Who shops at the Health Fraud Store--err, I mean Health Food Store

[Gilby]

@BillyTheMountain

IF God forbid anyone you know gets cancer or high blood pressure or a life threatening depression, I’m praying you don’t send them to the health fraud store for some snake oil. You’re really much too sensible for that. Don’t try to carry this too far, the children are listening.

I’m not sure what you are implying, but the FDA’s one size fits all, let’s hold down the little companies by favoring the big, does not help with people’s health problems. If anyone I know gets sick, I want them and their doctor to choose what’s best for them to get better and actually have choice. Not all drugs work the same in everybody and they should not be restricted by what a government monopoly has picked and chosen to be on the market, but be restricted by what the actual effects and risks are. If supplements are recommended by the MD, then that should be accessible, not restricted or made excessively expensive (as the government intends to do). Some of us don’t get enough essential vitamins in our diet and may want to take a daily multi-vitamin, but that possibility is heading toward change, or at least towards higher costs for both the supplements and any medical care.

[BillyTheMountain]

@Gilby

I’m not sure what you are implying, but the FDA’s one size fits all, let’s hold down the little companies by favoring the big, does not help with people’s health problems. If anyone I know gets sick, I want them and their doctor to choose what’s best for them to get better and actually have choice.

I know there’s a grain of truth to what you’re saying, AND to some extent you are jacking the thread.

You’re still not sending your friends to a witch doctor or helath fraud store clerk who opens up Ryan’s [BluntRM] health fraud book to sell some snake oil off the shelf.

I thought you believed in evolution. I thought you believed in science. And not fraudulent science.

And I know the drug companies, fueled as they are by your almighty profit, hide negative results when it may interfere with profit, and that costs lives. And that system that calculates the cost of lives against the companies bottom line in the USA has been going on too long, even before the Ford Pinto death machines were deliberately left out to kill becasue the company calcualted the pay-out in lawsuits vs. the cost of resolving the problem.

[Gilby]

@BillyTheMountain

And I know the drug companies, fueled as they are by your almighty profit, hide negative results when it may interfere with profit, and that costs lives.

And therefore they would be liable to cover the damages, that hurts their profits and makes them do proper research to ensure quality before releasing a product. And yes, our legal system is broken and could use reform to get the true actual cost to be paid by whomever is at fault.

[BillyTheMountain]

Gilby: Our legal system is BROKEN??!

Wealthy criminals go free, poor cannot afford to prove they’re innocent.

Wealthy corporations lobby, and therefore make the laws and regulations.

Stop health fraud.