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Snake oil is snake oil!
"Haven't we wondered or questioned why the USA is experiencing so much illness and disease. In wellness we are 35th or worse in comparison to other 'developed' nations while having 'knowledgeable' doctors, health care systems and billions of dollars to spend. Makes me wonder. Surely we must be going down the wrong road?"
Yes, you (the USA) are down the wrong road - privatized health care for profit! While we still have problems with waste and inefficiencies, it's not like that here in Canada nor in most of the developed nations with single-payer "socialized" medicine. But this doesn't mean that Dr. Mercola has the right answers!
"Why are our children so much sicker now than in the past with diseases like asthma, allergies, autism, diabetes, obesity and others? The rates have gone up from 3.1% to more than 52% of our kids being sick with diseases, this happening in a span of less than thirty years."
While I grant you that you may not be wrong, can you give reliable sources for these claims and your numbers, Cruz? Which ones have gone up and how much? My take is that some of these diseases are because of lifestyle and bad eating habits. Asthma and allergies probably more the result of worsening air quality, at least in some cases. None of these diseases are caused by the health care system nor the fault of well-meaning scientists. And again, none of this proves that Dr. Mercola is right about anything either. False flags argument, is that it?
"Over 4 billion dollars have been paid to families suffering from bad outcomes of vaccines."
Says who? Source? Which countries? Over how many years? By which companies? Representing how many families? I can't just take this statement on face value without more relative facts. Hmmm... Do you wonder how many millions and millions of children and people didn't suffer and die needlessly because of vaccines? I suspect that you'd agree that these lives are probably worth more than a paltry 4 billion dollars. FYI, no medicine nor vaccine has every claimed to be 100% effective.
"We should identify the ones that aren't and assure ourselves that we use only safe effective ones."
Yeah, that's just common sense and already the protocol used. And by we, I assume you mean the scientists will do this work as they've always done?
Cruz, you spin a very readable and well-crafted story and I'm happy to hear that you no longer suffer from IBS - I know it's no fun. It sounds to me like you didn't have a very good doctor in the beginning if she gave such a cavalier response to your issue. I had issues with IBS many years ago and my doctor prescribed a number of probiotics that work very well. The connection of gut and intestinal flora with IBS symptoms is no secret and has been known for quite awhile (at least up here in the great white North).
And my criticism of this doctor does not mean that I hold truck with the entire vast and varied field of natural medicine, which seemed to be the main thrust of your exposition. Au contraire! Pot oil definitely helps with many of my aches and pains! lol...shhh... At the same time, there are aspects that are really disturbing and so I'm not about to go to a Chinese herbalist for medicines with ground-up rhino horn, black bear gall bladder or seahorses (I shudder at the enormous harvest of so many creatures over the years). To paraphrase you, Cruz, because of science we came to know a long time ago that our world wasn't at the centre of our solar system and that it was not flat (though strangely the Flat Earth Society still exists!).
I simply can't ignore all the many articles that paint such a dubious picture of this gentleman - the evidence seems overwhelming and what I see reeks of charlatanism. Sorry Cruz, I know you're a wonderful soul and I seek and have no quarrel with you personally. I really enjoy reading most of your many posts (and you are prolific, eh! lol...). But on the subject of Dr. Mercola and vaccinations, I'm afraid we see different paths before ourselves. Pero no hay broncos, verdad?
(Is this still the LM message board? Or have I drifted into Reddit somehow? lol... so sorry Mod. D.)
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