If “alternative medicine” worked, it would just be called “medicine“.
Im all on the "listen to the medical experts" train.
There are however some medicines and treatments that legitimately started as "alternative".
A lot of it is horseshit though.
Also modern medicine isn't infallible(nor the people that practice it).
Statistically though, it's fucking high magic compared to most internet sourced diagnoses.
Also modern medicine isn’t infallible(nor the people that practice it).
Have friends in the medical field, a lot of time they are just sort of trying shit and then are happy it worked.
Medical science is just that, medicine that follows the scientific method. (Or at least it's supposed to).
The scientific method is basically testing guesses (sometimes educated ones) and seeing what happens.
There's a whole lot of structure and guidelines, but testing guesses(hypotheses) is where it's at mostly.
The current state of any science is usually "the best theory we have right now, given the data and resources available to us"
Some people hear that and think "look, they're just guessing, why should I listen to them?" and thats absolutely valid.
Where that falls down is that they then go on to assume all guesses are equal and ignore the time and resources that went in to that current scientific best guess.
Is it always correct? no, is it more likely to be beneficial than a random social media post by an influencer with no medical expertise? Generally yes.
The people who "guess" are guessing way down the decision tree, not like hmm is this cancer or a flu?
They also are highly trained, in a field that is centuries old.
sort of trying shit and then are happy it worked
Most professions could be described like this, but when doctors are "trying shit" it is backed up by many years of training and education, and their behavior is scrutinised by professional bodies and so on.
When your local quack is "trying shit" it's just based on the vibe.
The difference between medicine and "alternative medicine" is proof of effectiveness. If something provably works it's medicine.
"Alternative medicine" is too broad a term to be helpful.
George Carlin from the grave: By calling it an 'alternative' you are directly implying that it is not the actual thing.
I've actually met a lot of people who know a lot about what happened to him. Theres an entire industry and field of academics dedicated solely to it and places of business in pretty much every town across the nation for it.
They're called Doctors.
WOAH WOAH WOAH careful with those emotions, buddy, they asked for objective understanding! Don't you know that means rejecting the expertise of the people who spent their entire lives studying the human body and what ails it; and believing unquestioningly the medical advice of the Oompa Loompa rapist pedophile in chief (and his pal with brain worms)?
Okay Sir please calm down, we all know we can't trust those "Doctors" and their "Medical Degrees". It's just hokus pokus, it's not like there's been decades upon decades of scientific testing and proving! You probably believe we landed on the moon too HAH! Space ain't even real, like how would they even breath if there's no air? #checkmate
$500 bottle of ivermectin!?!?!
Somehow, that's the worst part of this to me -- somebody got hugely ripped off. I regularly need to buy ivermectin for actual horses, and it's $10-$15 for a horse-sized dose. And this dumb motherfucker spent $500 on a single bottle?
I know 4 people, who use the horse version. Because they raise cattle they can get it and they use it for themselves. One of them used to help his cancer treatment.
That's 4 to many.
So you actually want to die
I'm surprised you KNOW four people rather than very specifically KNEW, past tense, four people...
Because they raise cattle they can get it
Anybody can get it.
Walk into a Tractor Supply, North 40, or any animal feed/supply store, and you can pick some up right off the shelf.
For a while there, curing covid mania, cashiers were actually asking people for a picture of their livestock before they'd sell it to you, but even then you could have just shown them any picture of any horse and that would have been enough.
The text on this post is fabricated, and the image in unrelated to the fabricated story. >.>
The amount of people taking antiworm medicine who support a worm brained health guru is too high.
RFKjr is not worm brained!
The brain worm died from starvation!
I thought that they would be the target demographic for a deworming medicine companies.
Mebendazole and ivermectin combined to 275mg? The typical ivermectin dose alone is .2mg/kg, so a 180lb/81.5kg person would only take 16-ish mg. So this person took way more ivermectin than needed for a parasitic infection (and stupid for taking it without one). Mebebdazole is 100mg/x2 a day, so this is more than double the dose for a single recommended pill.
Just in case anyone wants to know how much not to take.
But what if they had 17 parasitic infections to remove?
i think ever since covid ivermectin has become a magical cureall for idiots, and the more the betterer as far as the dosage goes.
This dude knows his horse dewormer...
It's also a human dewormer, or many other kinds of parasite. At proper dosage it's generally a very safe drug. Two things.
Depending on his weight that could be quite a high dose of ivermectin (the normal dose is 0.2mg/kg) but that seems like an extreme reaction.
I see four possibilities:
Or the company who sold it sold fake or cut drugs.
He also has mebendezol
mebendezol
Never heard of it so probably not a great recreational drug. Oooh Wikipedia confirms
Mebendazole is a highly effective, broad-spectrum antihelmintic indicated for the treatment of nematode infestations
Mebendazole sometimes causes diarrhea, abdominal pain, and elevated liver enzymes. In rare cases, it has been associated with a dangerously low white blood cell count, low platelet count, and hair loss,[14][15] with a risk of agranulocytosis in rare cases.
Please no emotions as I am a looksmaxxing robot that only cares about looking great and being confused why women don't like me
Explanation: You're a gullible idiot. Don't worry, I'll be sure and tell everyone at your funeral.
Please, no emotions.
Is "lol" an emotion?
"Please don't point out that I made a huge mistake and should have known better"
One less voter for magastan I hope
I don't get it.
This guy is taking medical advice from conspiracy theorists for COVID. he ODed on dewormer meds and is posting from.the inside of the ambulance
See, I'm not a native speaker, so I thought a "wellness company" was something like a hospital.
It's a private company in the "health and wellness" industry. Basically modern day snake oil salesmen that convince vulnerable (or stupid) people that "big pharma" is evil and giving you cancer or whatever, while the mystery pill they're peddling will cure anything that ails you. It typically comes with a hefty price tag, lots of sales pressure, and zero evidence to back it up.
Bad news, OOP — killing yourself will give you more worms, not fewer.
And these people get to vote....
I have a theory sir: you are an idiot!
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