TMR Podcast #2: Kanye, Katt, Clinton And Carrey

 

 Mentioned in today's podcast: 

  Kanye West has teeth REMOVED and replaced with $850K TITANIUM dentures 

 Breathwork study: Largest controlled trial to date finds no benefits beyond placebo effect 

  A Message To Kanye by The Crack Emcee

  Robert De Niro pictured with celebrity anti-vaccination squad Jim Carrey, Robert F Kennedy, Jr.

   

If This Doesn't Heal You It's Only Because You're Still Not Believing Hard Enough

“I love saying homeopathy works. But it has never been shown to work...There are many things that work as placebo, but it’s not ethical selling them as a cure. I would have a bit more time for it if there was a plausible theory behind it, but its basis is entirely implausible – it pushes all the buttons for being a pseudoscience,...I am at a bit of a loss to understand why they haven’t carried that logic over into complementary medicines generally.”

The Left can grapple with any idea but the cultism running through it, causing whole sections of liberal society to behave in all these obvious ways (people who HAVE to do yoga, HAVE to take homeopathic concoctions, or HAVE to engage with illogical NewAge beliefs and dangerous pseudoscience, etc.) leaving the rest wondering "why they haven’t carried that logic over" into all aspects of their lives - like their supposed-love for science, or how to grow voter registration rolls.

The Left's cult is trapped in a homeopathic preparation of it's own making - with expected results.

People Who Can Kill And Walk Away ARE Pretty Special

The best sentence I've read all morning, edited, for NewAgers and clarity:

"Americans,..think they are rejecting the narrow-minded bias of the Western,...establishment, but they’re just adopting someone else’s narrow-minded bias."

Here's a whole paragraph of common sense, if you're starving:

"There is a debate to be had about the ethics of placebo treatments in human medicine, especially when it comes to pain. If a treatment makes you feel better, in some cases that’s just as good as actual improvement. Animals, however, don’t experience the placebo effect. They don’t know why we’re sticking them with needles or stuffing ground-up herbs down their throats. Those things only make you feel better. That’s not why you go to the vet."

Yes it is, God damn it:

Yes it God damn is,…

 

How Americans Waste Money Complaining About Waste

Science can find this a billion times over, and the fools keep letting these charlatans put even more holes in their bodies than the ones they have anyway, being all too "spiritual" while others go without:

  Acupuncture is little more than a theatrical placebo.

Damn, you guys, go to the theater - or the movies, even. At least, then, you'd be getting something for it,…

 

Respectable Negroes Don't Like The Right's Ben Carson

Give me strength.

I watched Ben Carson's CPAC speech last night and wasn't impressed - the man's hardly electrifying. But I noticed Chauncey DeVega (of the blog We Are Respectable Negroes) watched it, too, and he really ain't havin' it. 

This is how the drafting of Ben Carson looks to blacks.

He ain't havin' it, he ain't havin' it, and, as far as he's concerned, this-will-not-stand:

 "Carson's role,...a black human mascot and cheerleader for the White Right,...

...Ben Carson’s fulfilling of the Republican Party’s fantasy that African-Americans are somehow hoodwinked and bamboozled in their decades of support for the Democratic Party is the first lie.

Here, Republicans, movement conservatives, and the White Right have reframed centuries of black citizenship and struggles for freedom into a narrative wherein African-Americans are dumb, stupid, and childlike.

Apparently, African-Americans are not reasoning and sophisticated citizens capable of making their own decisions in the service of collective self-interest. No. They are stuck on a “plantation” and need black conservatives such as Ben Carson and Herman Cain to rescue them.

...Carson is a placebo, a fake drug and a high, a salve for Republicans. His purpose, like that of other black conservatives, is to be human chaff, an ointment, which relieves them from the mountain of evidence and charges that the Republican Party is a racist organization.

This is NOT the version of "Good Times" I'm used to watching.

A placebo? Wow - a homeopathy metaphor! I like this guy. It IS funny how the very people who claim not to see race, all of a sudden, have found a black man to run with their philosophy - and they know it's an obviously hypocritical race play (and an attempt at racial manipulation) but, desperate, they're plowing ahead anyway, no matter how it looks.

"The case for Carson is all about math and race. Carson is African-American and his supporters think that will be his path to victory."

This black? Good luck with that.

Whites (and Ben Carson himself) seem confused. Sure, blacks notice when a new player is on the field, but it's not like we see another face like ours and lose our minds. It's insulting. Any black person will see through it. And - especially because of that - Ben Carson will appeal to very few.

All aboard the night train!

Hell, considering the readership of We Are Respectable Negroes - and TMR - it appears he's lost more than few already,…

 

It's Hard: My Mother-In-Law Died Being Fed Placeboes

"The type of observational study that homeopaths are so fond of yields false-positive results. If we correct them – as the authors have done here for just one single factor, the RTM – the effect size gets significantly smaller. If we were able to correct them for some of the other factors, the effect size would shrink more and more. And if we were able to correct them for all confounders, their results would almost certainly concur with those of rigorously controlled trials which demonstrate that homeopathic remedies are pure placebos.

I am quite sure that this interpretation is unpopular with homeopaths, but I am equally certain that it is correct."

A Clinton Cult (Baptizes Napoleon's Nightmares In Stars)

"My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Dominque (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world."

- Napoleon Bonaparte, making me laugh

 

"It takes more than a horrifying transatlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to erase someone's culture."

- Maya Angelou, my babysitter back-in-the-day

 

Starchild,...is a divine alien being who came to earth from a spaceship (his arrival is "the Mothership Connection") to bring the holy Funk (with a capital "F": the cause of creation and source of energy and all life) to humanity. As it turns out, Starchild secretly worked for Dr. Funkenstein, the intergalactic master of outer space Funk, who is capable of fixing all of man’s ills, because the "bigger the headache, the bigger the pill" and he’s the "big pill". Dr. Funkenstein’s predecessors had encoded the secrets of Funk in the Pyramids because humanity wasn’t ready for its existence until,...everyone is on the One.

Starchild’s nemesis is Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk ("Sir Nose Devoid of Funk"),...Sir Nose attempts to end the Funk because he is too cool to dance. He is the master of the Placebo Syndrome, which causes unFunkiness (a combination of stupidity and no dancing). His goal is to place the minds of all humanity into a state called the Zone of Zero Funkativity. Starchild, on the other hand, uses his Bop Gun to achieve "Funkentelechy" for all humanity. With the Funky powers of the Bop Gun (which are augmented by the Flash Light....Shine the light on them suckas!!!), Starchild causes Sir Nose to reach Funkentelechy, and find his Funky soul. He then dances away the night.

- George Clinton's Mothership Connection (1979 - South Central, Los Angeles' soundtrack the year I graduated High School) predicting NewAge's rise ("the Placebo Syndrome") would lead whites (Sir Nose) off course until modern man (Starchild) identified the problem (using the Flashlight) to show Nose the way to true freedom (The Funk).

 

"Never learned to swim,


Can't catch the rhythm of the stroke
!

Why should I hold my breath?

Feelin' that I might choke!"

Things ya blow through, 
because of things ya swim through

Why hold your nose to spite your face?

With the rhythm that makes you dance to 
what we have to live through

You can dance underwater and not get wet, OH!!!

- "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)", Mothership Connection's happy conclusion, when the spirits of "Atlantis" (the Atlantic Slave Trade) force Sir Nose's dance floor discovery:

That to address what's bubbled up from under the sea ("What we have to live through"
) doesn't have to get anybody killed ("wet").

Honesty's The Best Policy (Unless Fraud Works)

So, after a full two hundred years of individuals and "professional" organizations denying Homeopathy is just a placebo, we now know somebody's lying - or really, really stupid - because, without a doubt, Homeopathy IS just a placebo.

A placebo some people appear to get more-than-just-a-little bit crazy over.

O.K., not more-than-just-a-little bit crazy, but a lot more.

Like something cultish has come over them.

Like they'll die if they can't have their magic water.

Researchers say it's the "unique consultations" of the homeopaths that appear to work on their "patients" (we put patients in quotes because -- wait for it -- homeopaths aren't doctors) but isn't what's unique about cults what good talkers the leaders are?

At this rate, it'll probably take another 200 years for someone to finally crack that one open, as well.

Now If Only We Can Find A Cure For Narcissism

So it's just as we said all along - Homeopathy is a cure for narcissists:

Sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis who visited a homeopathic doctor experienced significant reductions in pain, inflammation and other key markers of the disease, the research shows.

Yet it made no difference whether the solution they received was a genuine homeopathic tincture prescribed to treat rheumatism, or a placebo.

The research, published today in the journal Rheumatology compared different groups of patients, who were already being given conventional medication for the disease.

Those who had a series of five consultations with a homeopathic doctor experienced “significant clinical benefits,” - whether the tincture they received was a specially prepared “homeopathic” remedy used to treat rheumatism, or a placebo.

Patients given exactly the same remedies without the consultations did not gain the improvements.

The study’s authors said the findings suggested that simply “talking and listening” to patients could dramatically assist their health.

Prof George Lewith, Professor of Health Research from Southampton University, said: “This research asked the question: 'Is homeopathy about the talking, or is it about the medicine?’ We found it was about the talking, and indeed about the listening.”

Awww. So, let's see - if you've GOT to be the center of attention - even if it means paying somebody to listen to you yammer on and on, for an hour or more, about how boring your inner life is (which is why nobody else will listen to you) then these lying water salesmen are the way to go.

Great.

It makes perfect cents - and/or a completely embarrassing (and horrifically fraudulent) $12 billion industry.

Cheers.

A Letter To The Guardian (From The Guardian)

Hi, kids.

I just wrote a letter** to The Guardian, U.K.'s Martin Robbins, because he wrote a column about homeopathy that, I think, continues to lead people away from the true nature of the matter, which (as you know) is NewAge.

I thought I'd reprint it here (without links) because, frankly, after re-living some of this, I'm tired of writing for the moment, but still wanted to put something up for those who expect it of me. Here it is:

"Dear Martin,

You say the elephant in the room is placebos, but the truth is, it's homeopathy's 'vital force' that's not being discussed.

I would bet you any amount of money that, if you polled the users of homeopathy, who seem strangely drawn to this magic water - beyond all reason - you would find the majority of it's fans are also members of the NewAge Movement.

The 'spiritual' connection is what's being overlooked here. And, because it's overlooked, we get the 'surreal spectacle on a par with watching a geologists' union arguing what their position on the likelihood of a flat Earth should be.'

Think about it: what's the difference between this and doctors pondering the Holy Water at Lourdes? And isn't the response of believers (and that's what they are) the same? Neither group of users needs evidence, even of healing, to tell them what's what - they're telling you.

Even worse, to the hilarity of homeopathy's fans and practitioners everywhere, the doctors are falling for it. They're actually discussing the merits of water. Can you get anymore Alice In Wonderland-y than that? They've even got you - you - pondering turning doctors into liars to appease them. They demand that everyone appease them, or else,...what? They're not going to die: they're not sick - except in the head. At worst, they're merely the 'worried well'. People with more money than sense - and a burning desire to make the rest of us accept their beliefs.

So what is the answer? Draw a line in the sand for science - as skeptics have done with Global Warming - and shut it down. Call homeopathy by it's true name - fraud - and arrest the charlatans peddling it. (Including Prince Charles, if necessary.) Outlaw homeopathy being sold in pharmacies. Give the followers of NewAge no where to indulge their belief without ridicule from those they attempted to fool - the rest of us. Stop all research (their ultimate Get Out Of Jail Free card) and put that money back into doing science.

Because NewAgers will not respond to evidence or reason - even after they've killed someone - they should be allowed no escape from reality. If they get depressed, because there's no outlet for their fantasies, tough. Get them to a shrink. Just don't allow them to drive the rest of us to the funny farm - or, for instance, to discussing the merits of water - which is, ultimately, the same thing.

Finally, I want to tell you how I came to understand this phenomena:

I was once married to a NewAger - a woman who, on various occasions, called herself a healer, a god, and claimed she could walk through walls. (If you read about NewAge beliefs, you'll find they all make outrageous claims of one kind or another.)

She left me for a homeopath. Later, this 'doctor', with my ex acting as his assistant, took the lives of three people - the first being my former mother-in-law. As with the current discussion, at the time of my mother-in-law's death no one thought NewAge had anything to do with it, so - as I begged every manner of authority for help (police, doctors, spiritualists - you name it) I was characterized as a man suffering from mental problems, brought on by sour grapes because my wife had left me.

It wasn't until two years after my divorce, while I was living in utter isolation and despair (I had been a popular San Francisco recording artist) that the authorities sought me out over the two deaths that followed.

Luckily enough, these later victim's families weren't taking their loved one's deaths lying down either, and demanded an investigation - which finally led the authorities to re-open the quack's file and find all the evidence I had given them years earlier.

Here, I'd like to address another facet of this phenomena that's overlooked:

Because of the effects on my life from what, to many, is merely water - not a full-blown belief system - I've lost my marriage, all of my friends, all of my money (my ex gave it to the quack for their 'business') my career, and much of my faith and trust in the workings of society, and my fellow man. (The result of 'friends' who didn't listen to me, before, and could not look me in the eye, later, because they had abandoned me in my time of need.) My life, and the lives of many others that have encountered this - some who I have spoken with - was destroyed.

No homeopath, or NewAger, is going to openly tell you of the destruction they leave in their wake - and very few ask or investigate.

Most people think of NewAge, and homeopathy, as just silly - which is a great cover for allowing them to continue wrecking things - like modern medicine itself.

I have a blog: http://themachoresponse.blogspot.com

It's too intense for many people's tastes, but, at this point, I make no apologies for how I feel and view the world. I not only despise NewAge but also the dance I see going on around it, such as the one you describe in your article with medical professionals acting like delusional idiots themselves:

This has to stop.

CMC"

**This letter had to be sent under my old pen name of SHAMScamSam, unfortunately, because I had registered with The Guardian, years ago, with it.