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In reply to the discussion: When Dietary Supplements Are Used As Medicines [View all]Celebration
(15,812 posts)19. not getting your point
Are you saying that marketing is a scam? If so, I think you want to bring down our whole capitalist system.
Although I would agree with you that anything that creates needless demand for things that the taxpayers fund either directly or indirectly, should be banned. That would include ads for pharmaceutical drugs, which are enormously expensive and may bring down our whole Medicare system. However, I would not object to pharmaceutical ads if individuals had to bear the cost, because the rules of supply and demand would be in play.
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I welcome the new FDA regulations that allow a percentage of rat feces in my peanut butter.
HysteryDiagnosis
Dec 2011
#5
Thank you for the red herring and the list of self-selected preliminary studies.
HuckleB
Dec 2011
#6
Yup, been used since the beginning of time and the most recent preliminary studies are
HysteryDiagnosis
Dec 2011
#8
You are certainly most welcome. Have a great holiday season and a wonderful new year! n't
HysteryDiagnosis
Dec 2011
#10
"Glucosamine is an extremely popular, and profitable, supplement routinely recommended by ...
HuckleB
Dec 2011
#22
Food might be medicine, but calling regulation baloney in regard to supplements is simply ignoring..
HuckleB
Dec 2011
#14
Then why do things like advertising, public relations and sales techniques exist?
HuckleB
Dec 2011
#18
Unfortunately for your assertion, the evidence that millions of people are fooled buy baseless ...
HuckleB
Dec 2011
#24
The OP shows, as has been shown by others repeatedly, that most supplements are unnecessary.
HuckleB
Dec 2011
#33
When it comes to health care claims, those claims need to be proven beforehand.
HuckleB
Dec 2011
#27
I have the same concerns about the pharmaceutical industry as i do about the supplement industry.
HuckleB
Dec 2011
#35