There's No Quota (On Quackery)

 

 A little lite reading - Killing in the name of healing: the active role of the German medical profession during the Third Reich

Surprisingly, NOT another Spielberg production - Film about Israeli settler violence wins best documentary award at Berlin Film Festival 

   

  Trump says 'the Black people' like him because he's been 'discriminated against' in the legal system. You know, like black people.

J.Y. Park’s Latest Activities Go Viral, Renewing “Cult Leader” Allegations, because no one can help themselves when cultism calls. That's TMR's great insight, anyway. 

    

 Dietary supplement Pills sold nationwide contain poison, FDA warns, AFTER they've failed to regulate dietary supplements adequately for decades. Good job.

   

  As Google Retracts Gemini, Deepak Chopra Reflects On Morality In AI, when the real mystery is how Deepak Chopra is talking to Forbes. Have they no shame?

   

  Measles cases are rising in the U.S. Here’s why misinformation about the vaccine persists today, but take your time on this, because - as Andrew Wakefield would say - this list is definitely incomplete.

 

Sticking To What They Know (And What They Don't,...)

Forbes is really starting to get it - here's "Today's Alternative Medicine Accidental Humor":

"I never went near the heart-lung machine, but stood with my hands on the patient’s head for most of the surgery. In heart-transplant surgeries, I would go to the ice chest to try to get a reading on the history of the heart that was coming into the new body, and pick up information about how the donor had died."

Works every time,...

 

We "Bigots" Are Coming Out In Force Now,...

Oh goodie - now Forbes Magazine is getting in on the act:

Well, this is one way to save money on health care.  The new British Minister of Health, Jeremy Hunt, is a firm believer in homeopathy, which treats disease using magic water solutions that contain – well, only water. 

Just a few days ago, British prime minister David Cameron shuffled his cabinet, moving Hunt from Minister of Culture to his new position in charge of health.  Within hours, Tom Chivers, a science editor at the Telegraph, reported on Hunt’s belief in homeopathy: 

“The man put in charge of the nation’s health policy is on record as supporting spending public money on magic water to cure disease.” 

He went on to add: 

“This is not unlike putting someone who thinks the Second World War began in 1986 in charge of the Department of Education.” 

Not surprisingly, Chivers’ blog post was flooded with hundreds of comments, many of them from upset defenders of homeopathy.  Most of their arguments boiled down to “I think it works for me, so there.”

Wonders upon wonders - “I think it works for me, so there,” is the same reaction I get! But not just for my stand against homeopathy, but to the idea of having a new First Lady that also uses it (while sitting on a prominent board for MS - which ain't the Dept. of Education, exactly, but you get the idea.) And then there's positioning her husband, who also believes in LOTS of silly and harmful things, as our new leader,…to replace our current one who,…how shall I put this? Believes in lots of silly and harmful things!

Absolute brilliance.

(I just received a hilariously insane comment yesterday, saying my "principled stand" was worthless, simply because he didn't think I could convince ANYONE ELSE from jumping off a bridge, as though preserving ONE'S OWN LIFE AND SANITY had no value. And this person thought they were being "smart." THAT - as far as I'm concerned - just shows you the level of intelligence I'm dealing with out there,...)

Anyway, it's a funny thing that Forbes would take such an obvious shot at an insane politician across the ocean, without pointing out the Romney's (and their supporters) because - let's face it - discussing the madness of homeopathy isn't exactly a burning topic on this side of the ocean. But, I guess, that's how it goes for now on:

I get to suffer through election year after election year, filled with someone saying someone ELSE is crazy - for doing the exact same crazy thing as THEM,…
 

Congratulations

"Women took the top four places on the annual Forbes Celebrity 100 Power List, with pop stars Madonna and Beyonce coming close behind Jolie and Winfrey."

-- Anil Dawar, ignoring what lying NewAge quack medicine shitbags three of those four are (as far as we know Beyonce's just boring) and yet, that's something we still don't feel about The Times Online.

Just Another Part Of The American Landscape

"Cults are notorious for convincing people to do the unthinkable. In March, a member of the now-defunct One Mind Ministries pleaded guilty to starving her son to death. Allegedly, she and other cult members stopped feeding the 1-year-old because he wouldn't say "amen" at mealtime.

Back in 1993, David Koresh's Branch Davidian sect ended in a conflagration after a 51-day standoff with the FBI. In 1978, over 900 members of the People's Temple died at Jonestown, Guyana, in a mass murder-suicide; and in 1997, scores of Heaven's Gate followers killed themselves in California."

-- Krystle M. Davis, mentioning many of the stories we've covered in her review intro for Jayanti Tamm's ''Cartwheels in a Sari'' (see the tags below) - and only mentioning once that cults are "mainstream" now (but not a word about stopping the zombie invasion) - like, maybe, even in Forbes Magazine.

Looking Through The Looking Glass Of Liberals

Oh goody - Forbes Magazine has provided us with a list of "The 25 Most Influential Liberals In The U.S. Media" - isn't that cool? Check out the names and then come look for their tags, to see what TMR has got on them. We haven't gotten around to them all, but many are familiar to us as dangerously clueless, overly-emotional hypocrites, cultists, and liars - this humiliating example of Paul Krugman's wisdom immediately leaps to mind (he's #1 on the list) since we hear he's still insisting we must adopt a Canadian version of Universal Healthcare after he was told how much it sucks.

Anyway, enjoy the (slide) show: Forbes "done good" with this one.