http://www.cracked.com/funny-4180-diet-products/
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"#5. Health: How to Stop Throwing Your Money Away on Snake Oil Go to the drug aisle in your grocery store. In between the pills and the vitamins will be a huge shelf full of herbal supplements that promise to do everything from helping you lose weight to easing joint pain to making your brain work better. And it's all bullshit. All of it. Worse, it's bullshit that we spend $34 billion a year on, almost a third as much as we spend on prescription drugs that actually do something. Just to be clear: Scientists have spent billions in government money carefully testing the effectiveness of this stuff. Their results? No, echinacea can't cure your cold. Gingko doesn't do anything for your brain, glucosamine and chondroitin won't fix your arthritis. Hoodia gordonii won't help you lose weight. If it were good for you, it probably wouldn't be covered in horrible spikes. Don't get us wrong; we completely realize that lots of the drugs we have now were once naturally occurring in plants and that it is therefore possible that out there, somewhere, is a leaf yet undiscovered by science that will cure your diabetes. But if so, these jerkoffs in the grocery aisle aren't going to be the ones who find it. They're scam artists. They're so sure their supplements don't do anything they don't do any actual quality control to track how much of the supplement is in each pill. They just throw a little bit in there and shrug. Aren't they worried about people accidentally overdosing? No, they're not. They know you can't overdose on a placebo. All they're doing is "curing" ailments that either naturally go away on their own (colds, joint pain) so you wind up falsely attributing the relief to the supplement, or they're claiming to cure conditions that are hard to quantify (see supplements for "alertness" or "stress relief"). Snake oil salesmen have been getting away with that technique for thousands of generations. Students, we're counting on you to make sure that ours is the last. Chapters Include: I. Pharmaceutical Companies Are Dicks, But at Least They Use Scientists; II. Why Hippies Have Never Discovered a Single Disease Cure; III. "Homeopathic" is Another Word for Voodoo Bullshit; IV. Just Go See a Doctor You Big Baby."

http://www.cracked.com/article_18611_the-10-most-important-things-they-didnt-teach-you-in-school.html

bonus: http://www.johndiesattheend.com/updates/?p=1071

7/9/2010 11:24:59 PM

Why did you post this shit? So wrong it's not even worth replying to.

7/10/2010 2:53:31 PM

are you a fan of herbal remedies

7/10/2010 3:46:28 PM

Who are you and why do you keep making shitty threads

7/10/2010 4:43:57 PM

^^ Shut the fuck up and go away, shit stain.

7/10/2010 6:03:09 PM

^^a former CampusBlender user who doesn't think his own threads are shitty

7/10/2010 8:16:56 PM

I thought

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"Sex : MF"

7/10/2010 9:05:34 PM

you must have gotten that idea from either the fact that my name looks a lot like that lazy-ass lewoods

or that I made a post admitting I first thought lewoods was a guy because of how lazy she is about her education

7/10/2010 9:20:29 PM

wrong section, this should have been in the lounge

i see the trolls have already made it here unfortunately

7/17/2010 8:52:11 PM

I know, I know, troll thread, but :

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" If it were good for you, it probably wouldn't be covered in horrible spikes. "

is wrong. A great many of the plants that have spiked or hairy defenses have them for a particular reason, that reason being they are good eating. If they were not tasty, they wouldn't need the spikes.

7/19/2010 11:38:06 AM

Holy shit, lewoods is a moonbat.

7/19/2010 12:01:53 PM

I hear she's a kevin trudeau fan.

7/19/2010 12:59:00 PM

Big Pharma's out to get me! That's why I only take herbal supplements.





Wait, what company produces my ginko?

7/20/2010 10:50:43 AM

This isn't a troll thread, and I've finally bothered to get a short URL for that image so it won't break:

7/21/2010 7:24:50 AM