Blue Bonnet Plague
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by zagor 53 Replies latest watchtower medical
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EvilForce
Yes...it was the great margarine plague of the 14th century...LOL
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bikerchic
Margarine
Butter
Margarine
Butter
Margarine
Butter
Margarine
Butter
Stop it I tell you it's margarine, "Well it taste like butter".
Everythings better with Blue Bonnet on it......
Okay the comerical is over, back to regular programing.
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the_classicist
It's way better just to have butter in moderation than margarine, which is a unnatural substance. Stick with natural and no processing and you'll probably live a long and healthy life (advice I should take ).
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Billygoat
Evil Force,
Before you go ranting about how someone's ignorance astounds you, perhaps you should give credit where credit is due. I realize you claim to be in the in the medical community (doctor of neurology, right?) but isn't it common knowledge to always give credit to the writer when you share their quote? I find it interesting that your quote (shown below):
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...sounds amazingly similar to something I've read on Yahoo at http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20020417.html:
Consumption is an old name for tuberculosis (TB) that describes how the illness wastes away or consumes its victims. TB is "an ancient enemy" that has plagued humankind for more than five thousand years. The Greeks called it phthisis, and Hippocrates advised his medical students against treating it, because it was almost always deadly, and a dead patient was bad for business.
Caused by a highly contagious bacterial infection, TB is blamed for 20% of the deaths in 17th-century London and 30% of those in 19th-century Paris (as depicted in Moulin Rouge). In those days, the disease proved deadly for about 80% of its victims. It's estimated that TB has killed over 1 billion people in the last two centuries. But we have anitbiotics now that cure it.Consumption is an old name for tuberculosis (TB) that describes how the illness wastes away or consumes its victims. TB is "an ancient enemy" that has plagued humankind for more than five thousand years. The Greeks called it phthisis, and Hippocrates advised his medical students against treating it, because it was almost always deadly, and a dead patient was bad for business.
Caused by a highly contagious bacterial infection, TB is blamed for 20% of the deaths in 17th-century London and 30% of those in 19th-century Paris (as depicted in Moulin Rouge). In those days, the disease proved deadly for about 80% of its victims. It's estimated that TB has killed over 1 billion people in the last two centuries.
It makes me feel better to know that someone in the medical community gathers a percentage of their medical knowledge from Yahoo. And then tries to pass it off as their own knowledge by not giving credit to the appropriate place.
Call it a gut feeling, but I don't think you are who you claim to be. Care to defend yourself?
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greendawn
This is another conspiracy theory, that the big drug companies have a lot of influence on the FDA and through it and through general propaganda in the mass media suppress any cheap substances (or alternative therapy methods) that can cure a disease so they can have the market for their expensive products.
Given the billions of $ at stake I tend to believe that there is some truth in this allegation, that they are amoral enough to do something like this. -
Billygoat
Given the billions of $ at stake I tend to believe that there is some truth in this allegation, that they are amoral enough to do something like this.
I worked for one of the top three pharma company out there. If other pharma companies run their business like them, it wouldn't surprise me if this were truth. They really are a bunch of rabid, money hungry dogs. I'm so glad I got out of it.
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EvilForce
Billygoat....
Skully and I were discussing "cutting and pasting" on another thread. I did not find the information you cited at Yahoo. As I pointed out on the other thread with 2 mins of searching the same verbiage is found on 5 unique sites. All without source info. So who do you quote as the "cited" source? I use a Macintosh, and JWD is not user friendly this way. JWD doesn't recognize "clickable" links from Mac's....hence the short "cut and paste". Since "consumption" as such is not listed in medical reference materials, it is listed as TB. As the original question was a rather simplistic question, it calls for a simple answer. If she/he had asked for a list of issues regarding it, obviously that paragraph wouldn't have been appropriate.
As you learned in the KH, remember your audience when giving a speech. If I posted a long drawn out highly clinical post, then I get accused of being a pontificating, know-it-all, wind bag. Post a simple, short, ancedotal paragraph and get accused of being a fraud.
Your post **They really are a bunch of rabid, money hungry dogs. I'm so glad I got out of it.**
Perhaps you are jaded and embittered by the medical community. What is your axe to grind? Call it a hunch...but I think you are not a fan of the modern medical profession. Care to defend yourself?
The FDA gets lampooned on all sides. Certain patients are screaming for experimental drugs to get approved. The drug companies have billions of $$$ riding on an approval. Yet when a COX2 drug creates health problems politicos and consumers scream bloody murder. It's a tough balancing act. Are their bad apples in the bunch. Sure. But 95% of the folks are trying to do their jobs while keeping in mind that the patient's well being is the end all be all. To suggest otherwise is crazy. -
Satanus
Perhaps you are jaded and embittered by the medical community.
Her arrow was aimed at pharma, not medical. Although medical is greatly influenced by the huge pharmaceuticals.
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Jim_TX
Evilforce...
*yawn*
Your 'intelligence' does not impress me... your lack of facts is astonishing... this whole topic is now beginning to bore me.
*shrug*
I think I'll go do something more productive than sit and read words typed by someone who makes unfounded accusations. (Hint: you.)
If you _really_ want to educate yourself about some medical issues, just go and sit in the Emergency Room at a local hospital here in San Antonio some evening. Just listen to the people who have been sitting there, in pain for over 24 hours - just waiting to have some 'miracle worker' doctor look at them. *rolls eyes* (That's not even talking about the one gal who was waiting for over 12 hours, and then went into the restroom and slit her wrists - JUST so she could get a doctor to look at her.)
Regards,
Jim TX