How vain are you?

Melissa, no, I don't know that book, but it sounds heart-breaking. What I do not understand is how these quacks are able to continue operating, because it is not a trifling matter. People do actually die because of these kinds of sites etc.

I saw that Burzinski was in legal trouble again recently, but in spite of being busted every so often, he keeps chugging along and he is downright respectable compared to people like the Gerson Family and Mike Adams (naturalnews.com). Mike Adams is the one who wrote an absolutely vile article in response to Angelina Jolie's BMX.

And then there is our own, special Larry, of course

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/

Linkie above to SelenaWolf's excellent suggestion

AND - we have a contendah ( anybody else ever live in Bawstan?) for Our Larry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaturalNews

In our spare time, when we're not coming up with an Icon to warn our friends b4 watching Mrs. Brown, we could create a GNC.  Great New Conspiracy.  Worldwide rise in price of coffee as attempt to "bully" people into not having enemas?  Whaddaya think?

Yorkiemom =

WOW just WOW

Wyo, Rick Simpson is a very nice man from Canada. A long time ago, Rick got a bad concussion. It caused chronic pain and sleep trouble. The doctors could not help and Rick, quite understandably desperate by now, tried pot. Pot helped, but Rick's doc was concerned about the smoking part, so Rick made pot oil that he could eat.

Then Rick got a basal cell skin carcinoma (the "good" kind of skin cancer). The doctor operated it away, but a few days later Rick looked at the wound and thought it looked bad, so he figured pot might help and put some of his pot oil on it. When he removed the bandage 4 days later, it was HEALED! 

He concluded from this experience that doctors are useless and pot miraculous, so when he got another pimple/spot/mosquito bite/perhaps a carcinoma, he decided it was cancer (never DXed by a doctor) and that instead of surgery he would use the magic oil. The magic oil made the spot go away (although if it was actually a pimple or mosquito bite, the pot oil had nothing to do with it), and that is the basis for his fervent belief that pot oil cures cancer.

There is some legit research going on, as far as I know, on pot and cancer. It is possible that there are substances in the plant that may prove helpful against cancer, but it is still in very early stages.

I am so just loving this thread. It's what I need in so many ways.

So my comment on perfume - I love it when other people are wearing it. Unfortunately my personal body chemistry doesn't work with perfume - I put it on and within a few minutes it's GONE. The same thing would happen with my mother. She eventually started to put it on her slip but since I wear half-slips I guess that's not a solution for me!

So why can't more alternative-pushers be more like a friend of mine? She's very much into a lot of the alternative stuff but when she talks to me she will suggest things, gently and without pressure, and always adds on that I should make sure to research myself, not take her word for it (and yes, she'll send me links!). She also is more into complementary rather than alternative when it comes to cancer treatment. So where are more people like her?

Leah

FINALLY remembered the perfume I used to use - Chantilly Lace....anyone????

As for pot, I live in Canada. It's pretty much okay here, just not to distribute. (So where are we supposed to get it then? Doi!) I've smoked or eaten it for over 40 years. When my fibromyalgia is very bad or when my back was at it's worst, it did NOT help!!! It actually accentuated the pain as you are MORE aware of stuff around you when stoned. I hated it!!! One of the reasons I don't drink anymore either, as when I start to relax THAT much then everything hurts!

Pot was/is used in cancer treatment to make someone hungry enough to eat when they don't feel like it. Like during chemo or in end stages. That's it. We all know that some cancers do spontaneously disappear on their own. That's a given - not a miracle. As for those who tried alternative and did NOT make it...well, we'll never hear from them, right? I hate seeing people taking standard and alternative at the same time as they wipe each other out!! Don't build UP your immune system as the chemo is trying to break it down....doi! Complementary like massage, spa treatments, etc can certainly help us feel BETTER during treatment but certainly not cure us.

Melissa, I think I remember who you're talking about. That was why I was trying to guide her toward a more reasonable appraisal of her stats, and how much conventional treatment benefits her. Sadly, she seems to have already drunk the Kool-Aid.

Yorkie,  about the semi-literate thing, that has been my conclusion as well. I was thinking about it yesterday, due to a discussion elsewhere (related to health, but not BC). One poster kept insisting that her quackery/nutjob articles were equal to scholarly journal papers. Nothing could seemingly convince her otherwise, and I finally concluded that because of her (mild) reading comprehension issues, it probably all sounds like magical mumbo-jumbo that she doesn't really understand - whether science or quackery - and as long as it includes phrases she thinks of as belonging in the "science" department, she is ready to take the info at face value.

Oh my!  The thread seems to have moved on from hair, make-up and waxing and into the area of intellectual vanity.  The heading has changed to make it official too.  How many of us have started our own threads on BCO now?  I confess that, perhaps, doing that might have been an expression of my own vanity.  I will have to do more soul searching and inward reflection to know the extent of it.  At one time, I considered it an act of reaching out to others but, in hindsight, I can't just discard the notion that it might have been a subconscious vanity that made me do it.  In fact, when I look at many of the post I have written, even some of the more objective ones, I can see some vanity shimmering just below the surface.  This one being no exception.

Selena, I still love Love's Baby Soft and you can still get it. It is nice and "quiet" and clean in a hellishly hot Summer. My favorite body wash is Johnson's Moisture Care, which smells like their baby lotion. When it is really hot I also love dousing myself with cornstarch baby powder. I also sprinkle it on my sheets when I change the bed.

I wish I could still get Love's Fresh Lemon. I have a bottle of Bigelow lemon cologne, but it is not the same.

Eli, I am pretty sure I am intellectually vain to some extent. I can live with that