An Assassination Attempt On Trump Only Hit An Ear (But Damaged Edzard Ernst)

How 'Project 2025' could change Medicare would be an interesting topic for discussion, if Project 2025 was Trump's program, and not 'Agenda 47.' As it stands, how Project 2025 is being used to warp minds - by the Democrats - is an even more powerful and fascinating subject to talk about. 

I tried having an online conversation with Professor Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, MAE, FMedSci, FRSB, FRCP, FRCPEd (above, a german living in France) about what he mis-labeled 'Project 2025: Donald Trump’s blueprint for a fascist America,' but, as you can see in the comments, I didn't go well - with, either, him or the other commenters: The power of Democrat party propaganda was just too strong.  

Even knowing Project 2025 is the product of the Heritage Foundation, and Trump already rejected it as 'ridiculous' - and that "the Democratic National Committee is rolling out a media blitz connecting him to it" - they refused to believe, or were unable to grasp, that the Democrats were toying with them, Trump had his own program, and fascism was most definitely not coming to America. 

   

I thought about Professor Ernst again, today, and the level of hysteria Democrat party propaganda whips up, world-wide, as I listened to Glenn Greenwald (a gay Jewish man, living in Brazil, but one of America's best investigative reporters) casually describing the perils of a new Trump administration, with no alarm in his voice or manner whatsoever - and not one word about Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation, or fascism - while a full-on professor, with all those credentials behind his name, loses his fucking mind in FrogLand. That's scary.

To be fair, since our ugly interaction, Ernst has also written a post on JD Vance, who, I'm pretty sure, he misinterprets, just as badly as he does Trump and Project 2025 - because (in what, I think, should be completely out of character for a scientist) he relies on kooky-ass MSNBC to 'inform' him. 

I didn't bother to read the new post. Based on our interaction, I think, since the attempted murder of Trump, Ernest may be showing the same signs of mental slippage as Joe Biden now. At 76, the "outspoken professor of complementary medicine" has grown cranky and unable to be reasoned with, nor does he even bother to reason: He just calls people names, and throws out casual insults as a defense. Think Donald Trump, but without even half the wit or charm.

   

 BTW - If anyone wants to talk seriously about the very-real dark threats coming America's way, "in this extended, wide-ranging interview, Jimmy Dore and Unlimited Hangout contributing editor and One Nation Under Blackmail author Whitney Webb discuss whether Trump’s VP pick JD Vance is a puppet of billionaire Peter Thiel, the real reason Elon Musk purchased Twitter, how the dystopian future of policing in the film Minority Report is becoming a reality,..." Check it out. They're not ready for hospice yet.

 

How Could I Be Such A Fool?

2019: "Wellness jumps to a $4.5 trillion global market."

2023: "Wellness Market Reaches Record $5.6 Trillion."

Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, MAE, FMedSci, FRSB, FRCP, FRCPEd: 

"Wellness is a fashionable paradise for charlatans in which they are protected from scientific scrutiny and feel at liberty to bullshit to their hearts’ content."

News Flash: "Deepak Chopra is getting into the $814 billion wellness tourism business." 

 

 And, of course, Lil Wayne's real name is "Clarence."

 

Whites Kill But I'm The Bad Guy

There are unintended consequences to ear candling and Oprah 

The good doctor, Edzard Ernst, discovered why I've blogged about the deaths caused by alternative medicine, why I have a bad reputation for doing so (while a quack, like Dr. Oz, has a good one) and why quack sales are so high to begin with:

"Online reviews overestimate the benefits of medical treatments, probably because people with negative outcomes are less inclined to tell others about their experiences. This bias can enable ineffective medical treatments to maintain a good reputation." 

And black men, who have hurt no one, being persecuted by colorblind racists to the ends of the Earth,...

 

More Rye Observations (From The Blog With No Bread)

Rock, rock, the planet - ROCK - Get It? No? Really? 

This morning, the first private email in TMR's box was a joy, and it contained a warning for others - listen to TMR:

"For what it's worth: I really appreciate your commentary. I also remember your history. 

Back in the Day (around 08 or so), you gave two very good pieces of advice, one of which I followed, the other of which I didn't (to my detriment):

1.) Watch out for urban kebab places: I did that. What you said about how dirty they could be was totally correct. I found decent family restaurants, which were couscouses that served kebabs; never a standup kebab place. 

2.) Beware of New Age. Now, back in the US, I'm dealing with medical issues due to "homeopathic" quack treatment that I took in France, because I was in pain, and it was August. (Oy.) 

I wish the best to you. Wish I could support you better.”

TMR is now an Afro-desiac to whites on race

Not much to add to that (TMR wrote back privately) except - to understand quackery AND to build up the proper level of skepticism - readers should check out: 

He's white, and English, with a German name - Maybe Crack's right!

Dr. Edzard Ernst. For instance, his topic today is "Another dodgy study of homeopathy," which is how the English talk - the shit's "dodgy" - which makes it sound kind of cool. But it's not. 

Life is filled with things that "sound kind of cool" but it's not.

Remember "The Artful Dodger"? (Not remember, remember, but remember?) It's like that. But bad art. Really, really badd. 



If a man owns a pocket comb he's probably a Republican - Good to know!

 Another great resource is Penn Jillette's (?) "What's The Harm?"  There readers can get a glimpse at the worst - before it happens - and head trouble off at the pass. 

Here to help - 100%

As far as "support" goes, it's not all about money. Write - let TMR know it did you some good - which does TMR good:

Some will only be impressed, by displays of originality, over time

There was a time when very few thought The Macho Response would ever be seen as correct, on anything, because - they said - the topics being taken on, like NewAge, were "too big."

This was the very first time TMR was glad to see Dr. Oz on television

That hurt - a lot - right up until the tide started turning. But it did.

Yeah, you heard me - You're the white one.

So now the topic is race - specifically the white one.

Whoa - this blog's about problems arising from cultish thinking - Wait a minute!

IT'S JUST TOO FUCKING BIG!!!!

"Too fucking big" leads, naturally, to a picture of Dirk Diggler - that's all you get about art - Think

So check it, shout to someone there's a blog they can trust, whether they'll like the style (or positions taken) or not. That alone *might* bring TMR something more, some day. You never know.

You don't have a country unless somebody's got your back

Right now - at this very moment - just hearing of someone else's actual benefit (yes, even a white person's) is more-than-enough to keep going,...

When I'm Wrong About Something (I'll Let You Know)

Professor Edzard Ernst has officially joined TMR's dark side:

"It appears more and more as though homeopathy is fast degenerating into a cult characterised by the unquestioning commitment and unconditional submission of its members who are too heavily brain-washed to realize that their fervour has isolated them from the rational sections of society. And a cult is hardly what we need in heath care, I should think." 

  I've told you and told you and told you - just like with race,…

 

Think Of TMR As An Unintentional Oversight Committee

Did I ever mention The most thorough and independent assessment of homeopathy ever conducted? If not, I should have. Sorry. Here's the results, as phrased by Prof. Edzard Ernst (because I liked his phrasing better) and as if you needed to hear it:

"Not for a single health condition was there reliable evidence that homeopathy was effective."

One of these days, when homeopathy's dead bodies are lined up end-to-end, some of you are going to be just as conflicted - about being Whole Foods shoppers - as I am about having been married.

 

It won't be quite that bad, though, I hope,...

 

This Could Be My Favorite Edzard Ernst Quote By Far

"MUCH OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IS UNETHICAL."

Dipping Into Deceptions Is What I Doop-Dee-Doo-Doo-Do

Prof. Edzard Ernst is, once again, revealing the real skinny:

The alchemists of alternative evidence – part 1: introduction

It is usually BIG PHARMA who stands accused of being less than honest with the evidence, particularly when it runs against commercial interests; and the allegations prove to be correct with depressing regularity. In alternative medicine, commercial interests exist too, but there is usually much less money at stake. So, a common assumption is that conflicts of interest are less relevant in alternative medicine. Like so many assumptions in this area, this notion is clearly and demonstrably erroneous.

The sums of money are definitely smaller, but non-commercial conflicts of interest are potentially more important than the commercial ones. I am thinking of the quasi-religious beliefs that are so very prevalent in alternative medicine. Belief can move mountains, they say – it can surely delude people and make them do the most extraordinary things,....

It's a multipart series - and his integrity is without question: 

 Unlike some other professors I'm familiar with,…

A Quick Way 4 Conservatives To Break With The Nazis

O.K., Tea Partiers, fight back. There it is, right there - GO - hurry, you can win this one:

  “I have written about this subject before, and I probably will do so again. The reason for my insistence is simple: some homeopathy-fans’ attitude towards and advice about immunizations is, in my view, nothing short of a scandal.” 

 I expect to see some results - politically - as soon as possible, because from what I hear, these "scandal" thingies are pret-ty important:

Might even get you some positive press,…

 

Too Bad (Our Gay & Feminist Friends Said Otherwise)

Reading a real doctor, as opposed to fake professors, Dr. Edzard Ernst has compiled a list of appropriate alternative medicine-related gifts for the NewAger in your life:

FOR THE CHIROPRACTOR

Chiropractic was invented about 120 years ago when D.D. Palmer adjusted a subluxation in the neck of a deaf janitor who could then hear again,...I suggest to give them a textbook of anatomy; there they can read up how the inner ear is connected to the brain via nerves which do not even pass via the spine but remain safely in the skull. I am sure the chiropractor will appreciate this news; it will make her think and she might even start doubting whether the rest of the gospel of Mr Palmer is correct."

Sigh.

It hurts to think - since my "significant other" was totally into all the mentioned practices - how she would've really made out this year,...

 

Head Case

Everybody stay calm, alright? Me and the good doctor will do all the freaking out for everybody:

  "Homeopaths truly live on a different planet, a planet where belief is everything and responsibility is an alien concept. I certainly hope that they will not take over planet earth in a hurry. If I imagine a world where homeopaths dominate primary care in the way it is suggested in this article, I start having nightmares. It seems to me that people who harbour ideas of this type are not just deluded to the point of madness but they are a danger to public health."

I can attest to that:

My own nightmares are just subsiding after 7 years,..

 

You Ever Skipped A Rock & Hit A Flying Bird? Oh Man, There's Ripples Everywhere - And You're Eating Tonight!

Right Wing News' John Hawkins posts a lot of good, thought-provoking stuff, and he's got another one ready for us today:

  "If Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and let’s face it, pretty much everyone on MSNBC weren’t around, would Lakim Faust have been murdering white people? Maybe it’s time to start asking that question."

Maybe it is - there's a lot of Americans dying but, in my experience, that didn't seem to be *too much* of a problem until whites were targets of blacks. So, the first question most blacks would think "it’s time to start asking" wouldn't be on coverage of the issue, finally, but why hasn't more of it been everywhere? 

I'd bet you that one, long-enduring fact of American life, is enough to enrage a whole lot of Americans and - except when exploited as a ploy to "tweak" the Left -  even Right Wing News, sad to say, may be partially responsible for that. 

But honestly, between post-racial Republicans, our questions don't always have to be confrontations about race, do they? How about some answers? 

Like, speaking of our buddies at MSNBC, when they're asked a question like ""Is there science to back up the effectiveness of alternative treatments?" do you think the following is the proper answer?

"If you’re looking for the same kind of rigorous, double-blinded, placebo-controlled studies that set the gold standard in Western medicine, they might be harder to find when it comes to alternative treatments. 

"Many of these modalities are more personalized, less standardized, and so are harder to study in that way," she says. In spite of these differences, in recent years an increasing number of studies has provided verification of the effectiveness of alternative therapies — most notably, meditation, acupuncture and herbal remedies."

That probably IS the answer if you're a listener to the homeopath, Michael Savage, or the advocate, Rush Limbaugh, but what does the most knowledgable scientist in alternative medicine say? Along with "much of alternative medicine resembles a cult," Prof. Edzard Ernst finds science "might be harder to find" as well, but he's a little bit more conclusive:

"I have seen far too many of those bogus studies to have much patience left. They do not represent an honest test of anything, simply because we know their result even before the trial has started. They are not science but thinly disguised promotion. They are not just a waste of money, they are dangerous – because they produce misleading results – and they are thus also unethical."

If this is the truth, and you, John Hawkins, have a sincere interest in fixing the woes of this nation beyond pointing out what horrible people some blacks are - and I, just as sincerely, think you do - then I challenge you to become EVEN MORE INTERESTED in eliminating the cult-like influence of this equally "dangerous" and "unethical" scourge from the face of our nation. 

Why? Because, just like the equally superficial concept of race, the quackery inherent in "alternative" medicine has been the motivation and instigation for murder and countless other crimes world-wide - most notably fraud - while being promoted by Left and Right Wing thought leaders alike. And, strategically speaking, since the vast majority of political promoters are on the Left, we'd be undermining a major source of strength to the Democrats - both financially and "spiritually" - while dispelling myths that have wedded American society to Europe's Dark Ages for centuries. 

And that brings me back to America's racial problems:

Confirming certainties dispels uncertainties.

Like whether A) as Rudy Giuliani's "Broken windows theory" suggested, the low-hanging fruit of science and politics have larger implications culturally, and B) there's a possibility the American Right Wing will ever join the 21st Century:

Within the 21st Century, that is,...