Skeptics - always demanding the impossible:

“The minimum sellers of detox products should be able to offer is a clear understanding of what detox is and proof that their product actually works.

The people we contacted could do neither.”

In other words, NewAgers are like Ted Touched-By-God Cruz, trying to stop ObamaCare:

I knew there was some connection,...

 

Pretty simple. 

But, of course, this issue gets me harassed, endlessly, online. 

Here's how two bulging discs in my spine are described:

  "You did it to yourself, Crack. The blame is entirely on you. Quit trying to lay the blame for the stupidity and criminal behavior of blacks on others."

 Naturally, everyone's racial and sexual social attitudes - and their  medical problems - are ALWAYS connected. Along with God hating gays and punishing us.

These top-notch "thinkers" also are prone to offering their own brand of "useful" advice. Think about it, blacks:

You're trying to get something to eat - what would you think you need to hear? Here's the white guy who claims to have it all:

"Go back to school and get an LPN degree.



Takes a year."

Gee, thanks for that starve-in-the-meantime answer. What none of my harassers will do is face the actual problem, which I describe, daily:

"Most chiropractors have very little inkling what evidence-based practice amounts to; the good intentions that once motivated them have long given way to the need to make money. They are unable to critically assess their own activities, and all the bogus claims they have been exposed to are thus endlessly and profitably perpetuated. The principles of medical ethics have remained alien to most of them. In fact, ‘evidence-based chiropractic’ is an oxymoron: either you abide by evidence – in which case you cannot possibly conceive the idea of adjusting spinal ‘subluxations’ – or you believe in the myth of ‘subluxations’ in which case your practice is not evidence-based. Long is right, I think, when he states: the most efficient way to protect against chiropractic mistreatment is to avoid chiropractors altogether.

Whenever someone dares to criticise their bizarre interventions, chiropractors react with anger, personal attacks, defamation or even libel suits."

 And YOU let it happen. YOU even encouraged it, you yoga-and-chiropractic-supporting hippie lunatics, so fuck YOU. The Real Message? From them, and the other Boomers out there, to me?

Better someone injured is in the streets - where the rest of you Nazis can kick them - than interrupt your Boomer desire for mass delusion,...

That P.J. O'Rourke is one pretty sharp dude. Except for not knowing the BB Gun ended production in 1960, he still sees what I do:

"We are the generation that changed everything. Of all the eras and epochs of Americans, ours is the one that made the biggest impression—on ourselves. That's an important accomplishment, because we're the generation that created the self, made the firmament of the self, divided the light of the self from the darkness of the self, and said, "Let there be self." If you were born between 1946 and 1964, you may have noticed this yourself. That's not to say we're a selfish generation. Selfish means 'too concerned with the self,' and we're not. Self isn't something we're just, you know, concerned with. We are self.

Before us, self was without form and void, like our parents in their dumpy clothes and vague ideas. Then we came along. Now the personal is the political. The personal is the socioeconomic. The personal is the religious and the secular, science and the arts. The personal is everything that creepeth upon the earth after his (and, let us hasten to add, her) kind. If the baby boom has done one thing, it's to beget a personal universe. (Our apologies for anyone who personally happens to be a jerk.)"

"We should have had a cooler name, the way the Lost Generation did. Except good luck to anybody who tries to tell us to get lost."

 "To address America's baby boom is to face big, broad problems. We number more than 75 million, and we're not only diverse but take a thorny pride in our every deviation from the norm (even though we're in therapy for it). We are all alike in that each of us thinks we're unusual.

Fortunately, we are all alike in our approach to big, broad problems too. We won't face them. There's a website for that, a support group to join, a class to take, alternative medicine, regular exercise, a book that explains it all, a celebrity on TV who's been through the same thing, or we can eliminate gluten from our diet."

That's pretty much been it - disgusting NewAge "America":

75 million dangerous, delusional, gibbering idiots.

Forever "offering" these useless choices, forced on me from birth,...

 

I’ve really come to detest Dr. Mehmet Oz.

You remember Dr. Mehmet Oz, don’t you? How can you escape him? He is, after all, Oprah Winfrey’s protege, and of late he’s really been living up (or down) to the example set by his television mentor, who of late apparently thinks nothing of promoting faith healing quack John of God on her show. Following in the footsteps of his much more famous and well-known mentor, this season on his television show, The Dr. Oz Show, Dr. Oz has in some ways imitated Oprah and in some ways gone her one better (one worse, really) in promoting the Oprah-fication of medicine. And this season has been a particularly bad one for science-based medicine on The Dr. Oz Show. Apparently Dr. Oz felt that he had to surpass what he did last season, which included inviting a man whom I consider to be one of the foremost sellers of quackery on the Internet, Dr. Joseph Mercola. Prior to that, Dr. Oz had done an episode touting the glories of that form of faith healing known as reiki. In between, he made appearances at various panels of woo-friendly physicians trying to coopt President Obama’s health insurance reform initiative to cover more “holistic” care (i.e., “integrative medicine”).

Orac finally got to Chairman Mao's acupuncture story and fills us in, further, on the "science":

  "Common portrayals of acupuncture paint it as being 3,000 years old, as implausible as that is. Why implausible? For one thing, the technology to make such incredibly thin needles didn’t exist 3,000 years ago,…It has also been argued that acupuncture evolved from bloodletting based on astrology."

Whatever - have it your way:

Integrate that shit - the problem's Big Pharma,...