I was searching through the hard drive for an old picture today when I found this pic.
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I don't recall when or where I took it. But I took it because it effectively sums up my biggest beef with all forms of alternative medicine including acupuncture.
Just about everyone loves to slam pharmaceutical companies as being nothing but pure evil but here's the reality. No pharma company can make ANY claim about one of their products without having hard data to back that claim up. And that data must be produced by outside labs using study methods approved by the federal government. Right wrong or indifferent, that's how it is. If big pharma wants to advertise a claim, they MUST be able to back it up and if they make a claim they can't back up, they get fined up the wazoo by the feds.
But this fucking yahoo can plant as many signs as he likes claiming that his bullshit human needle point hobby will definitively prevent swine flu or cancer or aids or whatever else he wants to claim and he has to have zero data in order to do it and he has to answer to no one if he's proven wrong. Plain and simple, that is just not right. Anyone making health related claims about their product or service should be held to exact same standards as the pharma industry and should face the same level of penalty if their claims are shown to be bogus.
I don't recall when or where I took it. But I took it because it effectively sums up my biggest beef with all forms of alternative medicine including acupuncture.
Just about everyone loves to slam pharmaceutical companies as being nothing but pure evil but here's the reality. No pharma company can make ANY claim about one of their products without having hard data to back that claim up. And that data must be produced by outside labs using study methods approved by the federal government. Right wrong or indifferent, that's how it is. If big pharma wants to advertise a claim, they MUST be able to back it up and if they make a claim they can't back up, they get fined up the wazoo by the feds.
But this fucking yahoo can plant as many signs as he likes claiming that his bullshit human needle point hobby will definitively prevent swine flu or cancer or aids or whatever else he wants to claim and he has to have zero data in order to do it and he has to answer to no one if he's proven wrong. Plain and simple, that is just not right. Anyone making health related claims about their product or service should be held to exact same standards as the pharma industry and should face the same level of penalty if their claims are shown to be bogus.
