This is related to that last post. It looks like Paul Offithas a book out, and he's kinda well-known in these parts but, now (music to my ears) the good doctor sounds a little more pissed than I remember:
Offit says it infuriates him to see not only ordinary citizens buy into the claims of homeopaths, naturopaths and the vitamin industry, but doctors and hospitals. He calls out Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Deepak Chopra and others, saying they have abandoned science for the thrill of celebrity that goes with evangelizing alternative medicine.
“They have this almost guru-like stature that you should listen to them,” Offit says. “It is the surety of their statements that draw you to them. They make you think they are someone who just knows. But it should be the strength of data, the strength of science, rather than personality, that decide what it is true.”
Weil, for instance, has promoted the plant kava as a non-addictive relaxant. “Seven years later, when kava was shown to cause severe liver damage, the FDA issued a warning against its use,” Offit writes. But few consumers are aware. Weil sells his own line of supplements.
Chopra sells a line of supplements, oils, books and even jewelry. “Chopra has helped wealthy businessmen, celebrities and politicians like Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, Winona Ryder, Debra Winger, Madonna, Mikhail Gorbachev. Michael Milken and Hillary Clinton find their inner space without feeling bad about being rich,” Offit writes.
I don't know what that last line means but, it's against NewAge so,...Go Paul! You might have to "dial it down a little" for television, but you go 'head, man. TMR's got your back, good buddy.
If anyone ever wanted proof NewAgers have no values, they need look no further than Arianna Huffington:
Although Arianna Huffington has achieved worldwide fame as an internet pioneer, her comfort with self-publicity turning her into the face of what may be the future of news websites, she also nurses a lifelong love for therapies that she calls "natural" and others call something else. Fire walking, homeopathy, infrared saunas – Huffington has tried them all over the years, never struggling to balance what some might see as two contrary schools of thought in her head: the hard cutting edge of new media and the fluffy airy-fairiness of New Age.
In her private office – which is almost as glossy as she is, filled with plush armchairs and an intricately carved desk – books by Andrew Weil (an advocate for vitamin supplements who has written numerous books on self healing through breathing, "energy food" and "vibrational sound") sit happily alongside David Remnick's tub thumper tome, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. On her desk, bottles of tinctures are placed in front of a photo of her with Queen Rania of Jordan and a handwritten note inviting her to brunch, signed Russell Simmons (whose book Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All is also on Huffington's bookcase, as though she needs any advice on that score.) Even though Christmas was two months ago, particular holiday cards linger on her window sill, including one from Joe Biden and another from a couple whose photo on the front is jarringly familiar: "Seasons greetings," it reads inside. "Tony, Cherie and family."
In short, it is all a testament to how much Huffington's eponymous website – on which features espousing holistic therapies run alongside political pieces about, say, John McCain or Egypt and columns by her celebrity friends, such as Nora Ephron – reflects the personality of its founder. But it's a personality that has puzzled some by its fluidity, "a mind as flexible as her body is unwieldy", as a 2008 profile of Huffington in the New Yorker magazine put it. Huffington has been, at various times, a self-help writer, a political pundit, an antagonist of feminists, a champion of women's causes, a follower of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, the champion of new media, a supporter of Newt Gingrich, a fan of President Obama, a Republican and a Democrat.
Andrew Weil - the original acid head betrayer and NewAge quack doctor.
Barack Obama - brought to the public by Oprah Winfrey, the NewAge TV host.
Russell Simmons - Hip-Hop mogul turned self-help writing Buddhist.
Joe Biden - Joe Biden.
Cherie Blair - wife of Tony and NewAge loon.
Holistic therapies - AKA quackery.
Nora Ephron - a disgusting human being.
'Denialists' are those who reject the substantive technological benefits of modern science—medicines and vaccines to treat and prevent illnesses, or techniques to enhance the quality and quantity of agricultural yields. At the same time, they cling to an unsubstantiated faith in the advantages of 'natural' alternatives such as vitamins, supplements, and organic foods. The term encompasses a diverse array of quacks and crackpots, ranging from New Age celebrities like Andrew Weil to reactionary patricians like Charles, Prince of Wales. What unites them is a hostility to reason that, when amplified in society, threatens the ability of scientists to pursue real solutions to such problems as disease, hunger, and malnutrition."
And before anyone says, "Well, look, Arianna's so successful!" we'll remind you she's only successful because A) she divorced her husband and took his money, and B) the rest of you have so bought into the bogus concept of being "non-judgmental" that no one has seriously questioned what lies she's told and what harm she's committed.
To show you how pathetic it all is, the self-titled "Greek Goddess" is openly flaunting a belief system that was a laughing stock by the 80s and killed many people since - NewAge - but not one journalist has directly asked her "NewAge? Really? Astrology and homeopathy? Come on. Why should we take anything you say seriously?" Let a politician make a gaffe and he might lose his job, let Arianna Huffington make a series of them (while peddling NewAge quackery that's killed kids) and she gets a raise.
That's why she's successful. Mark our words:
Arianna Huffington's role in American life will eventually go down as a shame of the nation.
Look, we told you, and told you, and told you, but your punk asses don't listen (make a note: not listening? That's what we call a major flaw in your make-up. You need to work on that, pronto.) so you're repeating the same mistakes in different ways and thinking you're making "change" when you've got your representative of that change in the White House and can see how it's going.
What's wrong with you?
Above is that video we posted a few days ago. (Yes, we want you to watch it again, but this time ignoring the George W. Bush parts because, as we told you, the bitch is a socialist and was/is wrong about her political views, as history has already shown us.)
Today we want you to pay attention to the parts where she says, over the last decade, the decade when Baby Boomers were in charge - the biggest, most dominant generation in history - if you gave them accurate information, you were marginalized, and, if you told the truth, you got fired.
That's what's important to us now.
Recognizing how much damage a huge gang of jerks (and that's what Boomers are) could insist on doing to good, intelligent people's lives, and then trying to not repeat the Boomer's mistake.
What's the mistake? You idiot, are you new around here?
Wait - let us rephrase that - how many idiots do you know who pay to have their lives wasted and insist on trying to convince others to do the same - while regularly railing about evangelical Christians for basically the same behavior and beliefs?
You've got to get out of the lotus position, roll up the yoga mats, and then help your neighbor to do the same.
The two of you can empty out the medicine cabinets of all your "alternative" medicines, and then, go to the pharmacy and buy some real ones that work.
Throw out, or turn off, anything that reeks of Oprah Winfrey (which includes the spinoffs by Dr. Phil or Dr. Oz or that sunny bitch with the cooking show) Tony Robbins, Andrew Weil, Kevin Trudeau, Shirley MacLaine, Jane Fonda, or even the younger outliers like Jenny McCarthy, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Lady GaGa - anybody that never got off, or seemed to have been born on, the Magical Mystery Tour bus - just abandon them all.
Immediately.
That means NOW.
Remember "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out"?
This is the same exact thing, except you're tuning back onto reality, and dropping out of the stupid matrix these rich fucks have constructed for you to live in.
Don't think so? Well then, answer us this:
Other than dying, how easy is it to avoid Oprah Winfrey?
Hey - I'm here today (I'm out of work, where else would I be?) but my music software got corrupted overnight, somehow, so I've got to spend a bit of time backing up my stuff before I can do much else. Sorry - can't be helped.
I've put some of the more neglected tags at the bottom of this post so, if you want, you can amuse yourselves with some of the less-seen items/topics until I get started again - and just keep clicking from there. I won't be too long:
I'll be putting something new up between each stage of the operation.
Have fun!
CMC
P.S.
Clicking on the "music" or "videos" tags, and continuing on to the Older Posts at the bottom of each page, is bound to surprise you.
