Take a look at this nonsense that was published on NaturalNews.com. I’m going to copy the libelous words of the writer in red and then my direct responses in blue:
http://www.naturalnews.com/028012_skeptics_medicine.html
What ‘skeptics’ really believe about vaccines, medicine, consciousness and the universe |
Sunday, January 24, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
What skeptics really believe
I thought it would be interesting to find out exactly what “skeptics” actually believe, so I did a little research and pulled this information from various “skeptic” websites. What I found will make you crack up laughing so hard that your abs will be sore for a week. Take a look…
• Skeptics believe that ALL vaccines are safe and effective (even if they’ve never been tested), that ALL people should be vaccinated, even against their will, and that there is NO LIMIT to the number of vaccines a person can be safely given. So injecting all children with, for example, 900 vaccines all at the same time is believed to be perfectly safe and “good for your health.”
If it reduces the incidence of tooth decay, why not? Can this writer show experimental data showing that water floridation does not do that?
• Skeptics believe that many six-month-old infants need antidepressant drugs. In fact, they believe that people of all ages can be safely given an unlimited number of drugs all at the same time: Antidepressants, cholesterol drugs, blood pressure drugs, diabetes drugs, anti-anxiety drugs, sleeping drugs and more — simultaneously!
Distortion of the truth. Since viruses mutate often, the natural antibodies that may have worked to defend against them decades ago may no longer be effective. And why should we wait for natural mutations to change our antibodies to protect us against the new strains of viruses?
• Skeptics believe that pregnancy is a disease and childbirth is a medical crisis. (They are opponents of natural childbirth.)
• Skeptics do not believe in hypnosis. This is especially hilarious since they are all prime examples of people who are easily hypnotized by mainstream influences.
Another outright falsehood. It’s not that we do not beleive in hypnosis, we just don’t buy the exaggerated claims about how effective that form of therapy is.
• Skeptics believe that there is no such thing as human consciousness. They do not believe in the mind; only in the physical brain. In fact, skeptics believe that they themselves are mindless automatons who have no free will, no soul and no consciousness whatsoever.
And what evidence have religious believers produced to prove that we have souls that can survive death? Nothing that stands up to scientific study. We consider the mind to be a product of the physical brain. I’m a skeptic and I do not deny the possibility of free will.
• Skeptics believe that DEAD foods have exactly the same nutritional properties as LIVING foods (hilarious!).
Meaningless statement. All food we eat and digest by definition must be non-living, unless you want to try to swallow whole a live animal.
• Skeptics believe that pesticides on the crops are safe, genetically modified foods are safe, and that any chemical food additive approved by the FDA is also safe. There is no advantage to buying organic food, they claim.
Wrong.
• Skeptics believe that water has no role in human health other than basic hydration. Water is inert, they say, and the water your toilet is identical to water from a natural spring (assuming the chemical composition is the same, anyway).
Also wrong.
• Skeptics believe that all the phytochemicals and nutrients found in ALL plants are inert, having absolutely no benefit whatsoever for human health. (The ignorance of this intellectual position is breathtaking…)
Totally WRONG! This man is a damned LIAR!!!!!
• Skeptics believe that the moon has no influence over life on Earth. Farming in sync with moon cycles is just superstition, they say. (So why are the cycles of life for insects, animals and humans tied to the moon, then?)
• Skeptics believe that Mother Nature is incapable of synthesizing medicines. Only drug companies can synthesize medicines, they claim. (So why do they copy molecules from nature, then?)
No, we do not. One of the reasons we want ecosystems to be preserved is because we might find new medicines in plants of those ecosystems.
• Skeptics do not believe in intuition. They believe that mothers cannot “feel” the emotions of their infants at a distance. They write off all such “psychic” events as mere coincidence.
ANY substance consumed in excessive amounts is harmful, even WATER!
• Skeptics believe that human beings were born deficient in synthetic chemicals and that the role of pharmaceutical companies is to “restore” those deficiencies in humans by convincing them to swallow patented pills.
Any real skeptic would have done the opposite to prove his claims. It’s obvious you are making $#it up!
Skeptics aren’t consistently skeptical
If you really look closely at the beliefs of “skeptics,” you discover their skepticism is selective. They’re really skeptical about some things — like vitamins — but complete pushovers on others such as the scientific credibility of drug company studies.
Falsehood.
• Skeptics aren’t skeptical about medical journals. They believe whatever they read in those journals, even when much of it turns out to be complete science fraud.
Examples, please?
• Skeptics aren’t skeptical about the profit motive of the pharmaceutical industry. They believe that drug companies are motivated by goodwill, not by profits.
No, that’s another lie.
• Skeptics aren’t skeptical about the motivations and loyalties of the FDA. They will swallow, inject or use any product that’s FDA approved, without a single reasonable thought about the actual safety of those products.
So the FDA is not perfect. Nothing run by humans is. But if the FDA or a similar government agency didn’t exist, con artists would be putting all sorts of unapproved remedies out there that would empty people’s wallets and maybe even harm them physically while not helping them. The workings of the FDA are skepticism at work.
• Skeptics aren’t skeptical about the safety of synthetic chemicals used in the food supply. They just swallow whatever poisons the food companies dump into the foods.
Evidence for that?
• Skeptics aren’t skeptical about the enormous dangers of ionizing radiation from mammograms and CT scans. They have somehow convinced themselves that “early detection saves live” when, in reality, “early radiation causes cancer.”
Again, where is the evidence? We are bombarded by radiation all the time, actually. And mammograms and CT scans are only done every few months, maybe even less often.
• Skeptics aren’t skeptical about the mass-drugging agenda of the psychiatric industry which wants to diagnose everyone with some sort of “mental” disorder. The skeptics just go right along with it without asking a single commonsense question about whether the human brain really needs to be “treated” with a barrage of mind-altering chemicals.
More libel. Is this guy a Scientologist?
• Skeptics aren’t skeptical about mercury fillings. What harm could mercury possibly do anyway? If the ADA says they’re safe, they must be!
What evidence is there that mercury fillings are harmful? Sure, the pure element of mercury is poisonous, but not always in combination with other elements. Sodium and chlorine are both poisonous and explosive, but they combine to form table salt, which is stable and essential for life.
Again, you need to show experimental data showing the harm these substances do, instead of engaging in scare tactics.
Nature is bad, chemicals are good
Summing up the position of the “skeptics” is quite simple: Nature is bad, chemicals are good!
• Skeptics aren’t skeptical about the demolition-style collapse of the World Trade Center 7 building on September 11, 2001 — a building that was never hit by airplanes. This beautifully-orchestrated collapse of a hardened structure could only have been accomplished with precision explosives. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwSc…) Astonishingly, “skeptics” have little understanding of the laws of physics. Concrete-and-steel buildings don’t magically collapse in a perfect vertical demolition just because of a fire on one floor…
Yes, they can, if the building was of poor construction in the first place. Where could the precision explosives have come from? As Carl Sagan once said, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” THAT is skepticism!
• Skeptics aren’t skeptical about the safety of non-stick cookware, or the dangers of cleaning chemicals in the home, or the contamination of indoor air with chemical fumes from carpets, paints and particle board furniture. To the skeptics, the more chemicals, the better!
And all you people drinking green smoothies, and growing your own food, and getting natural sunlight, and taking care of your own health, and drinking herbal tea… well you’re all just fools, say the skeptics. You’re all just too stupid to understand “real” science. Because if you understood real science, you’d give up all those useless herbs and superfoods and healing vegetables and you’d be taking twenty different prescription medications instead.
I hope it’s fairly obvious to you by now that skeptics are the most misinformed people on the planet.
LIAR! Why should we make an absolute distinction between “natural” chemicals and artificial ones? That is a false dichotomy.
They are the easiest people to fool. They’re the easiest to hypnotize, too, because they lack independent thinking skills. Rather than thinking for themselves, they have joined a “club of skeptics” where they can be told what to think and then label themselves “intelligent” for following others in the group.
This is turning reality upside down, really.
These are the real “skeptics.” They are so incredibly isolated from reality that they don’t even believe in their body’s own ability to heal itself.
Gee, no wonder these skeptics are so misguided. They have the most pessimistic view possible. No wonder they seek to destroy themselves with chemicals — they don’t even think they’re alive to begin with! Skeptics are bent on self destruction. And they believe that when you die, the lights just go out and you cease to exist. Nothing happens after that. You’re just a mindless biological robot whose life has no meaning, no purpose, no higher self.
Hyperbole here, as well as appealing to religious based prejudice.
This is exactly what the skeptics believe. They’ll even tell you so themselves!
Realizing this, it makes it so much easier to debate with skeptics on any topic. Whatever they say, you just answer, “WHO is saying that? Are YOU, a conscious, free-thinking person with a mind and soul saying that, or are those words simply being automatically and robotically uttered from the mouth of a bag of bones and skin that has no mind and no soul?”
Realizing this, it makes it so much easier to debate with skeptics on any topic. Whatever they say, you just answer, “WHO is saying that? Are YOU, a conscious, free-thinking person with a mind and soul saying that, or are those words simply being automatically and robotically uttered from the mouth of a bag of bones and skin that has no mind and no soul?”
If they answer you honestly, they will have to admit that they believe they are nothing more than a robotic bag of bones and skin that is mindlessly uttering whatever nonsense happens to escape their mechanical lips. At that point, you’ve already won the debate because YOU have a soul, and THEY don’t. You’re arguing with a mindless robot.
Seriously. Think about this deeply. If you believe what the skeptics want you to believe (because they are always right, of course), then you must accept the fact that THEY have no consciousness. They are not really “alive.” They are just robotic biological machines. They are drones, in other words. And drones are not equal to a being of energy with a consciousness and a soul, inhabiting a human body with purpose and awareness.
Never argue with drones. You only waste your time and annoy the drone.
Ad hominem fallacy here. ‘Nuf said!
Skeptics… zombies… drones… different words for the same thing. Soulless, mindless, lacking consciousness and free will, having no awareness of the value of life… these are the skeptics arguing for vaccines, mammograms and chemotherapy today. They are agents of death who can only find solace in an industry of death — the industry of modern medicine.
All that i can say is that WE should trust NATURE!
As as a REAL skeptic, I DO trust nature. I just don’t trust liars like YOU!
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More evidence for this man’s idiocy is found here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/028019_skeptics_thinking.html
I swear, that bastard has NO SHAME! What he calls “magical” are merely things that science is quite used to dealing with. How dare he attack science and skepticism while misrepresenting them!
MIKE ADAMS, YOU ARE A FUCKING FRAUD!
Now I know why that loon really started his crusade against skeptics:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/01/sometimes_i_think_we_break_the.php
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/01/shorty_awards_fraud_the_evil_illuminati-.php
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/01/a_pyromaniac_in_a_field_of_straw_man_or.php
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