#fake medicine

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

James Randi's Challenge to Homeopathy Manufacturers and Retail Pharmacies

April 10-16 is Homeopathy Awareness Week.

Be aware that homeopathy is fake medicine and homeopaths are con artists.

[ Note: the 1023.org.uk website is now defunct. ]

https://web.randi.org/h---encyclopedia-of-claims.html

Homeopathy

This claimed healing modus is included here because it is an excellent example of an attempt to make sympathetic magic work. Its founder, Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1775?-1843), believed that all illnesses develop from only three sources: syphilis, venereal warts, and what he called “the itch.”

The motto of homeopathy is “Similia similibus curantur” (“Like cures like”). It claims that doses of substances that produce certain symptoms will relieve those symptoms; however, the “doses” are extremely attenuated solutions or mixtures, so attenuated that not a single molecule of the original substance remains. In fact, the homeopathic corrective is actually pure water, nothing more. The theory is that the vibrations or “effect” of the diluted-out substance are still present and work on the patient. Currently, researchers in homeopathy are examining a new notion that water can be magnetized and can transmit its medicinal powers by means of a copper wire. Really.

The royal family of England adopted homeopathy at its very beginning and have retained a homeopathic physician on staff ever since.

The only concern of homeopaths is to treat the symptoms of disease, rather than the basic causes, which they do not recognize. Thus homeopathy correctly falls into the category of magic. And quackery.

#World Homeopathy Awareness Week #James Randi #homeopathy #homeopath #fake medicine #medicine #alternative medicine #Homeopathy Awareness Week #magical thinking #religion is a mental illness #Youtube

[mmkin]

fuck Sebi and fuck his fanbase

Ever since I came across a review for one of these Dr. Sebi “books” back in 2020 in my Goodreads community feed, I have come to loathe the name Sebi, and everything that this man stands (stood) for.

Sebi (real name Alfredo Bowman) was never a doctor - he had no license to practice medicine, and his false claims (curing herpes, saying that HIV did not cause AIDS, his diet would cure diabetes, etc) landed him in legal trouble multiple times. The medical community considered Sebi a quack, as he had never completed any formal medical training. It's all a fucking scam to take advantage of people who are desperate for a solution to their herpes, cancer, diabetes. etc etc.

More info on Sebi's quackery...

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/quackery/dr-sebi-what-do-we-make-him

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/327399#who-is-dr-sebi

There is no denying that a plant-based diet in general can improve one's health, but there is no benefit to Sebi's particular diet or his theories. I curse the day that Alfredo Bowman came into this world, because of the clusterfuck of charlatans and shills that are now using his name to try to sell these garbage books and nonsensical "herpes/AIDS/cancer/diabetes cure" diets, and the accounts and sockpuppets created to spam these books with adverts for other fake doctors and their fake cures.

Seriously, the Sebi fanbase can go fuck itself.

#charlatan #fuck you #dr sebi #sebi #sebi sucks #lies #bullshit #medical quackery #this shit can kill you #sebi is stupid #fuck sebi #medical malpractice #fake medicine #fake remedies #fake cure #alfredo bowman

[quixoticclown]

'Natural remedies to boost your immune system ahead of the Covid shot'

#irish comedy #actually autistic #covid isn't over #covid #covid vax #covid vaccine #covid jab #fake medicine #alternative medicine #pandemic #don draper #mad men

[triangle-of-death]

#fake medicine #fake food #brainwashing #surveillance #artists on tumblr #art

[jdyf333]

info about fake medicine often kept from public by Davivid Rose Via Flickr: WARNING: "Counterfeit drugs obtained during law enforcement seizures undergo comprehensive confirmatory toxicology testing. Results are generally not shared with the public." ---from a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Fake medicines are being sold on the street and the police are not telling the public what potentially toxic substances are in the fake medicines. WTF? Please click here to read my "autobiography": thewordsofjdyf333.blogspot.com/ And my Flicker "profile" page may be viewed by clicking on this link: www.flickr.com/people/jdyf333/ My telephone number is: 510-260-9695

#JAMA #Journal of the American Medical Association #fake medicine #counterfeit tablets #public NOT informed #WARNING #flickr

[fnrrfygmschnish]

Found some drawings of goofy product packaging in a batch of 2017 scans that I never posted anywhere.

"Robot-Tussin" = cough medicine for robots. Contains oil, to... coat a sore (rusty?) metal throat, I guess?

"Instant Diarrhea." Exactly what it sounds like. The label says "makes ya poop in under 5 minutes."

"DUZNUTIN." The rest of the label reads "100% pure all-natural snake oil, from 12 species of North African snakes." The fact that the name sounds like "does nothin'" should be a hint but people keep buying it anyway.

"Thug-B-Gone," with a label describing it as "extra-strength pepper spray with chlorine." With CHLORINE! That's probably not legal.

And of course, a can of mace. Literally.

#drawings #pencil #silly #packaging #logos #logo design #can of mace #mace #fake medicine

[naomiknight-17]

I was talking to someone who I shan't name recently, who has a really horrible tooth ache. Like, missing work because it's so debilitating

And I was like, you've got to go to the dentist

"But I just moved and my old dentist is 2 hours away and it's so hard to find a new dentist. I've just been using advil and clove oil and salt rinses"

...

GO TO THE DENTIST

SALTWATER AND CLOVE OIL WON'T FIX THIS YOU NEED A FUCKING ROOT CANAL

#i had to stay calm in the conversation but holy shit #holy shit go to the dentist #that crap is not gonna heal you and you are risking infection and worse holy shit holy shit #if they haven't been to the dentist by next week i will fucking look up a dentist in their area and make an appt myself #whoever told this person to use essential oil to cure a toothache... i am gonna wring their neck #mod post #fake medicine

[thequivernews]

Nabakishore Das: Duplicate Medicine Business Rise in Health Minister Nabakishore Das District! | THE Quiver

#Odisha #fake medicine #Nabakishoredas #THEQuiver

[brokenribs]

Yall ever read about the guy who invented chiropracty cause it is wild

#chiropractic #quack #medical malpractice #spiritualism #weird #bizarre #fake medicine #please just see a masseuse

[mindblowingscience]

Buying counterfeit painkillers in the United States has never been more dangerous. In Rhode Island, the ongoing opioid epidemic has become a "tremendous public health crisis". It ranks among the top ten states in the nation for drug overdoses. Now, epidemiologists at Brown University have found initial evidence that many of the state's accidental overdoses may be caused by contaminated pills. The results are not yet peer-reviewed, but they indicate a deeply concerning continuation of America's opioid emergency.

Continue Reading.

#Science #Medicine #Epidemiology #Drugs #Painkillers #Fake Painkillers #Fentanyl #Overdose #Rhode Island #USA #United States of America

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

During World Homeopathy Awareness Week, be aware that homeopathy is pseudoscientiifc fake medicine.

It was concocted before any knowledge of viruses or bacteria, and relies upon magical thinking about water having a "memory" of what has been put into it once that substance has been completely diluted out.

#homeopathy #homeopathic medicine #homeopathy is fraud #pseudoscience #fake medicine #World Homeopathy Awareness Week #Homeopathy Awareness Week #religion is a mental illness

[furiousgoldfish]

I finally caved in and started using pain medicine to deal with the pain. This was a very hard thing for me to do, because for the most of my life, I believed that I both didn't deserve any medicine, and that it was bad for me.

Thinking back, my family used a lot of medicine daily, but when I was sick, I was told to 'work through it' or that my immune system had to be strong enough to take it. I wasn't even taken to the doctor unless there was a culmination of multiple issues at once. Even when taken to the doctor, I've been told over and over what a burden I was, how much of their time I was wasting, and how I got sick on purpose.

I became convinced that if I wanted to be healthy, I would bear any sickness without the help of doctors or medicine. This conviction became so strong that if I was forced to take any medicine, I would have a volatile reaction, start having a complete breakdown or immediately get sicker. I started believing that my body is resistant to medicine and breaks down if any is introduced. It was more likely that I was hanging onto my belief that I had to be 'strong enough to survive anything without medicine' so much, that if this got violated, I would psychologically break down and believe myself weak and broken permanently.

As an adult, I would take medicine only when pain was such high level it was unbearable and pushing me into suicidal thoughts. And lately, I've been having lots of that, pain so severe it would paralyze me completely, I wouldn't be able to speak or think, I would even end up making noises, which, I was trained not to do, even when tortured. There was an instance where I was in so much pain I couldn't control my hands enough to take medicine, and found myself having to ask someone else to give it to me - which was horrifying to me. And I finally realized, I can't wait that long. I have to take the medicine before it gets to such extreme levels.

So, I am slowly letting go of my ideas that medicine will make me weak or mess with my immune system. I'm looking up what medicine does to the body and for the first time, seeing realistically what the risks are, what is happening inside of me if I take any, what are the possible side-effects, what will it truly do to my immune system. The entire process is extremely scary, because I built so much of my identity on that perceived toughness and 'medicine is bad' mindset. Just casually learning that I've been wrong about everything for all of my life is a lot to swallow. But I can't live like this anymore. I can't stand any more of the pain. Even if medicine will give me some mild side effects, or is a bit tough on my stomach, taking it responsibly will not give me any permanent damage. It will keep me alive through the pain and make it survivable. I can't live in an amount of pain that is making me suicidal.

#tw mention of suicidal thoughts #tw suicidal thoughts #thoughts of medicine #child abuse and medicine #deconstructing fake ideas about medicine #learning facts where there was only fearmongering #abusive family #child abuse #medical neglect

[bonefall]

mmm would it be possible for Mistystar and Leopardstar to fight/met during the BOTTE? or was Leopard already fed up with Tigerstar, his batshit insane plans and her status reduced to 'Tiger's another lackey' (like Darkstripe and many others) to really care about revenge? if she ever thought about it, that is.. im assuming she would be pretty pissed about being killed (there was a post about Mistyfoot first trying to poison her and Leopard realized it and instead decided to take her on a solo patrol to.. deal with a rogue i think? and then Misty gave her a rock appointment) and might had thought about making Mistystar pay, but it's been soooo long before BOTTE that she might had.. moved on? or just decided she had better things to do, not sure.

I have a BIG rule for the BOTTE, an unmoveable object, which I will abide by like a solemn vow;

NO spirit will be killed by the same cat twice.

I already changed it so Yellowfang doesn't get Brokenstar (he's not even present) and Brambleclaw doesn't get Hawkfrost, so I certainly wouldn't have Mistystar do it to Leopardstar!

I have some ideas but first; context.

The Killing of Leopardstar

Mistyfoot was sloppy.

Leopardstar recognized the way that Mistyfoot had poisoned her food, because she'd done the same thing to Crookedstar before her. Not enough to make it quick, just enough to weaken.

The emotion that licks at her is frustration.

Is this what her life has come to? Dramatic irony? Is this some kind of cosmic joke? To die just like her predecessor, wasting away for a few seasons in the darkness of this musty den, before solemn mourning and empty platitudes from her underhanded murderer.

What should she even do about this? Reveal Mistyfoot in front of everyone, exile her, she plots against her from the safety of another Clan, some kind of rebellion, rah rah rah we just dealt with this.

It's boring. It's so boring it's offensive. This will be the state of RiverClan forever, deputies poisoning leaders and taking power quietly until the end of days. No honor, no nobility, just treachery until the sky dries up and its rich blue becomes a crackled pale-brown.

If she is to die, she will not go out in the slow and painful way she killed crookedstar without a fight.

So she smacks the limp fish aside and brushes past Mistyfoot with a snarl, not even caring enough to drink in the way her traitorous deputy's ears flushed pale, knowing she'd been caught.

Leopardstar calls for a rushed meeting, telling them all that there's actually 40 - 50 feral rogues on the border right now and she saw them all last night or something, so she's taking Mistyfoot to go confront them right now. Don't follow us.

(Something that the more astute members of the Clan immediately recognize as Leopardstar setting up cover for a death match, including Misty's brother Swansong. She snaps at him when he runs to stop her, Don't Follow.)

Once they're a fair distance away, at the southern delta that divides WindClan and RiverClan, where the cliffs will hide them and the wet stones will not catch the scent (and where Reedwhisker will die, someday), Leopardstar lays it out.

No more tricks. No more schemes. If one of them is to die, it will be with honor.

"You want my lives?"

(Boss music fades in. Misty sees the health bar appear lmao)

"Come and take them."

After she came and took them

Leopardstar is kind of obsessed with the final battle of her life. That fight was everything she hoped for, except that she didn't win.

She wants it again, and she will triumph this time.

Hawkfrost is easily able to twist it into, "You lost only because StarClan shone upon her with that stone. It wasn't real skill. Join our cause and we can get you that rematch, we will defeat Mistystar, win back RiverClan, and dethrone the Stars!" But at the end of the day, it's an excuse.

Same sort of excuse Leopardstar came up with when she believed she wanted an honorable battle, rejecting the guilt and fear that clawed at her to think about dying the way Crookedstar did.

She does this a lot. Dodging feelings of remorse or regret by substituting power fantasies, avoiding any hard lessons. She says she wants revenge, but what she's actually doing is avoiding taking an L. Shame is a vagrant in Leopardstar's heart; she will never let it stay for long.

But...

That's really hard to do when Tigerstar is actively using her and speaking over her in every interaction. Being here, in the Dark Forest, taking the SAME advice she once groomed into Hawkfrost to only look at the positives of Tigerstar's legacy and ignore atrocities, is embarassing.

It's HUMILIATING.

She had her starshine BASHED out of her with a rock and went to the hell she'd been downplaying since she "regrettably" tore down the Bonehill. Being Tigerstar's stooge. Reducing the proud, ferocious leader of RiverClan into a goon.

Towards the end, she will have a scene with Hawkfrost, proud warriors that they are as mentor and apprentice, and vaguely address this. As far as Leopardstar's ego will allow, of course... the shame of it.

It's an important moment, because it's as much about Leopardstar and Hawkfrost as it is about Hawkfrost and Ivypool.

Leopard is too set in her ways to change, even if she is capable of brief glimpses of self-reflection, of which this is one. Hawkfrost, however, is seeing his mentor and himself in a different light. How she'll let herself be humiliated over and over as long as she can cling to her ego... and how by doing Tigerstar's diplomacy work, Hawkfrost is doing the same.

And he's dragged his OWN apprentice into it, too. She accidentally double-killed her friend, Antpelt, but he killed him more by bringing all of these trainees here to begin with. How Ivypool gets pitted against Tigerheart because TigerSTAR is playing mind games, how it's destroying her bond with her sister, how much fun and joy in the Dark Forest he's missing out on by not giving the afterLIFE a chance...

How much he's thrown away for this, before and after his death.

I'm not sure yet if it's the LAST stop before the BOTTE, but it's close to the end of Hawkfrost's redemption arc. Recognition of self through the other. He is part of a cycle he has a choice to break.

But anyway... back to Leopardstar.

She wants to fight Mistystar, but I don't think I'll let her have that satisfaction. She has already gotten nearly everything she ever asked for and can't even acknowledge that she did.

I think it's most fitting for SWANSONG to finally get what he craves; a chance to take a burden off his sister.

Leopardstar allowed TigerClan to STRIP his brotherhood from her because they don't share blood. Forced him to pretend like Rippleclaw meant anything to him, as if Oakheart hadn't been his proud baba as long as he could remember. Stonefur, Mistyfoot, and Swansong are the kits of Graypool; and he's not gonna let this golden FART ignore that ever again.

So my idea is that when Leopardstar meets Mistyfoot in the Second Wave of the BOTTE, she pounces onto her for her rematch, but Swansong BURSTS out of the crowd in response and rips her off, allowing Mistystar to go back to defending their Clanmates

"I don't want YOU," Leopardstar spits, "My battle is with Mistystar!"

"Tough titfeathers! It's MY turn to get a hit in for Stonefur!" He bristles with equal parts fury and excitement, lunging towards a fight he's dreamed of for years.

Still subject to change, though! And I'm not sure if Swansong dies here, or in the 3rd Wave, or if maybe he succumbs to injuries after the BOTTE is over.

It would also be fitting if he got a whack on Mapleshade though... since Maple doesn't even consider him Applekin and won't curse him. It would be neat for him to get angry about that lmao. "What do you MEAN my siblings are haunted by a demon? But NOT ME?? What ELSE am I getting left out of???"

EDIT: I'm currently planning to kill him in the 2nd Wave

#better bones au #BOTTE #BB!Leopardstar #BB!Mistystar #BB!Swansong #BB!Hawkfrost #BB!OOTS #I say this about a lot of BB characters (because I love this project) but man I really like Swansong #Context btw because he hasn't come up in a while: Swan is the adopted brother of Stone and Misty. His biosibs were faders. #Beloved golden retriever coming up for his fake ear medicine to suffer as Part Of The Family #Oak was only going to ask Gray to suckle Misty and Stone for him but then they were like #''Hey wait. Ripple was only an honor sire anyway. This is super convenient wanna parent together?'' #And BB!Oak is such a DUDE he was like ''Yooooo ABSOLUTELY I'd LOVE another baby with a friend!!'' #Oak cannot walk 5 foxlengths without making a friend. He's just like that. #Sqweezy type grindset #They never really told the kits about Ripple because he wasn't relevant + Queen’s Rights anyway #But everyone else knew Ripple was Swan's biodad because he's the river's reflection of him. and the other two are literally blue. #The three of them were the last to know. #But Swansong is great because he's such a happy kind of angry when it comes to defending his family #He's like ''We have to hide a body? Girlie SAY NO MORE I have already compiled a list of top 10 places they'll never look'' #''No we dont need to hide the body..'' ''Ah. Well. Ok that's fine too. Anyway. What is our cover story let's get the details straight'' #She couldn't make him deputy because he's too aggressive and supportive lmao #He's actually a lot like a meaner and smarter Oak. He was super close to their dad. #Also he's the mate of Moss instead of Frog because I put it to a vote and we collectively said so #Fixing a minor inconsistency where Moss has more kits after Frog is supposed to be dead #Also Frog was a sleaze where Swankit from the Missing Kits was a blank slate. #Slaps the roof of the RiverClan this bad boy can fit so many blorbos in it #Between Hawk and Leopard and the entire Applekin family I really adore it

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom You're allowed to have good days and bad days within your health conditions, or even good hours and bad hours all in one day. Your condition hasn't disappeared when you're in a good moment and you're not faking it when it's at its worst. I believe you. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon 4:55 PM · Apr 18, 2024

#star trek #doctor crusher #star trek the next generation #star trek memes #star trek tng #kindness #support #care #compassion #health care #healthcare #medicine #chronic fatigue #chronic illness #chronic pain #disability #it's not in your head #you aren't faking it #i believe you #spoons #spoonies

[choco-myth]

The Vocaloid Billboard Battle

Round 1, Match 8

This is Fake Meme, a.k.a. Uso Meme, by Pinocchio-P, featuring Hatsune Miku, VS. Medicine, a.k.a. Igaku, by Haraguchi Sasuke, featuring Kasane Teto!

Please listen to both songs before voting!

#hatsune miku #miku hatsune #kasane teto #teto kasane #fake meme #uso meme #igaku #medicine #pinocchiop #haraguchi sasuke #vocaloid #utauloid #vocal synth #vocaloid tournament #polls #battlehall of legend #Youtube

[fake-destiel-news]

OK LET ME EXPLAIN

-> Apparently pineapple produces something called bromelhydric acid when it is cooked.

-> Bromelhydric acid is commonly used to clean cars engines from the inside because it can’t really burn and dissolves oil very fast, so it’s perfect for that. For some reason there hasn’t been any concern about ingesting it before.

-> Now it’s finally been studied in regards to human health and found to be a GIANT contributor to the development of gastric and oesophageal cancer.

-> when you eat pineapple pizza you ingest more than double the amount of bromelhydric acid that has been shown to cause the mutation of cells in your digestion system.

Here and Here are some articles about it

#pineapple #Pizza #pineapple on pizza #science #Food #Pizza Hawaii #medicine #fruit #fake-destiel-news #destiel meme #news #meme #unreality #this is fake news #truth: bromelhydric acid doesn’t exist and apparently cooked pineapple is actually healthier than raw