As I settled into YouTube the other night, I was hit with an advertisement wanting me to go to a website to learn more about the American Parasite. I am even seeing ads now for the same thing.
Apparently it affects 250 million Americans, takes control of your body, and the commercial seems to imply corporate food types deliberately introduce this parasite into their food to get you to eat more Twinkies and avoid fruits and vegetables.
I was going to post this as a GQ, but there are several indicators to me (ads from a supplement company, infects damn near everybody, evil industrial food complex) that this is more scare than actual science.
Is the American Parasite a for real issue or just a marketing plan?
I’m glad that it knows what true patriotism is; it’s too discerning to infect lowly Canadians. They need to hire someone to spread their message better. A true entertainer. A singer. A real thrush.
So are your chances getting some candida higher in the last light of Durin’s day?
…Really? Really? OP, you really didn’t know better? :rolleyes: Come on, literally every single thing about this screams “HOAX” from the rooftops with the loudest humanly possible megaphone. And you don’t even offer a source? Time to recalibrate your bullshit filter, it’s clearly more broken than Akuma.
I’ve seen these ads around, too. It’s a “whiteboard” presentation you can see here.
I’d suggest you watch it – it should be required viewing for anyone who wants to distort information while coming across as genuinely concerned. I think it’s about 20 minutes long, it’s been a couple weeks since I watched it.
It hits every button – there’s some reference to vague toxins, a bunch of studies interpreted to mean something other than what they actually found, outright falsehoods, a few ad hominem attacks, fear mongering with “evil corporations” and the like, the usual mischaracterization of “natural” as meaning “healthy,” the “single source causing all sorts of different diseases” trick, the “single substance curing all sorts of different diseases” trick, the “if you have every had <ubiquitously common ailment here>, then you’ve probably had <ridiculously rare condition here>”, and a smattering of true facts misinterpreted for commercial gain.
It’s an amazing–nay, stunning-- work of the dishonest arts. And yes, it’s an ad for probiotics.
Uh, yeah, just a little bit. Apparently budding yeast aren’t scary enough to get you to send in your money.
Candida as the source-of-all-diseases has been around a long time, and this belief has fueled the sale of lots of books and remedies. Let’s say you feel depressed on occasion, can’t lose weight and don’t feel energetic enough. It’s got to be some parasite or mystery disease! Like Morgellons, or Candida or liver flukes, or, well, something that can be banished by the right supplement or diet or zapper or Rife machine treatment or whatever.
I swear I should quit my job and go into selling profitable woo. I’m told I am quite proficient in convincing bullshit-pitching, and after following this stuff for years, I could write the ad copy in my sleep.
Of course the BS meter was going off, all the way to 11. But just because I want to call BS on it doesn’t mean that other folks don’t believe. Plenty of examples where what, to me, looked like iffy science became full scale scares because they worked on an emotional level.
And this came across as an emotional appeal rather than a factual one. Perfect for 20/20.
Despite my curiosity, I really didn’t want to encourage the makers of this ad by clicking on their website. That would tell them the ad worked, which means I would see even more of them.
I knew an intrepid Doper would have already scoped out what was going on and fill me in. Much appreciated.
(pretend that tongue is yellow).