Oh yay. Just when I was getting bored, the asshat I had a run-in earlier returns. This time she’s stumbled onto my turf.
And she’s brought her friend Gary Null with her too!
Ah yes, you are back reaffirming that you know exactly shit about autoimmune diseases. And now you’re leading someone else down your primrose path to ignorance. You also don’t know the difference between a genetic disease and a genetic predisposition. Your mastery of your native tongue continually astounds me.
Oh, and you get snippy with me because I corrected your ignorance? I know how to read carefully dear, better than you apparently. I teach English. This means that not only can I read carefully, I can do careful research and I can detect bullshit from eighteen miles away. You’re so full of it flies constantly buzz a foot from your head.
I am toying with the idea of playing with you for a while. I want to have some fun with your ignorance before I leave this community. Rest assured, dearest asshat, that if you EVER come anywhere near MY community I will summarily ban you from ever posting agayne.
SpazCat/Ryl
AH! So you are Ryl.
What did you think of the stuff about the diet? It seems sound and yet from what you said, it might not be as trustworthy as it seems…
Colitis from what I’ve heard is one of those things that can be controlled by diet. MS is not. Lupus I don’t know. I’m only qualified to correct people imperiously on the subject of autoimmunity in general and ITP specifically.
What got me started was the claim that “autoimmunity is not imperatively genetic” and her repeated genuflecting in the direction of Gary Null. I’ve looked at his website. Dude doesn’t know the difference between and autoimmune disease and aquired immune deficiency syndrome. Kind of seriously compromises any information he may dispense IMHO. Madam Gary Null acolyte seems to depend on him for all her health needs to the extent of ignoring actual reputable sources because, as we all know, they are part of the pHARMaceutaKILL industry and are only in it for the Big Buck.
Hell, I’m all in favor of herbal remedies if that can control the illness in question. I’m also in favor of going to a doctor first to check it out to make sure it is safe and not believing any medical advice found on the internet without researching it and asking a doctor about it. She seems to think that all health problems can be cured by a tincture, poultice, tea, and other “natural” remedies, blithely ignoring the fact that there are those that must be taken care of by modern medicine because there is no tincture, poultice, tea, or other “natural” remedy for it.
Bleah.
A “newager”, pronounced as to rhyme with sewage.
I use teas and whatnot for cramps, abrasions, coughs, and insomnia but I tell ya, I got no idea what use they’d be for a diseased gallbladder. No point in debating most newagers, though. You are just a dupe of <insert favoured conspiracy here>.
Never mind I’ve been studying herbal medicine for twenty-mumble years, and KNOW that there’s just no possible way under the sun that <insert newage crap here> can work. It violates far too many laws of physics and causuality to even come close to working.
The newagers I have to deal with and I have a sort of truce. They treat me with the same amused condescension I treat them, they don’t spout nonsense around me, and I don’t viciously debunk them. 