Dara O'Briain with home truths about quackery

Dara O'Briain tells it like it is (or should be) about various delusions pretending to be medicine.

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[KamekoBruns]

Get in the fucking sack.

[HunchbackJack]

What did it cure you of, thirst?

HBJ

[noless]

Dara is great. So funny

[Kevin Von Zell]

The sky is NOT "a carpet painted by god," but IS an illusion created by a false god, the god of the Christians. Any healing coming through a false Jesus Christus character is just that -- FALSE -- no more than a "sugar pill" that makes your dopamine increase resulting in the false sense of being "healed." So, do NOT turn to my ancestor, Emperor Ptolemy Soter's (Savior) false god Serapis (Jesus) for a quack cure. Instead, turn to your only Savior, the Goddess Sophia who aborted Yahweh, Xtian god!

[Kevin Von Zell]

FACT:You cannot KNOWINGLY be an A-theist -- simply because NO one KNOWS, for sure, that there is NO god. So, why not turn, before you turn 24 years old, to GNOSTICISM, which is the truth of "KNOWING;" gnosis being Greek for KNOWLEDGE.

Gnostics do NOT believe in a PHYSICAL god that created this universe, yet we do believe in the SPIRITUAL God that has a "WHATEVER!" attitude towards making human errors or mistakes.

Trust me: Gnostics RULE! Meaning that ALL of us ARE GOD, no sin, no hell, I=GOD!!!

[TheBlacksmith45]

Then you really weren't sick.

Now, get in the fecking sack.

[KamekoBruns]

You anticipated my response.

I was going to say that if your argument is that these procedures work because they cause pain which releases endorphins then I'm going to open a store front where people pay me to smack them in the face with a brick to make them feel better.

In fact, since smacking people with a brick would make me feel better this would be a total "Win-win" situation.

;-)

[desager1]

You seem to have a typographical error in the last line there, the proper sentence should of been "in evidence that homeopathy doesn't work." Oh, you included the Cochrane review, lets see here "The Cochrane Library found insufficient clinical evidence" Odd how you didn't say that. Have fun being a lying douche bag, dumbass.

[Dr. Nancy Malik]

Upto the end of year 2010, there have been 270 studies published in 106 medical journals including 11 meta-analysis, 8 systematic reviews including 1 cochrane review (out of approximately 20 systematic reviews published) and 93 DBRPCT (out of approximately 225 RCT published) in evidence of homeopathy.

[demiserofd]

Realistically, chiropractic and acupuncture DO do something; the pain that you feel while doing them triggers the release of endorphins into your system, making you feel better. Feeling better makes you happier, and being happy is scientifically proven to make you healthier!

That said, I don't pay for them. I pinch the acne on my face. The pain I feel from that does exactly the same thing. I save money, I'm happier, and my face looks better.

[phrenological]

A DPT is pretty useful.

[RFC3514]

While not quite as outlandish in its claims as chiropractic, osteopathy has its own dose of voodoo and refusal to accept clinical evidence. Luckily, at least in the US, an "osteopath" must also be a licensed physician (but that doesn't prevent some osteopaths from saying they can cure asthma, menstrual cramps, etc.).

If you want someone who actually focuses on what works and what doesn't, talk to an orthopedist.