Consider Death

It looks like after the Tony Nicklinson case the government might actually take a look at those ‘right to die’ issues again. In the least, the UK’s newly appointed health minister had said that it’s ridiculous that people have to go abroad to be able to kill themselves, which is true. She also said she wasn’t for euthanasia however, which is confusing. Are we not talking about the same issue here? Isn’t a natural ally of the right to end one’s life a way for people to be able to seek assistance to end their life humanely?

Perhaps I misunderstood, there’s usually someone who thinks I have with any post I do in any case. I really hope that I have, and that euthanasia will be recognized as something humane. I really hope that one day people will see putting people out of their misery as a good deed rather than equivalent to murder.

Although I suppose the real difference between this case and euthanasia in general is that people who go to places like Dignitas sometimes are able to make a noose, cut their throat etc.

But a lot of people don’t want to die that way, they want it to be as painless and peaceful as possible.

Is that not understandable?

Shouldn’t this be allowed too?

I’ve heard people say that this could lead to people murdering under the guise of euthanasia but really, that argument at least is as fallacious as they come. Just because something is not allowed doesn’t mean that the worst possible consequence of that idea is likely to unfold.

Ugh, maybe I’m crazy, but I think that the fact that this is illegal is stupid as all hell.

The Arrogance of Ignorance

Assuming that you can see the video above me, you may recognise the man doing the terrible rapping in this song, and giving off a message that, unfortunately, people are swallowing up like the pills he despises.

Mike Adams’ youtube has thousands of subscribers, and I suspect his website (natural news) has many more regular viewers.

I find it hard to believe sometimes that people can watch this video and not see that this is the very definition of fear-mongering, there’s really no nice way of saying it. The man spreads medical lies to the masses and makes a ton of money off of it, all in the name of battling the very things that he’s doing, using health claims for monetary gain and lying about drug efficacy, and yet he’s the true culprit!

I am honestly shocked that this guy’s still allowed to run a website. Surely this stuff is more dangerous than anything the pirate bay or megaupload could do. So why are people attacking those sites, sites which allow people easier access to different kinds of media that they may not be able to access otherwise (whether because of money or cable packages), and leaving this guy alone?

I object completely to policing the internet, but if you’re going to be doing it, then go after the people who are actually dangerous to the public, not the people who are trying to help them out.

The fact that someone like Mike Adams can call the whole field of psychiatry, never mind vaccines, a scam, is a testament to the spread of misinformation in our society and the arrogance of ignorance.

In the past people were locked up and put away because they couldn’t control their urges; that was egrigious.

But there are many people whose mental disorders are so disruptive to their living in a society without their problems that they need certain drugs to function. Believe it or not, sometimes, psychiatric medication makes peoples’ lives easier!

Health foods do not solve the problem.

 

Good News/Bad News: Both Sexes to Live Long and Prosper… also One Direction suck

Welcome to this week’s… sorry, I mean last week’s good news/bad news, where I find news stories that both make me grin like a blissful idiot and make me want to shove my face into a wood chipper until my scowl emerges from the other end, bloody, covered in wood chippings and flung into a million little, fleshy pieces.

First, we’ve got some good news, news which may mean that equality is coming in a completely different way than we usually think of it when we talk like that. Unfortunately this doesn’t mean that women are going to be paid the same as men, it doesn’t mean that gays can now marry anywhere and everywhere and it doesn’t mean that there aren’t still policemen out to capture young, black people.

No, as much as all of those things would be nice we’ve got a different flavour of good news and that is that by 2030, thanks to advantages in medicine and healthcare, men may statistically come to live as long as women.

Yeah, that’s right ladies, now we are one step closer to gaining immortality!

Take a long look people of the republic of internet, because this could be awesome.

One of the proposed reasons for where the graph of life expectancy is heading is a drop in the number of male smokers, something which for some of us may be apparent from the people we know, young and old, and for some a source of confusion, as smoking is still the official activity of the young and tenacious.

The bad news here is incredibly different, and while I apologise wholeheartedly for the disparity, the utter unrelatedness, the nonconnecteditude of these two items…

I really hate One Direction, and apparently I should be a little cynical about some of their fans too.

Take a look here and see what I mean.

So as much as I despise gossip stories, I’m reporting this for the sheer extremity of 1D fans’ reactions to some lady on twitter, who just happened to be lip buddies with the ugliest member of the band.

I suppose if nothing else comes of this, at least after the things she’s been called she might no longer know what makes her beautiful anymore, and as we all know, that is the key to attractiveness in the eyes of the musical monstrosity that is One Direction.

Anyway, for some reason, even though the guy’s still under concerns about possibly having a sexually transmitted disease, fans called the woman a ‘fucking bitch’ and a ‘prostitute’.

Perhaps they should calm down and realise that if they threw a brick at their boyfriends’ faces; they’d probably look like Harry from One Direction as well.

Baby, Baby, Baby, Yo(ga)

Forget about Kony for a second and take a look at this madness, a practice that I’m almost tempted to say there are no words for, and one that comes from the makers of repeatedly dunking infants in water.

Yes, this is baby yoga, where you take a baby, swing it around and around, upside down, back to front, this way and that while the infant literally screams in agony, and yes, this is being touted as something healthy for children and in fact the woman featured in this video is rather hoping that parents across the world will treat their baby like a lasso, despite the cries of protest from the baby they are putting in harm’s way for potentially fatal injuries, because some health guru told them it was a good idea.

Take a look and try not to cringe.

I’m hoping here that you haven’t seen this already because seeing something like that twice must be pretty difficult to stomach and just thinking about it is causing fury to flush from my fingernails like some sort of angry keratin-based dam.

Look parents, it’s great that you want to protect your child and you should try and find the best things out there to help them lead a comfortable and healthy lifestyle. But despite what your baby yoga specialists might tell you, much more healthy than getting a fake doctor to crack your baby’s barely developed spinal cord or throwing them around like some sort of combo rag doll/stretch Armstrong is a little scepticism.

Please, think about how this could possibly help your child, and unless you think increasing the risk of brain damage in your baby is helping I think you’ll end up reaching the safe conclusion.

And just to make this clear, just because someone says something is healthy, does not mean it is.

People can lie.

People can be fooled.

People can fool themselves.

People can lie to themselves.

And people can, apparently, ignore the desperate screams of a child while they swing them by one hand over their shoulders like Indiana Jones’ whip.

Mr. Adams And His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

So it’s been a while since I ripped on Mike Adams.

For those of you who don’t remember/haven’t read any of my posts on Mike Adams, there are quite a few of them and they are laced with oodles of profanity due almost entirely to the subject matter.

This is not a nice man.

However, the reason I wanted to mention him briefly today is because youtube is now trying to recommend his channel to me.

Now, I’ve been on this man’s channel and as if he didn’t get enough hatred from me due to his anti-vaccination, anti-conventional medicine and pro anything ridiculous stance on the world, and as if he didn’t get enough hatred from me for having thousands of followers who hang onto his every word (all of which are one hundred percent wrong) who blindly follow him under the guise of thinking for themselves (ironic considering any research into any of his topics would show him to be completely false, he should really be phrasing it as ‘let me think for you’) he’s also a terrible rapper.

Seriously you don’t want to see a rapper called ‘the health ranger’, but the fact that he’s so demonstrably wrong about health-related issues the name in itself is ironic enough to earn him a smirk until you realise the damage he is potentially doing to herd immunity and people’s trust in methods of medicine that have actually been proven to work.

That’s what a health ranger should do though no?

Encouraging persisting illness and the re-emergence of vaccine preventable diseases?

What a swell guy.

Anyway, I was going to recommend going onto his videos and giving them all thumbs downs, but then I remembered that doing that would be giving him views and adsense money, so on second thoughts, don’t even look at his medallion-earning channel, just try and mention him and the word prick in the same sentence in many places on the internet.

I want to see Mike Adams is a prick as the result google recommends as you type his name in.

Can we do that?

Placebo Industries

I think we collectively should open an alternative medicine chain simply entitled ‘placebo industries’, is that not just perfect?

Obviously there would be no pretence, we’d let people know the shit we were selling didn’t work and then we’d be able to wave our hands around, jab them with needles etc. to our hearts’ content while they attempt to convince themselves that we were just lying with our disclaimer and that we don’t know that we can essentially do magic.

And that my friends is how you run your very own fraudulent business that isn’t fraudulent, simple enough really.

But to be honest, eyeing up our competition I can suddenly see that they’re not even trying to tell people that they’re unproven, in fact, they’re rubbing the false efficacy of their products in peoples’ faces, should these consumers not look up what they’re about to dive arse first into?

Apparently not, they’re walking away with empty wallets and shifted chakras but that infection’s still there and it’s only a matter of time before it catches up again and they’re forced to go to the real doctors who they openly express their disdain for, forgetting that in this country we actually have free medical care, whereas they just paid premium costs for utter bollocks.

So who’s the idiot here? Well we are for calling ourselves placebo industries, surely we would make much more money if we lied to the public from the get go like our competition seem to be doing, is this not the way forward? Well, it doesn’t seem very ethical but the world of business is harsh and if you want to make money you’ve got to stamp on as many balls as possible right? I mean by the time Alan Sugar got to his position the soles of his shoes were positively covered in semen were they not?

So we change our name and our company rises to the top, people write the truth about thus and we shut them up.

What better way to quell the righteous protesters by threatening a lawsuit they can’t afford to pay? It’s their fault for not thinking of this first after all, and the victims of our thoughtless crime surely know what they’re getting themselves into in all fairness do they not?

No.

Down with placebo industry.

Every time your wallet is emptied for the sake of some unproven pile of steaming horseshit, well, a kitten dies.

Bullshit? In my town?

And so where there used to be a hair salon, there is now this.

A new shop opened up in my area called ‘optimum health’, from the name you can already tell where this is going, but rest assured this is not based on just one form of bullshit. No, they’ve managed to drop the pretense that one of their therapies actually works and just stuck a load of bullshit in there together, conflicting theories hold hands, all different forms of crap give each other hugs in the sewage dump that is the optimum health shop/spa/whatever they want to call it, I didn’t go inside, although maybe something to do next time I want to have an argument with a total stranger.

Just some of the things they have listed are below, please do not alert me to the fact that you believe in one of these things, that’s fine, you reserve the right to believe whatever you like but I have a problem with these things being listed as healthy when they’re placebo or less.

-hypnotherapy

-iridology

-homeopathy

-kinesiology

-reflexology

-reiki

-chiropractic

This is just a short selection from what a quick photo of the banner caught, there are many more and they are all being promoted under one roof.

Remember people, just because it has a fancy name and it’s been around for a long time doesn’t mean it works or is run by people who know what they’re talking about.

People are going to walk past this however, and just because it says optimum health on the sign in big letters they’re going to buy in to absolutely everything the men and women inside have to say.

THINK FOR YOURSELVES

that’s my message, take a hint people of the world, question everything.