Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:13 pm
ixcuincle wrote:How does Viagra kill hundreds of people? I haven't heard of a reported death from Viagra yet. If I did , wouldn't the FDA take the drug off the market?
Cases of heart attack and stroke in a small number of men who take Viagra have puzzled medical researchers
Viagra (generic: sildenafil), sold by Pfizer, Inc., was approved by the FDA in 1998. The FDA has 38 reports of the blindness among users of Viagra.
Cialis (generic: tadalafil) sold by Eli Lilly & Co. and Icos Corp., was approved by the FDA in 2003. The Cialis label was recently changed to notify patients of cases of non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy. Five million men have been prescribed Cialis worldwide, and the FDA has 4 reports of vision loss as a result of taking Cialis.
Levitra (generic: vardenafil hydrochloride), sold by Bayer Corporation was approved by the FDA in 2003. Federal health officials are investigating rare reports of blindness among men using Levitra. The Food and Drug Administration is aware of 1 report of varying degrees of vision loss, including blindness, as a result of taking Levitra.
Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:50 pm
Fact is docters and drugs are bad for you. Do you know the 100 year old lady who are still living and ARE MORE ACTIVE THAN A KID? Well, if you ask her what make her so healthy, she'll tell you that she DON'T GO TO DOCTERS, DON'T TAKE DRUGS, eat right--which is basically your natural medicine right there, EAT RIGHT--and excerise everyday.
all drugs causes dieases(period).
AIDS would be exceptional, since it is not a diease, and there is no cure. And medicine is the only option (even though those drugs still have side effects, but not as bad as dying, so people prefer to live)
South Park on Alternative Medicine
Kyle Broslavski is sick in bed. His mom explains to a neighbor, Sharon, that he is a diabetic and has always had kidney problems but lately they just seem to be shutting down.
Sheila: I don't know what to do Sharon. They want to have him go into surgery! It's so dangerous.
Sharon: Sheila, have you tried holistic natural medicines? They work wonders! I read all about it in People.
Sheila: Really? In People?
Sharon: There's a brand new shop in town that sells holistic medicines and all natural foods. It's run by this fascinating woman named Miss Information.
Sheila: Oh, well, with a name like Miss Information she must know something!
So they take Kyle to the holistic medicine store.
Miss Information: You see, the reason our bodies fail is because of toxins. All the horrible food we eat, the sodas and meat, are filled with toxins; and the only way for us to get better is to flush those toxins out of our system. Western Medicine is so quick to cut and carve up, when all your son needs is a constant flushing diet of lemon juice and cayenne pepper.
Sheila: Did you hear that Kyle? You don't need surgery after all! Kyle: (mumbles incoherently)
Stan (Kyle's friend, Sharon's son): Excuse me, but what do these toxins look like? Have you ever actually seen a toxin?
Sharon: Don't be a smart ass, Stanley!
Miss Information: Ms. Broslavski, I'd like to give your son herbs which focus on the kidneys. I have these excellent herbs from local Native Americans.
Sharon: Ooh! Native Americans. Now they know how to heal the body spiritually!
Next day we see Ms Information make a home visit. Kyle is in bed, stuporous, and a couple of neighbor moms are commenting how terrible he looks.
Miss Information(making a grand entrance): Good Morning everyone!
Sheila: Oh, thanks for coming Miss Information. Kyle seems to be getting worse!
Miss Information walks over to the bed, closes her eyes, and waves her hands over Kyle while humming. She does a two second assessment.
Miss Information: Oh, I don't agree! He seems MUCH better. Sheila: Really?
Miss Information: Yes. His chi is flowing much nicer than yesterday, and his aura is lighter!
Sharon: Oh that's great news!
Kyle suddenly vomits a bucketfull on the floor.
Sheila: Oh no!
Miss Information: No, no, that's GOOD! Those are the toxins flushing out of his system.
Stan: Those aren't toxins, that's the bean with bacon soup he ate a half hour ago!
Sharon: Stanley, what did I say about being a smart ass?
Miss Information: Now don't be fooled as Kyle's body sheds itself of more and more of the toxins. He may appear to be getting worse, but actually he's getting better.
Sheila: Oh! Well, I am SOLD on natural medicines. If only I had known sooner.
There's a great scene in the holistic medicine store where people are now lined up around the block to get in, and the place is crowed with shoppers all excited about finding products like "free range aspirin" and "all natural cell phones." The Native Americans then make their appearance, played by Cheech and Chong. They are obviously latinos, but the crowd believes Miss Information, and C+C play along with the charade. They are immediately mobbed by the crowd, demanding to know if they have any new holistic items for sale. Cheech reaches into a box and pulls out a clothes hanger held together with duct tape.
Cheech: Oh, yeah, ahh ... here! This is a, ahh ... a dream catcher!
Patron: Oh! A dream catcher! I'll buy one of those!
Crowd: Yeah! Me too.
Chong: And these here are Cherokee hair tampons. They're like all natural tampons made from the hair of Cherokee people.
Sharon: Ooo! A tampon made from Cherokee hair. Now that sounds all natural!
Miss Information: native Americans are more in tune with the earth than we are.
Miss Information then suggests that the Native Americans do a healing on Kyle the next day, which they readily agree to do ("Yeah, we'll give him a brain enema or something, man!") Miss Information then leads Sheila over to the cash register to take a deposit for the treatment. Meanwhile, Stan walks in after talking to the town MD. He says the doc told him that the holistic medicines won't work, and that Kyle needs a kidney transplant as soon as possible.
Ms Information: Well, of course the doctor told you that, because HE wants to make MONEY. Holistic medicine is about NATURE! (turning to Sheila) That'll be $233.
Sheila: Everything will be fine, Stan. We're bringing Kyle in to see the Native Americans personally.
Stan: Isn't is possible that these Indians don't know what they're talking about?
Sharon: You watch your mouth Stanley! The Native Americans were raped of their land and resources by white people like us!
Stan: And that has something to do with their medicine because...?
Sharon: ENOUGH Stanley!
Well, you get the picture. They bring Kyle in the next day for the "treatment" and Cheech and Chong see how sick he is, and suggest that, really, he needs to see a doctor. The crowd insists that they must know how to heal him, but then they confess that they are not really Native Americans, but, well, Mexicans, actually. One man spits out the potion he was drinking, and another woman grabs her crotch and screams in horror, most likely having second thoughts about the Cherokee hair tampon. It all ends well, though. Kyle gets his transplant in time, and the angry crowd beats up the owner of the holistic medicine shop.
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Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:34 am
Laxation wrote:Holy shit mr funk, you are so fucking stupid...
you have one fucking example from billions around the world, who doesnt go to the doctor, and that gets you to the conclusion that ALL people benefit from not going to doctors, not taking medication?? wtf is wrong with you? think of all the people who might never have even been born without drugs, painkillers that allowed the mothers to live through the pain of having children, the DOCTORS that not only helped get the baby out of the mum, but the doctors that saved all the babies with problems that occured in the womb... problems that i would fucking love to see natural medicine cure.
and im sorry, but natural medicine is not excerising and eating right, thats just common fucking sense. if everyone in the world ate healthy and excersised every day, guess what, we would still have viral infections, stds and whatnot - we would have shitloads less of heart problems but im guess that some people are born with bad hearts, they didnt grow a bad heart from taking medication that gave it to them.
you say people die from drugs? holy shit no way! whats the bet it was because of allergies, overdosing, or even just taking drugs that werent prescribed to you in the first place?
how bout instead of listening to the FD fucking A and your dumass school who is trying to con all their fucking students into never joining the army, you make up your own mind on the subject, and talk to all the people who have survived cancer because of leukemia treatment... im sure they would just LOVE to hear how bad drugs are for you
i took some painkillers yesterday, maybe i have cancer :roll
aids is a disease, there maybe no cure but medicine and drugs have given us preventions (better than a fucking cure) as well as drugs that can stop some of the effects of aids.
Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:36 am
mrs.funk wrote:And how everythig is being label as a "diease"
Trudeau claim that "not 99% of the drugs cause diease, but 100%."
He said that they is a "cure for virtually very diease".
does all their reaserch on "treatments" for dieases, which basically "baby sit" your diease
doesn't claim to cure any mature diease
which diease out there have a cure accounting to the FDA?
becasue if dieases are cure
DRUGS ARE ON THE RISE AND DIEASES ARE ON THE RISE!
like I said, all drugs causes dieases(period).
for it may lead to heart diease.....etc."
AIDS would be exceptional, since it is not a diease
since AIDS is not a diease
and it will give you a diease
but like I said, there is no diease out there has a cure according to the FDA.
so if you're taking a drug for some sort of diease, you are required to take it for the rest of your life....because the diease don't away
HAVING A BABY IS NOT A DIEASE.
When the drug companies are admmitteing that their drugs causes diease, then I would liston.
When did HIV and AIDS become a diease?
Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:04 am
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Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:50 pm
The Other Kevin wrote:I guess being bad at sarcasm is a diease as well that can't be cured.
i think there are cases where the government (any government) legalizes or doesn't legalize certain substances, etc. in order to somewhere down the line make money, but i think its apparent pretty much everywhere. i don't think america is sadistic enough to poison themselves in order to make money off the cure. isn't that the plot of mission impossible or something? key word, impossible. now, obviously there are sideffects to pretty much any drug, but i think its not neccessarily the sideffects that lead to a sickness to another drug, etc., etc.. it could be what we eat, our enviroment, who knows. drugs may just be a way of speeding up our evolution in order to protect ourselves against the sideeffects of technology in general.
Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:15 pm
Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:15 am
Laxation wrote:I welcome you to live a life of not taking drugs and medication, and well... dieing, but thats not for me
....wait, I'm not going to get sick or have a major diease, why am I going to die.....or bet yet, why the hell do I need drugs when will be healthy all my life.
I've had enough of aruging with a complete moron who fails to see such obvious logic
THIS IS COMMON SENSE: Technoloy and "medicine" gets more advance, yet there is no cure for any diease. But instead, the rate of the dieases have increase largely over the years, and "coincidently" drugs are rising dramatically. Their profit is rising, we americans are getting fatter and fatter, and sicker.....and the circle goes on." - Mr.Funk
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