Re: Amish Salve-maker in Jail, Facing Federal Prison
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 6:09 am
Exactly what snake oil requires a prescription?
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i tend to be sensitive to .. lots of things, i'm not alone. i can't use most products with perfumes, like lotions, etc. but, this extends to prescription meds, too. lipitor caused me to develop erythema nodosum, it took months to be rid of it. i was fortunate, the doctor warned it could take a year or two.Josh wrote:Exactly what snake oil requires a prescription?
Some prescriptions of yesteryear's mainstream medicine. And I expect the cycle continues, so that some of today's will be eventually banned.Josh wrote:Exactly what snake oil requires a prescription?
The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.Josh wrote:I think truth objectively exists, so we can make a statement like "drinking bottled raw petroleum doesn't cure a variety of illnesses". And as Christians the truth is important to us.
Submission to the government is important too. So if they tell me something unreasonable, I do my best to submit to it, just like we expect a wife to do for her husband.
For some reason some of us plain folk are really good at the latter part (wives submitting to husbands) but really bad at the former part (submitting to the government when doing so gets in the way of profit).
already happening, Joy.Joy wrote:Some prescriptions of yesteryear's mainstream medicine. And I expect the cycle continues, so that some of today's will be eventually banned.Josh wrote:Exactly what snake oil requires a prescription?
As a child I was prescribed a mercury lotion for skin fungus. Not good.
What else could we do? The only other option is more government regulation. Pharma is already very heavily regulated, to the point researching new drugs and bringing them to market costs billions of dollars.temporal1 wrote:already happening, Joy.
today, stats are kept on damage+death, class action lawsuits follow.
it seems drug companies are like credit card companies: they factor in their potential financial loss, and just go ahead and distribute. legally, of course.
i have no answers. i just try to keep my eyes open when trying anything new, OTC, or Rx.Josh wrote:What else could we do? The only other option is more government regulation. Pharma is already very heavily regulated, to the point researching new drugs and bringing them to market costs billions of dollars.temporal1 wrote:already happening, Joy.
today, stats are kept on damage+death, class action lawsuits follow.
it seems drug companies are like credit card companies: they factor in their potential financial loss, and just go ahead and distribute. legally, of course.
Clearly you haven't read their quotes, and the doctors listed who endorse each product... Your wish is a sound principle, imho, although certainly a little general deregulation wouldn't hurt either in many areas.On a side note I wish they would go after some of the MLM health products that are out there with the same amount of diligence.
i'm not sure anyone is suggesting no regulations?appleman2006 wrote:I imagine that Amish man is feeling persecuted for being a small businessman and he just wants to be left alone to do his own thing which he thinks will never actually hurt anybody.
But here is the thing. If there were no regulations in these areas I am betting that his product would barely see the light of day as there would be tons of large companies doing something similar to what he his doing. In fact the market would probably be so full of these products that people would hardly notice his. Or the alternative may have happened which is just as likely if not more so.
The sheer volume of these products on the market would of already either proved that they do not really work or in some cases have even harmed people and so people may have learned to be really leery of this type of thing.
If you have a natural alternative health product that really is as great as you say it is then go through the regular legal means of marketing it. And if it really does work you will be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams if that is what you dream about. If what you dream about is just helping people you will have the ability to actually help far more people than you do now.
There are no short cuts to success and I am not sure that there should be.
On a side note I wish they would go after some of the MLM health products that are out there with the same amount of diligence.
Running for cover and no I am not sorry for saying it.