Tell Me Why!
Sep. 5th, 2006 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grizzlyzoneWhy is it that so many people are ready to believe that their doctor is in an evil cabal with the drug manufacturers and the FDA, but that any website selling "snake oil*" is the real deal?
*"Snake oil" is defined as any pill, tablet, capsule, suppliment, serum, lotion, cream, ointment, suppository, containing an exotic substance, which has not been subjected to any clinical trials and has not been evaluated by the FDA.
*"Snake oil" is defined as any pill, tablet, capsule, suppliment, serum, lotion, cream, ointment, suppository, containing an exotic substance, which has not been subjected to any clinical trials and has not been evaluated by the FDA.
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McCartney & Jackson-Say Say Say
Date: 2006-09-08 03:09 pm (UTC)However, on the website, I can do my OWN investigation the SAME as I can do on my Insurance companies web-site. AND I DO.
Re: McCartney & Jackson-Say Say Say
Date: 2006-09-08 05:40 pm (UTC)Doctors don't have wonderful visuals or promises.
They speak in generalities.
How many of us grew up with magic & magicians and believed in it. and loved it. or Santa Claus and believed in it and passed it on to the next generation.
Would you deny the magic.
The visual?
Re: McCartney & Jackson-Say Say Say
Date: 2006-09-10 12:53 am (UTC)Instead, he believes he can treat the disease himself my eating cloves of raw garlic. (Which sounds to me like getting trying to get rid of an itchy rash by rubbing ground glass into it.)
When
my sisteranother family member put the kibosh on the garlic eating, he did some more research, discovered raw honey as a cure-all, and now does the raw honey as his exilir of choice.Re: McCartney & Jackson-Say Say Say
Date: 2006-09-10 02:26 pm (UTC)More visual,
"Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.