Shame on Orrin Hatch - The Patron Saint of Quack Medicine

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Ugh... I can't imagine how Orrin Hatch sleeps at night.

Lots of melatonin?!

[Jeff Lebowski]

Lots of melatonin?!

[Bo Diddley]

Lots of melatonin?!

My wife gave me a dose of melatonin once to help me sleep. No effect whatsoever. She swears by it.

[Pelado]

My wife gave me a dose of melatonin once to help me sleep. No effect whatsoever. She swears by it.

I turned the politics of this place upside down when I went the rounds with ER over the pediatrician-recommended nightly doses of melatonin that seem to help my 10-year-old get to sleep.

[Bo Diddley]

I turned the politics of this place upside down when I went the rounds with ER over the pediatrician-recommended nightly doses of melatonin that seem to help my 10-year-old get to sleep.

People get worked up. I don't take things too seriously on here.

[Northwestcoug]

I turned the politics of this place upside down when I went the rounds with ER over the pediatrician-recommended nightly doses of melatonin that seem to help my 10-year-old get to sleep.

I don't remember that. Do you have a blog post to plug that discussses said dust up in detail?

[Pelado]

I don't remember that. Do you have a blog post to plug that discussses said dust up in detail?

Not yet.

[Northwestcoug]

Not yet.

Do Keep me posted. In the meantime, might I suggest 'dearercougar.blogspot', or something like that?

[CJF]

I turned the politics of this place upside down when I went the rounds with ER over the pediatrician-recommended nightly doses of melatonin that seem to help my 10-year-old get to sleep.

It works for me. Very possible that it is all in my head, but it works. What doesn't put me to sleep is narcotic pain killers. They make me paranoid and cause my body to fight sleep. So maybe I'm just weird.

[wuapinmon]

Maybe it's all in my head, but, so far, Melatonin makes me really drowsy, almost like it's got Benadryl in it.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Two great articles debunking quack medicine and "natural medicine".

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...y-useless.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...doscience.html

Feel free to use them to troll your FB feed.

[Uncle Ted]

Two great articles debunking quack medicine and "natural medicine".

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...y-useless.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...doscience.html

Feel free to use them to troll your FB feed.

Good stuff, thanks for posting.

One of the comments to the first article:

I love the homeopathy/naturopathy devotees who throw Big Pharma and doctors at us like pieces of crap, all because of the $$$ that the industries make. LOL! Because homeopaths/naturopaths- and all their notions, potions.lotions and powders- are FREE? Neutraceuticals? OH, PLEASE. When multilevel marketing and infomercials are involved? Somebody's raking in big$$$$$$$$

I pointed this same thing out to one of my liberal, hippy friends that was trying to make a point about big pharma and they de-friended me on Facebook. I need to find some more hippy friends.

[The_Douger]

Two great articles debunking quack medicine and "natural medicine".

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...y-useless.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...doscience.html

Feel free to use them to troll your FB feed.

I loved this quote.

"From a scientific perspective, homeopathy is pure, unalloyed shitcrockery."

[Jeff Lebowski]

Doctors call for Columbia University to give Dr. Oz the boot for being a quack.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...-oz/?tid=sm_tw

"Dr. Oz has repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine, as well as baseless and relentless opposition to the genetic engineering of food crops," the letter states. "Worst of all, he has manifested an egregious lack of integrity by promoting quack treatments and cures in the interest of personal financial gain."

[ERCougar]

I turned the politics of this place upside down when I went the rounds with ER over the pediatrician-recommended nightly doses of melatonin that seem to help my 10-year-old get to sleep.

Hey wait a second! I don't remember this either.
Melatonin doesn't bug me much at all. My stance on it is pretty much the same as it always has been--it's cheap and safe, so I don't care much if people take it. It seems to have a few studies backing it, and it has a physiologic basis, so it might work, i guess. The problem is, you have no idea if what you're taking has any actual, you know, melatonin in it. Again...many thanks to Orrin Hatch.