# Trump is dying **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 27, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520 "2025-08-27T07:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 108
**Author:** ![Ancient\_Nerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2142 "2026-04-09T18:37:18Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Quackery. Pure unadulterated horseshit. el donald’s belief in such stuff could help toward the goal of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2143 "2026-04-09T18:51:27Z")
One can hope. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2144 "2026-04-09T19:17:24Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > what the hell is “functional medicine?” Basically, it’s ordering lots of unnecessary tests and prescribing a boatload of supplements. Bonus points if you run a company selling the supplements. [It’s holi$tic!](https://drhyman.com/pages/shop) > **[Cleveland Clinic genetic experts call out functional medicine on worthless...](https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cleveland-clinic-genetic-experts-call-out-functional-medicine-on-worthless-genetic-testing-and-supplement-prescribing/)** > > Cleveland Clinic genetics experts call out functional medicine on worthless genetic testing and dietary supplement prescribing: "Poor science, leading to even worse medicine." Irony meters exploded ev > **[What is Functional Medicine?](https://thescamdoctor.substack.com/p/what-is-functional-medicine)** > > Simply a rebranding. A title with no accountability. A scarily short "education." Note: Casey Means, the unqualified candidate nominated by Trump to be Surgeon General, is a promoter of “functional medicine”. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2145 "2026-04-09T19:25:50Z")
You can guess what my mind translates MTHFR into. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2146 "2026-04-09T19:26:58Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sAHiAuiT_zM/hqdefault.jpg "Old Ladies Play Scrabble in Foul Play (1978)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAHiAuiT_zM) ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2147 "2026-04-09T19:36:11Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Opinions on functional medicine are deeply divided. They are deeply divided between people who actually want to treat illnesses and would rather their patients don’t die,and immoral hucksters who don’t care if people are killed by their snake oil ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2148 "2026-04-09T19:38:37Z")
To be clear, that’s from something I quoted - not something I said. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2149 "2026-04-09T19:48:51Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > > [@DesertDog](#): > > > > what the hell is “functional medicine?” > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > Quackery. Pure distilled quackery. > > > [@](#): > > > > Opinions on functional medicine are deeply divided. Proponents view it as a patient-centered, root-cause approach to chronic illness using nutrition and lifestyle, while critics argue it often lacks scientific evidence, relies on unproven tests, and acts as a pseudoscience marketing term. It is not considered mainstream, and results vary. > > Quackery. Pure unadulterated horseshit.. Ah, now I understand what my sister has been trying to push at me in order to deal with my arthritis (and getting offended when I didn’t hop on board based on her research). > [@Jackmannii](#): > > Basically, it’s (snip) prescribing a boatload of supplements. Bonus points if you run a company selling the supplements. This too, and although she doesn’t own any supplement companies, she trusts them because they spout religion that matches hers. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2150 "2026-04-09T20:05:38Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > now I understand what my sister has been trying to push at me in order to deal with my arthritis (and getting offended when I didn’t hop on board It’s always the quack stuff that it’s proponents push sooo hard. This woman at my work is always trying to get me to take some woo salve (for my back pain). She mentions that it helps her mom and her friends, blah blah blah. I finally got tired of hearing about it so asked her what it did for her. She said, “Oh, I’ve never tried but I know it works, it’s made of blah, blah, blah…” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2151 "2026-04-09T20:24:57Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Pure distilled quackery. Well, _that’s_ their problem. They should be diluting their quackery! Dilute it until the quackery is nigh undetectable. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2152 "2026-04-09T20:52:20Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > Pure distilled quackery. > > Well, _that’s_ their problem. They should be diluting their quackery! Dilute it until the quackery is nigh undetectable.   Yep, diluting quackery only makes it more potent, hence homeopathy. Never take it straight. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2153 "2026-04-09T21:48:11Z")
I suppose that answers the age old conundrum about duck’s quacks echoing. If you can hear the echo, you didn’t dilute the quack enough. Just keep diluting the quack until the echo is inaudibile. 🤪 🦆 Like that lame ad campaign once had it: > Just say “no” to ~~crack~~ quack. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2154 "2026-04-09T22:30:52Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > I’m pinning more hope on whatever is causing that discoloration on Trump’s hand stopping this war than all the checks and balances in the US system of government unfortunately ☹ There’s also ‘_rage at your living-separately wife who today held a press conference to bring Epstein back to the headlines, after all your hard work of attacking another nation and threatening its annihilation_’ as a factor. (Thanks, Melanie!) ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2155 "2026-04-09T22:36:15Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > rage at your living-separately wife who today held a press conference to bring Epstein back to the headlines Yeah hopefully this is just plan B after Melania realized the Secret Service might object to her smothering him with a pillow ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2156 "2026-04-09T23:09:14Z")
Object? They probably passed the hat and opened an account for her at Cuddledown. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2157 "2026-04-09T23:10:29Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Well, _that’s_ their problem. They should be diluting their quackery! Dilute it until the quackery is nigh undetectable. I used to date a woman who believed in that stuff. She was buying a tiny bottle of oscillococcinum for $60 a pop. It said right on the label (paraphrasing), ‘homeopathic remedy used to treat flu-like symptoms’ ‘made from wild duck heart and liver extract’ ‘diluted to [real numbers] 200CK’. That’s 1:100 dilution performed 200 times. Meaning virtually no original molecules remain. She actually believed that the more diluted it was, the more powerful it was. She also told me she only used shampoo with grapefruit juice in because reasons. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2158 "2026-04-09T23:46:03Z")
Even better if they gave her a MyPillow. There would be such sweet irony in that. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2159 "2026-04-09T23:58:25Z")
Ooooo…I like it. 😎 ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2160 "2026-04-10T00:52:46Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Testicles of adult goats, not of kids! Actually, it’s probably easier to get kid goat testicles than billy goat testicles. Most of the males are castrated at a few weeks old. And wouldn’t you rather have an injection of the young juicy ones anyway?😁 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2161 "2026-04-10T00:56:35Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > That’s 1:100 dilution performed 200 times. Meaning virtually no original molecules remain. She actually believed that the more diluted it was, the more powerful it was. But that’s because of succussion! The harder you shake the dilution, the more it potentiates the effect! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=107) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=109)