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In reply to the discussion: Giving a lecture on old-timey quack medicines tomorrow [View all]dionysus
(26,467 posts)160. don't try convincing this guy... you're wasting your breath.
he knows better than people who take meds that are working for them.
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where else would depression be but 'in their heads'? that doesn't mean that anti-depressants
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#25
please tell me how the test for low serotonin works. as you are such a scholar, i'm sure you know.
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#35
So the last 40 years of neuroscience is a Big Pharma conspiracy to sell pills, gotcha.
Odin2005
Aug 2012
#40
i've read up on it for years -- including at university. which is how i know that patients
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#64
not at all, but you're tiresome. it's well-known that anti-depressants don't work for a significant
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#92
you'd have a point -- if there were some way of determining who a 'good candidate' for treatment
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#98
<50% of that population get relief from anti-depressants. and as with any large powerful corporation
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#100
my argument wouldn't be any of those things. this discussion began when i stated that there
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#105
I wonder why you felt you had to post all those links, as i've not denied that chinese medicine
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#124
I quoted the world wildlife fund on habitat loss being the most important cause of extinction
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#134
if SSRI's don't work for you, perhaps you should get some benzo's.. i think you could use some...
dionysus
Aug 2012
#159
He/She is using the same arguments the Creationists use when denying evolution.
Odin2005
Aug 2012
#49
several hidden assumptions in there...i'll leave you to figure them out as you fancy you are so
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#54
If you think depression's a monolithic nonbiological thing you really need to stop talking
Posteritatis
Aug 2012
#111
"sounds like someone" is an opinion, not a fact. not an objective premise, sorry.
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#69
more name-calling, while i'm citing evidence. readers can judge for themselves who's more
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#88
politicians didn't create the food pyramid, dietitians/professor types did. but the ones who
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#174
i understand what you're saying about the pyramid, i'm just saying you've got some of the
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#179
Indeed, I think it would be fairly easy to put together a presentation showcasing
Care Acutely
Aug 2012
#20
opium. & if you think chinese medicine was/is worthless you don't know anything about it.
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#39
as i said, you have no idea what credentials people have. but namecalling in place of an argument
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#50
you said chinese medicine (en toto) was "worthless". i'm not 'pushing' chinese medicine, i'm
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#67
you asked for one example & i gave you one. now you want to talk about tiger penises.
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#90
"The rate of adverse effects was similar in both the thunder god vine and sulfasalazine groups."
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#96
no, that's capitalism. chinese medicine isn't all about endangered species, fyi.
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#51
ah, my error then. no, i'll leave it stand, as it's true re modern times. also vietnamese &
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#106
see the dip circa 1851? 20-30 million = opium wars/taiping rebellion. biggest population loss of
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#130
yes, i'm blaming the western powers, for multiple reasons. the opium wars and the taiping
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#135
I've always enjoyed watching the patent med vendors switch their target audiences
Posteritatis
Aug 2012
#117
Gee, back in the day Coke was made with real cocaine. People gave paregoric to infants
appleannie1
Aug 2012
#121
Sadly there is plenty of anti-science thinking among otherwise rational people on the left.
NYC Liberal
Aug 2012
#161