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patonthebach posted:I almost bought childrens medicine with no active ingredients because of this poo poo. My child is sick, gently caress your voodoo bullshit. I still can't believe a major chain carries this stuff. If people actually boycotted stuff that mattered you would think we'd all be up in arms against this homeopathic poo poo being sold in stores. Extremely this. If it's 11 at night and I'm in a Shoppers looking for something, anything, that will get my kid to stop screaming I don't have the ability to check every bottle for active ingredients or lack thereof. If there are pictures of that poor kid so stiff from infection that he had to be laid in the backseat of the car, homeopathic companies should have to put it on their packaging like the warnings on cigarettes.
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Enforcing actual regulations on supplements and making the prove they contain the advertised ingredients would just be big pharma using regulatory capture to smash the little guy. The tiny little guy that is the supplements industry.
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it was so nice to see Adrian Dix, the BC NDP health minister, giving those snake oil fucks the side eye maybe if we elect an NDP federal government, we might begin to see some progress on that front
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May 16, 2018 20:55
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If you want to see how completely hosed the supplement industry is watch "Bigger, Stronger, Faster". Takes place in the States but it all works the same here.
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May 16, 2018 21:03
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Baronjutter posted:Enforcing actual regulations on supplements and making the prove they contain the advertised ingredients would just be big pharma using regulatory capture to smash the little guy. The tiny little guy that is the supplements industry. Won't someone please think of the small family businesses and the small family hedge funds that own them 
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May 16, 2018 21:04
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As a baby step I'd like them to just move that garbage to its own section away from real medicine. Put it over with the wall of supplements or something.
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May 16, 2018 21:18
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Can't wait till 90% of the shelf space in Shoppes is taken up by homeopathic "remedies" and legal weed. Better yet I can't wait till somebody starts selling homeopathic weed. It totally cures your nausea, indigestion, anxiety, insomnia, loss of appetite and everything else because it remembers the THC molecules!
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May 16, 2018 22:00
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Does Shoppers sell healing crystals yet? I've had people i used to think were functional adults suggest healing crystals.
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May 16, 2018 22:10
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I think I saw a display of Himalayan Salt Lamps in the seasonal section of my local Shoppers recently Edit: Keep in mind Shopper's is now pretty much just a 24-hour extension of Loblaws nowand they are just hocking whatever poo poo is convenient and makes them money. DariusLikewise fucked around with this message at 22:37 on May 16, 2018 |
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May 16, 2018 22:31
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Powershift posted:Does Shoppers sell healing crystals yet? I had my highly regarded family doctor tell me to get one and that people need to stop thinking about health strictly within the tiny little box of "science" it's been forced into. I thought his office was covered in geodes and poo poo because he was just into geology. Nope, he explained it was to foster healing energy within the space. Also about 50% of the nurses I've interacted with at hospitals are vocally supportive of homeopathy and "natural cures" It's scary out there 
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Like, natural poo poo isn't always bad. Aloe vera is really good for burns, and anecdotally whenever I've had a cold taking a shitload of echinacea has always helped it take less time to heal. But at the same time, I always take cold medication, because it's also designed to help, and this loving idea that modern medicine should be ignored because natural remedies are better can go gently caress off. It's a giant exacerbation of the anti-vaxxer movement, and helps absolutely no one, because modern medicine is the reason our dumb asses manage to make it to 80+ these days instead of dying as infants or in childbirth like people used to.
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May 16, 2018 23:05
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Also anyone who believes in healing crystals deserves to die of an easily curable illness.
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May 16, 2018 23:06
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HookShot posted:Also anyone who believes in healing crystals needs to piss out a kidney stone
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HookShot posted:Like, natural poo poo isn't always bad. Aloe vera is really good for burns, and anecdotally whenever I've had a cold taking a shitload of echinacea has always helped it take less time to heal. That's not the natural poo poo that everyone is harping on. Aloe Vera and Echinacea are both scientifically proven to be effective. It's poo poo like this https://www1.shoppersdrugmart.ca/en/health-and-pharmacy/everyday-medicines-and-first-aid/fever-and-pain-relief/details/774016772380 https://www1.shoppersdrugmart.ca/en/Health-And-Pharmacy/Everyday-Medicines-And-First-Aid/Cough-Cold-And-Flu/details/774016648968
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Helsing posted:Can't wait till 90% of the shelf space in Shoppes is taken up by homeopathic "remedies" and legal weed. It totally does cure some or all these things in people though?
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DariusLikewise posted:That's not the natural poo poo that everyone is harping on. Aloe Vera and Echinacea are both scientifically proven to be effective. It's poo poo like this why the gently caress are they selling that next to the childrens benadryl. that poo poo should be illegal.
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May 16, 2018 23:20
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Reince Penis posted:It totally does cure some or all these things in people though? Not if you know what homeopathy means
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Arivia posted:why the gently caress are they selling that next to the childrens benadryl. that poo poo should be illegal. Don't worry the magical memory water is "non-drowsy".
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mashed_penguin posted:Don't worry the magical memory water is "non-drowsy". drowsy's a loving feature for a kid with a cold. they'll cry less and rest more.
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May 16, 2018 23:26
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Arivia posted:This is why you only buy Buckley's. It tastes horrible but it has actual ingredients and you can taste them. New slogan needs work.
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May 16, 2018 23:29
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My wife bought two of those salt lamps. Doesn't seem to cure gluten intolerance.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:My wife bought two of those salt lamps. Doesn't seem to cure gluten intolerance. Maybe she's not using them right. You gotta get them aaaaaaaall the way up your rear end, so you can't even see the light anymore.
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May 16, 2018 23:45
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DariusLikewise posted:I think I saw a display of Himalayan Salt Lamps in the seasonal section of my local Shoppers recently Fun thing about that, Loblaws is prioritizing shoppers over their own stores in deliveries, so we're constantly being shorted on stuff! Also their Ajax wearhouse must be staffed by Trumps legal team as it is so incompetent right now. Deliveries getting lost, coming in after stores close, all kinds of fun poo poo.
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May 16, 2018 23:52
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I'm remembering Shoppers selling those magnetic healing magical woo bracelets back at least a decade ago (if not still).
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May 17, 2018 00:06
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The term for alternative remedies that work is "medicine".
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Arivia posted:This is why you only buy Buckley's. It tastes horrible but it has actual ingredients and you can taste them. Yeah, except if you look, the active ingredients in Buckley's are ammonium carbonate, potassium bicarbonate, menthol, and camphor. So, baker's ammonia, club soda, peppermint, and mothballs.
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May 17, 2018 01:11
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DariusLikewise posted:That's not the natural poo poo that everyone is harping on. Aloe Vera and Echinacea are both scientifically proven to be effective. It's poo poo like this Holy poo poo this should be illegal 
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May 17, 2018 01:34
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VICE and the Canadian Anti-Hate Network have a piece on Thunder Bay's Nazi barista.
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infernal machines posted:VICE and the Canadian Anti-Hate Network have a piece on Thunder Bay's Nazi barista. Hahah, these guys are so pathetic quote:"I am a father of 3, an entrepreneur, a volunteer firefighter, I work-out, commute to work, manage employees and a household, cut and chop wood for my wood stoves, keep a flock of chickens, have a dog, and train my boy to target shoot, spend quality time with my daughters, and somehow I still find time to shitpost. I came from a single-mother household. I never had an ‘easy job’ handed to me. I graduated with 50k of student loan debt which I paid off with hard labour in under 3 years," he wrote on the 504um in April 2017.
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HookShot posted:Holy poo poo this should be illegal I love it, it's 98% performance art quote:We skeptics make fun of homeopaths for using ridiculous ingredients in their remedies and then diluting them to the point where there isn’t even any ingredient left. However, the story behind Oscillo is even more bizarre than the usual homeopath quackery. In 1925, the French doctor Joseph Roy coined the term “Oscillococcinum” for small particles that he could see wriggling around in blood samples from sufferers of the Spanish ‘flu. He went off and looked at the blood of patients suffering from other diseases and found that he could see the same small creatures moving in those samples, too. He decided, based on this, that he had discovered THE causative agent of all disease. What he probably found were small bubbles or particles of dust exhibiting Brownian motion. We’ll probably never know…
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James Baud posted:I'm on the parents' side on that one, quite honestly. I know I'm late but it sounds like you had some serious brain swelling as a kid.
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https://twitter.com/Tom_Parkin_/status/996923032517083141 Never 👏 support 👏 liberals 👏
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THC posted:https://twitter.com/Tom_Parkin_/status/996923032517083141 No poo poo. A leopard don't change its shorts. But seriously, an OPC minority propped up by the OLP is the most likely outcome here.
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You guys are triggering me with naturals/supplements chat. Just going to point out that at a conference this past weekend some doctors revealed that all brands of melatonin they tested were 80% or more impurities. Our regulation of naturals and naturopaths is no better than the USA.
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infernal machines posted:VICE and the Canadian Anti-Hate Network have a piece on Thunder Bay's Nazi barista. Espresso canuck is the new milkshake duck?
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https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/996839592727900160 justin is... good?
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THC posted:https://twitter.com/Tom_Parkin_/status/996923032517083141 Strategic voting!
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THC posted:https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/996839592727900160 Eh. It's a very misleading statement. Violence at the Gaza Strip is intentionally vague and wishy-washy.
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