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Are Doctors Still This Stupid?

This TV commercial depicts a period when cigarettes were recommended by doctors.

Obviously, they no longer promote smoking, but they're wholeheartedly endorsing treatments that are even more absurd and detrimental than smoking, such as relying on drugs for virtually every ailment known to man while ignoring the underlying cause of disease.

I am sure that in 60 years your descendants will see a similar video showing how utterly foolish and mistaken doctors were in 2007.

It's about time we started studying history so we can learn from it and have a better understanding of our current scenario.

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Posted On Jun 22, 2007
Today's Hall of Shame:

Dr. Robert Jarvik's endorsement of Lipitor.

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Posted On Jun 22, 2007
Jarvik got, and is still getting, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS for this PR/Spin campaign.

But it is of little surprise, for a guy who is in a reactive model, waiting to stick some plastic and batteries in your chest, as opposed to treating or PREVENTING the cardio vascular problem, in the first place.

JARVIK does not get a pay day, nor Lipitor, if there are not sick and dying heart patients.

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Posted On Jul 12, 2007
Plus that Jarvik character just is not easy on the eyes.

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Posted On Jul 12, 2007
What's funny is the commercial with him standing by the lake or beach with his cup of coffee, playing with his dog, knowing that those huge deposits are being made even as he speaks.

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Posted On Jul 13, 2007
If any of you are wondering why these Doctors seem to be so stupid just go to "ama murder by injection" and you'll learn about 2 of the elites who are trying to kill us, maime us or weaken our immune system. The other 2 elites are the Queen of England and the nazis.

By law, they can only use useless procedures to tackle cancer. If they try to use nutritional products they will lose their license to practise.

The best products are at newvision.com. I've been using them for 7 years and at 57 I feel in better shape than at 27. I work hard at a vending machine route that many other vendors my age are quiting. But I am still building my business.

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Posted On Oct 30, 2007
The Queen of England and Nazis? Your killing me lol!!! 

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Posted On Jun 22, 2007
I like this because it  reminds you to take all the official recommendations with a big grain of Himalayan Sea Salt.

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Posted On Jul 12, 2007
To those advocating smoking,I have seen patients who smoke and don't have heart disease or cancer.I've also seen patients who don't wear seatbelts and live to tell about it.I've watched people play Russian roulette and survive.Smoking is unequivocally related to increases in a wide range of diseases including heart disease and cancer.I'm sure Peter Jennings,John,Wayne,Yul brenner, the Malboro Man and Sammy Davis Jr  would disagree with you.You can't extrapolate your results to others.Making a choice to put a loaded gun to your head and pull the trigger is your personal choice.Don't rationalize that poor choice to invite others who may not be as lucky as yourselves.Roby Mitchell M.D.

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Posted On Jul 13, 2007
Even though I do not like cigarettes and I think it is a nasty and dangerous habit, I have to put my two cents in.
I used to live in Israel and our family doctor was a very interesting character. He was very big on growing your own food and natural remedies. He was also physician for the two Druze villages that are just outside Haifa. I remember he once said that nearly every male in those villages smoked but there was not a single instance of lung cancer or emphysema. The reasons? These villages raised their own tobacco. They also dried and cut it themselves. It was totally organic and pure. The men, for the most part also did physical labor daily as part of their work. I suspect that the biggest killer in cigarettes are the chemicals added, not the tobacco.

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Posted On Jul 13, 2007
You are right, Is_night, tar does not naturally occur in tobacco along with many other chemicals.  Once these chemicals are added is when other changes start to take place in the dried plant.  It begins to grow mold and other things that are highly toxic and allergen inducing.  I grew up around tobacco fields and never had allergy issues with them.  I am allergic to the mold that grows in the processed tobacco though.  The chemicals that are added are to make the substance more addictive and in the process more toxic.  Don't get me wrong, I am not a smoking advocate or anything; but, even Native Americans smoked their peace pipes and grasses without ill effects until (don don don...roll ominous music) the strangers from across the sea came along and altered their culture...well, what they left of it. 

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Posted On Jul 13, 2007
I made that comment earlier and glad to see someone thought the same.  Its interesting you actually have information to show pure tobacco is "healthier".  I really think the tobacco companies have done something to alter the tobacco to making it harmful in the process of keeping it fresh, looking good or maybe using strong pesticides in growing it.  With my suspicious nature I kinda think A.M.E. has a point about something making it more addictive.  

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Posted On Jun 25, 2007
Wow.......that old clip just goes to show you how educated people (even doctors) aren't as smart as they'd like all of us to believe. They might be educated in their field but quite ignorant in other matters. The tobacco is hardly the part of the smoke you need to worry about. It's all the chemicals they soak the tobacco in before they roll them into cigarettes! These chemical additives are guaranteed to shorten your lifespan in numerous ways.

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