Bill Maher anti-medication

Conversation about steroids segues into Bill's bizarre anti medication tirade. This is taken from his HBO show, but I'm claiming Fair Use since this is a commentary on Bill's nutty beliefs.

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• medication
• whackjob
• conspiracy
• theory
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• drugs

[cepdv]

Bill is right, we have so much access to good food in this country yet we choose to eat dairy meat and process foods. Eat green veggies, fruits, nuts and seeds and stick it to the pharmaceutical companies.

[piddleton]

You missed the point completely. Many people are needlessly taking medication they don't need. it is partly the doctors fault (i should know, I am one) for giving into them (e.g. way too many people are on anti depressants and most of them are not clinically depressed) but a large share of the responsibilty lies with the pharmaceutical companies with their manipulative advertising that is targeted at making people feel insecure about their health.

[andrew186511]

@cepdv but i love my vicodins <3

[jordanashelin18]

i love bill maher but i hate how everybody in the audience wants to suck his d

[mwr7483]

I hope I look as good as Bill does when I'm his age... he's almost 56 and he looks like he's in his late 30's. Yes I know he has makeup on for his show, but even without it he still looks much younger than his age. We're not designed to eat all these chemicals, we are organisms and need natural foods. Yes we occasionally need things like antibiotics to kill germs but as the saying goes "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

[007jjb]

As much as I find Maher repulsive a broken clock is still right twice a day and he is right on here. Pharmaceuticals are poisons and in many cases purposesly poisonous because they could not PATENT a natural healing substance so they patent poisons. Bill Maher is rigth here, the Terrain is everything the Germ is nothing. Stay healthy eat well, supplement with the best nutrients and keep your temple pure and strong and you wont need toxins.

[TyphonUK]

I agree with a lot of what Bill Maher say, but this is a load of absolute, uneducated CRAP. Yes, pharmaceutical companies push drugs that are not needed, and doctors OVER prescibe drugs, but by saying "All drugs are poisons" and enciting people not to take them is not only wrong, but dangerous. I've now lost a HUGE amount of respect for him

[ProgressiveAudio]

While there is a point in that people eat too much crap and do take too much meds, Bill Maher uses it as a platform to defend bullshit alternative medicine and even goes so far to claim it can cure cancer and Big Pharma is holding it back for that reason. The supposed rationalist who made a whole film bashing crazy religious people embraces crazy New Age paranoid nonsense.

[Bumblybee256]

Actually Bill, any substance can be poison, even water.

This could be solved with better science education, especially for people who plan to preach about science on media outlets, Bill Maher.

I'm sure he won't turn to pharma if he becomes gravely ill and I'm sure he never received vaccines *rolls eyes*.

[ComplexMissy]

... Psych meds also have been shown to create hormonal imbalances (so if you're a woman, get on the birth control pill to help with your inconsistent cycles!), worsening of intolerances and allergies (so add in an antihistamine to deal with that like Zyrtec or Claritin), constipation (make sure you use MiraLAX so you don't get stopped up while taking your Zoloft!), heart problems like palpitations (better use a beta blocker!), and on and on and on! It's nuts!!!

[ComplexMissy]

@lucaslmgv I agree. But we are just using these medications way too much. And a lot of medications are now being used to treat side effects from OTHER meds, NOT to treat actual illnesses! For example: Psychiatric medications can cause upset stomach/acid reflux (so add in a Proton Pump Inhibitor to help with that if you're on an SSRI or an antipsychotic), high cholesterol (so add in a statin drug!), sedation and drowsiness (so add in something like Ritalin or Provigil)...