whip out her checkbook whenever she saw one of those ads "Lose 20lbs in two weeks with our raspberry aloe duck feather oil!" Or whatever. I e-mailed her a few of the articles and she started thinking a little more critically. I explained the difference between a testimonial and evidence based on double blind studies. She decided to eat less and exercise more. She eventually lost 20lbs, and probably saved close to $300.
When my local paper advertises for the latest "Health Fair", don't you think they should add a disclaimer, and post the link for this site? (BTW, these Health Fairs have nothing to do with medicine. They're a bunch of new age, ear candling, aura reading, homeopathic nut cases)
Lisa
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 06/11/2001 : 16:02:18 [Permalink]
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Do you know where I can get that Duck Feather Oil? (:
I subscribed to the Healthfraud mailing list (see the Quackwatch site for details) for a while, but they had some problems, and I'm having trouble getting back on.
I have some friends that are very anti-quackwatch/Barrett, anti-James Randi, etc. If it's mainstream medicine, then it must exist only to make the pharmaceuticals rich.
There are some mailing lists that are anti-reality too, like the Hulda Clark lists. Check out
http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/drclark
for one of them. I was kicked off for unknown reasons. I think it was because I was a Healthfraud member, and a member of a couple of anti-Dr. Clark lists.
There's lots of money to be made in quackery. Sometimes I'd like to take advantage of some of it, but I suppose that isn't the wisest course of action.
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Quackwatch is one of the best and most informative sites out there. I really tried to get a co-worker interested in it, but to no avail. She was one of the types who'd whip out her checkbook whenever she saw one of those ads "Lose 20lbs in two weeks with our raspberry aloe duck feather oil!" Or whatever. I e-mailed her a few of the articles and she started thinking a little more critically. I explained the difference between a testimonial and evidence based on double blind studies. She decided to eat less and exercise more. She eventually lost 20lbs, and probably saved close to $300.
When my local paper advertises for the latest "Health Fair", don't you think they should add a disclaimer, and post the link for this site? (BTW, these Health Fairs have nothing to do with medicine. They're a bunch of new age, ear candling, aura reading, homeopathic nut cases)
Lisa
Chaos...Confusion...Destruction...My Work Here Is Done
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Lisa
SFN Regular
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Posted - 06/11/2001 : 16:12:26 [Permalink]
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Wow, I suddenly thought my house was surrounded by ducks, but I had only clicked on that site. 
The people who sell this garbage make me mad. They're making money off of other people's misery and ignorance. Yet they have powerful lobbies that make sure alternative medicine gets funded. Our tax dollars at work.
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 06/11/2001 : 16:27:57 [Permalink]
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The story of homeopathy is a good one. We had a senator that was a homeopathic "physician" that basically made homeopathy legal.
Don't we have enough Marijuana users in Congress to make drugs legal?
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Wow, I suddenly thought my house was surrounded by ducks, but I had only clicked on that site.
The people who sell this garbage make me mad. They're making money off of other people's misery and ignorance. Yet they have powerful lobbies that make sure alternative medicine gets funded. Our tax dollars at work.
Lisa
Chaos...Confusion...Destruction...My Work Here Is Done
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Lisa
SFN Regular
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Posted - 06/12/2001 : 18:35:32 [Permalink]
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The story of homeopathy is a good one. We had a senator that was a homeopathic "physician" that basically made homeopathy legal.
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Shrub got rid of or cut back on so many programmes that were actually doing some good! Examples: RIF and Headstart. And good "hand up" progammes have been severely cut, ie WIC. I have friends who make use of the WIC programme. Yes folks, sad but true, many military members do indeed qualify, and I'm not talking just about the E-1's.
Yet the government is funding an Instiute for Alternative Medicine! Quacks should be given procecution, not handouts!
Okay, rant over.
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
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Posted - 06/17/2001 : 22:20:37 [Permalink]
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Homeopathy in my state is legal. I have friends who are impossible to talk out of scams like that. I gave up a long time ago. Perhaps it is the male chauvinism in some of them that keeps them from taking advice from a woman. One of them is 82 and in great health, so it is difficult to argue with him. He also believes in baloney astronomy and baloney cosmology, and discussion with him can get pretty tense at times.
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 06/18/2001 : 03:07:13 [Permalink]
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Women don't like to be told (by men) that homeopathy is hogwash, either. They say that it works, and I'm wrong because I can't be telling them what they feel. Sometimes what they call homeopathy probably does work, because they're putting real medicines in them sometimes, because if you call it homeopathy, no regulatory agency looks to see what's in it.
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