@RickiTarr Some things are worth ranting about. If...

@RickiTarr Some things are worth ranting about.

If people want to make an informed decision to forego modern medicine and take some "all natural" (but completely ineffective) potion instead, that's up to them.

But the people who sell that "all natural" crap and try to convince people that it's actually useful should be in jail, IMHO.

Like 8 Dec 2023 at 16:32 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mas.to

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bytebro

@statsguy @RickiTarr Since human history began, I'll wager there has always been the equivalent of the 'snake-oil salesman'

8 Dec 2023 at 16:36 | Open on mastodonapp.uk

Ricki Tarr

@bytebro @statsguy Well, at least what I've seen from written history, I'd say that is correct.

8 Dec 2023 at 16:43 | Open on beige.party

Adam Jacobs

@bytebro @RickiTarr I'm sure that's true, though to be fair, until a couple of hundred years ago, that's really all there was anyway.

What's interesting is that anti-vaxxers have been around for as long as vaccines, and the kind of nonsense that anti-vaxxers come up with today is spookily similar to the stuff that people were saying back when smallpox vaccine was invented back in the 1700s.

8 Dec 2023 at 16:43 | Open on mas.to

TonyTrink1969

@bytebro @statsguy @RickiTarr Started with those damn Ichthyosaur Oil Salespeople. Fuckers. 🙄

8 Dec 2023 at 16:46 | Open on strangeobject.space

Adam Jacobs

@TonyTrink1969 @bytebro @RickiTarr 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

8 Dec 2023 at 17:51 | Open on mas.to

Ricki Tarr

@statsguy And sometimes it costs more than just going to the doctor! All my prescriptions cost $30 a month, I've seen some prebiotic super green whatever that costs hundreds a month. It's even more gross when you know people could just use that money to buy good healthy food instead.

8 Dec 2023 at 16:37 | Open on beige.party

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