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Looks to me like AMA's "job" is to make money for itself and its greedy sheep. Advancing science, health and health care are often the opposite of what it practices.

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Because they have the lowest literacy rates and terrible primary and secondary education?

"Education creates liberals." - Rick Santorum (R-Penn.)

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Mercola is one of the worst. He's actually a menace. Anti-vaxxers refer to his websites as predictably as the sun rising.

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Joe Mercola is the One Quack to Quack Them All, and it's made him very rich indeed. Speaking of tanning beds, ol' Joe got his wealth tit stuck in the wringer with the Federal Trade Commission awhile back over using fraudulent claims to sell tanning beds. Of course, the refunds he agree to pay were just walkin' around money for a wealth huckster like ol' Joe.

And don't even get me started on The Doctors. That piece of shit is largely responsible for giving us anti-vax multi-millionaire Del Bigtree, who after producing a handful of shows for fraudy dirtball Phil McGraw moved on to The Doctors.

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Her brand is shallow ignorance, fed to bored women.

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I followed Dr. Mercola from his humble beginnings back in the 1990s early 2000s when newsletters were still a thing. His information at the time was "science-based". Then he got greedy and started peddling his own line of supplements. His book about the avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 strain (The Great Bird Flu Hoax) was a little over the top for me, and, over the next few years he slid into the quack, quack, quack territory and went behind a paywall... I sincerely believe based on his early videos compared to his more recent ones that something happened to him. He's not the same guy... it's like he's an alien in a skin suit.

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Ol' Joe sold that pauper's shotgun shack in 2016 and bought a much larger property in Florida that serves as his residence and the HQ of his fraud business.

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I don't think mosquitos are impressed by the placebo effect.

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My Principal Care Physician is Ben Casey.

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Maybe, or maybe he's just got an old face. My husband, poor thing, does (and the premature hair loss doesn't help). We were 28 and 29 and someone guessed his age at 40-45. Meanwhile the new security guard at school wanted my hall pass 2 years later.

Or maybe Oz's looks just reflect his disposition.

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Hmm. I am a man, therefore no menopause.

And yet, somehow, I look a lot older than I did, say, 40 years ago.

How can that be?

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What do you call your dicks?

The Aristocrats!

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If, as I hope, he manages to recover, his audience will evaporate and move on to the next antivaxxer.

Sucks to be him.

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Menopause didn't prevent this old lady from getting hit on while walking the dog this morning, just sayin'.

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Assistant Vikings coach is out on his ass. Good luck finding a job with the East Vladivostok Poots.

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At least he is pulling his, uhhhh, weight?

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