el donald’s belief in such stuff could help toward the goal of this thread.
One can hope.
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!
Note: Casey Means, the unqualified candidate nominated by Trump to be Surgeon General, is a promoter of “functional medicine”.
You can guess what my mind translates MTHFR into.
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
To be clear, that’s from something I quoted - not something I said.
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).
This too, and although she doesn’t own any supplement companies, she trusts them because they spout religion that matches hers.
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…”
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.
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
crackquack.
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!)
Yeah hopefully this is just plan B after Melania realized the Secret Service might object to her smothering him with a pillow
Object? They probably passed the hat and opened an account for her at Cuddledown.
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.
Even better if they gave her a MyPillow. There would be such sweet irony in that.
Ooooo…I like it.
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?
But that’s because of succussion! The harder you shake the dilution, the more it potentiates the effect!