The TAL piece wasn't about a whackadoo cure -- but an unconventional guy who maybe had a good enough idea to get a Real Researcher(TM) involved and how they found they couldn't work together. Why anecdotal evidence isn't good enough for scientific research and more.

Yeah, that was a terrible description -- it was an idea that was "so crazy, it just might work." As a notion, it was fairly wacky, though.

Big Pharma is part of a capitalist system, for better AND for worse.

Big Pharma is part of a capitalist system, for better AND for worse.

Maybe capitalism sucks too, at least in its current form. Maybe capitalism needs to be reined in too. Both the current environmental and economic crisis are at least points in favor of that view, not necessarily proof, but evidence.

In other news, I just tried the nail polish sticker things, and....no. Maybe someone has the perfect nails and/or technique for them, but that person is not me. Ah well.

Also, hydrofluoric acid is also natural. Have a sip. I'll call the hearse. PEOPLE.

Yeah, I think to myself that belladonna is all-natural too, but taking it in its natural state doesn't cure anything unless you consider breathing to be a pesky affliction.

But it is really true that Big Pharma has a long history of testing drugs in prisons and poor nations without gaining proper consent.

Oh yeah. There's huge corruption. I don't want it to appear that I'm absolving Big Pharma from past/current sins. The bullshit they pull aids in the distrust of them, and probably results in a ton of harm from people who actually have some pretty good factual reasons to distrust Big Pharma.

And you know, there are supposed to be regulatory agencies policing the shit out of them. I think mostly it does work, which is why it can frustratingly slow to get some great new drug out on the market. But also, less likely to have babies with flippers.

Shit is complex.

There are a few people selling quack stuff I kinda end up reading just because. One of them is pretty vocal about how the cure to all that ails us is colonics.

Daily colonics and a raw food diet or at least a whole food diet. But, besides the colonics here's a whole host of stuff to spend your money on! But also he comes up with ideas that he read in a really old book somewhere so it must be true! Like - there were monks (or some old dudes living a long time ago) who went into caves and slept in caves and they regrew their hair! and Teeth! And it was in this really old book so it must be true!

Because clearly people were healthier in Olden Tymes?

Buh. I just checked my mail, and in it was another thing I bought for my sister. She really profited from my overwork and lack of satisfying ideas of what to buy her. She scored a lot, because I forgot I bought her stuff each time I bought it.

NOW. If only these files would copy to my tablet. I want to finish up watching Misfits, dammit.

Well they had all the ancient wisdom that Big Pharma stole from us. Or the scientist conspired to hideaway. Or something.

This same person believes that eating raw food and doing colonics (and other stuff) makes you "clean" down to a cellular level. As you get cleaner your start to undo all the damage you did in the past and get younger. Not physically regress, but your body goes to a younger and younger point. So anything bad that happens while you are doing colonics, raw food, and taking the magic supplements, is just your body reliving stuff from the past. It's nothing to do with what's going on now.