I guess I missed it - what the hell is CAM? And why would any rational person give a Flying Fickle of Fate about it?
They focus on marketing and villifying legitimate medicine.
Every woman I know in my area (I can't say "every woman I know" since I know me and a few other skeptical women who don't live in my area) is into SCAM because of magazines, news articles, and other SCAM marketing. Their mantra is that what THEY offer are "all natural", safe, non-chemical, non-toxic, effective, and therefore TOTALLY BETTER for you and won't poison you to death. When I took my medical office admin courses my teacher drilled it all into our heads how nasty doctors are and how they are only driven to profit by causing only more suffering, while blood readers, chiros, homeopathy, etc. were warm and fuzzy and only had your best interests in mind and would be the only way to be drug free and totally healthy.
Every time I start to make a new friend they start going on about their naturopath and woo woo junk like their magnetic bracelets, and I am left trying to change the subject. But, if you don't join em in their embracement of woodom, they figure you are nuts and don't want to be your friend. Especially *gasp* if you've vaccinated your kids, cuz your kids can "spread" the NASTY vaccine to theirs omigosh.
Everyone gives a flying fickle fate because it is the new thing to do if you are smart and want to be doing the "in" thing. If you don't do it, then you are STUPID AND CRAZY. Cuz flower remedies have their molecules in flowery shapes and that makes you magically perfect in every way! If you take drugs with NASTY CHEMICALS, well you are tainted and brain damaged and STUPID. If you allow your kids to be vaccinated then you're a BAD parent who has caused them to brain damaged, stupid, more prone to being sick, and now a threat to the health of other children.
You just have to read the letters to the editor, the news articles, magazines, go online, etc. to become part of the SCAM fan club that has taken over in large parts. Our local women's magazine will fill you in quite well with just one month's publication. It's a woman thing afterall, to be in tune with your body and following your intuition about what is best for you and everyone else on the planet because those uneducated magazine writers say so.
Try to find one article anywhere in local media that will explain the science and why MDs aren't all bad, too bad. Doctors are the evil ones, drugs are ALL bad. You must turn to a naturopath to ween off of toxic chemicals and become totally healthy again.
Why did the local folks give money to a family whose son was in hospital with cancer? To buy mannatech and other SCAM stuff. Why did the boy still die? The family ran out of the SCAM stuff that was keeping him alive, so that is why he died. Seriously, this is a huge story, mouth to mouth in my city. When I actually read the fundraising ad though, from another town, it was to raise money for experimental drugs at a legitimate hospital though, and he didn't die because he ran out of SCAM products to take. argh.
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I had to dig to find the truth, or just believe what people told me at work. Everyone knew the kid's name, but someone sure twisted the story to fit the SCAM is the only thing that can save you line, and you have to keep taking it to live, which is good for SCAM, since SCAM is non toxic, but if you have to keeping taking nasty drugs to live they will end up killing you because they are toxic. ugh. Well, the kid still died... because he didn't have enough SCAM to keep him alive... *headpalm* Well, the kid had a rare killer cancer that no amount of SCAM could have saved him from, but you are not to believe that, nope nope. Instead you need to believe that taking SCAM would have saved him if he hadn't run out of it. Gah.
So, no matter where I turn there is someone justifying why SCAM is good and regular medicine is bad, to the extreme, even using this boy's tragic story for the spin. It's beyond ridiculous.
Oh, and I have to read this tripe from a local antivaccine crusader nearly every month in the newspaper:
http://www.albertalocalnews.com/red...urt_wrong_to_dismiss_vaccine-autism_link.html
As a result, toxins can remain like a time-release capsule and this toxic buildup can prevent the brain from functioning properly, leading to autism and ADHD. Support for this claim has been found in primates being injected with vaccines.
I've given up trying to respond. It just gets me fired anyways, since I'm the stupid one to disagree with the local antivaccine nutters. There is a reason why our vaccine rates are falling, especially for MMR. Oh, and flouride is causing autism too, so the antiflouride rants on the local radio were flowing every 1/2 hour recently. Drove me up a wall. Every 1/2 hour all day were hysterical sounding sound bites of people ranting how flouride cause Alzheimer's, autism, ADD, ADHD, cancer. I listened, mesmerized by their whole hearted convictions. There was one solitary soundbite by teh evil dentist saying scientific studies showed no causation. He sounded very very boring and unconcerned about the health of your children compared to the other layperson rants.
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