Penn & Teller Bullshit! Season 1, Episode 2 :Alternative Medicine (1/3)

Penn & Teller doin what they do best: exposing bullshit

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25 Responses to “Penn & Teller Bullshit! Season 1, Episode 2 :Alternative Medicine (1/3)”

  1. ViolentFactor1928 on April 24th, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    reflexology is just …
    reflexology is just a nice and relaxing foot massage.

  2. AsgardProductionsSE on April 24th, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    I can stab feets to …
    I can stab feets to..

  3. @drunkenstooge

    ” …
    @drunkenstooge

    “Chiropractors are quacks. Unlike MDs, nothing they do is based on science. Don’t waste you time or money”

    Come on, you have to admit that at least 1% of chriopractors are good, honest hardorking people that admit that its limited just to treating back pain.
    the other 98% should be lit on fire and thrown in a river.

  4. kyandsky4ever on April 24th, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    aspergers, eh? …
    aspergers, eh? small world…. wanna be friends?

  5. Chiropractic does …
    Chiropractic does help legitimate back and neck problems. They even stated this in the video. It’s all the other claims that are bogus and unproven. My Chiropractor has gone to school for 10 years to be a chiropractor and has still has to do continuing education. He doesnt drive a Porsche he drives an 8 year old VW Passat. This episode is BS for not presenting the whole truth.

  6. drunkenstooge on April 24th, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    Chiropractors are …
    Chiropractors are quacks. Unlike MDs, nothing they do is based on science. Don’t waste you time or money. They’ll just you up even more.

  7. @golcynski

    ” Not …
    @golcynski

    ” Not methyl and ethyl mercury are two different things.”

    Methyl mercury is dangerous. Ethyl mercury isnt. Test subjects have been given doses THOUSANDS of times more than whats in the shot, and turned out fine.

    You sound like you have a grade school education. I am using things I learned in grade 9.

  8. @golcynski

    “I …
    @golcynski

    “I guess your “Advanced Degrees” didn’t teach you that eating is different than injecting straight into bloodstream. ”

    Yes, they did. But that doesnt mean you cant have a same amount injected into your bloodstream. You dont die from the vaccine for the same reason you dont die from the salt solution they hydrate you with.

    “Aluminum is the 3rd most abundant element on earth…”

    That has NOTHING to do with how much our bodies need. You are shockingly stupid.

  9. @golcynski

    “These …
    @golcynski

    “These persistent toxins like Mercury, Lead, Fluoride, can do much damage to your body”

    you are comparing things with two different charachteristics. Its like saying “this house is made out of wood, and it burnt down. This proves that the concrete house can also burn down”.

    Mercury, lead and flouride DO NOT catalyze, and even if it did, your body would take it out before it did significgant damage.

  10. @golcynski

    “You …
    @golcynski

    “You take amount of mercury that kills 1% of test subjects,
    Mix it with amount of Lead that kills 1% of test subjects,
    = result is that 100% of test subjects die”

    First of all, you pulled that statistic out of your ass. Two, even if it did significgantly increase, it still wouldnt matter if you were at a stage where doses thousands of times larger killed NONE of the test subject, as the amounts would far too small.

  11. @golcynski

    ” …
    @golcynski

    ” You’ve just answer it, hepatitis was easy to pick up”

    True, but if you are areas with vaccination programs dont have many cases.

    “‘ve listened to Dr. Wakefield and he even openly invited Dr. Offit for a debate”

    He probably declined for the same reason world renowned biologists dont accept debate offers from televangelists.

  12. @golcynski

    “Why …
    @golcynski

    “Why do monkeys have HIV virus”

    Because it originated in monkeys. It got to us via a mutation. I think its obvious how it went to monkeys to humans.

    “Why does polio vaccine spread polio”

    I am not going to even bother googling your thing. The reason I know the polio vaccine is OK is because countries that had vaccination programs, have very, VERY few cases of polio.
    If you are right, its probably in the same category as the smallpox vaccine, dangerous but the lesser of two evils.

  13. @boonw You’ve just …
    @boonw You’ve just answer it, hepatitis was easy to pick up, so it wasn’t the vaccine that change it, it was the mode of transmission that changed.

    Nobody wants any diseases neither do I, but until we have real double blind placebo studies on vaccines we don’t know, for a long term especially.

    I’ve listened to Dr. Wakefield and he even openly invited Dr. Offit for a debate, and Dr. Offit declined, so much for Dr. Offit support of vaccines, when faced with real facts.

  14. @boonw I guess your …
    @boonw I guess your “Advanced Degrees” didn’t teach you that eating is different than injecting straight into bloodstream. I know you’ll say that Aluminum is the 3rd most abundant element on earth, that is why our bodies don’t absorb it because they don’t need it. Same with elemental Mercury, your body will not digest it, very little will get absorbed. Not methyl and ethyl mercury are two different things.

  15. @boonw Your are …
    @boonw Your are getting carried away and angry, what is the intrinsic quality that makes fluoride so smart as to only go to your teeth when you ingest it. you had advanced chemistry you should know how fluoride is able to target only teeth and leave your brain and thyroid alone.

    As if you didn’t know corn syrup is in everything, at gas station, close to 100% products sold contain corn syrup, every packaged foot item with 95% percent certainty contains corn syrup. So yes its in everything.

  16. @golcynski

    “We …
    @golcynski

    “We simply don’t know full impact vaccines can have on our bodies, because there are no studies like that.”

    We have done it with people who mostly are not identical twins. If it does cause problems, one side should be statistically higher than the other in terms of disseases.

    Besides, why trust other medicines like ASPRIN, or INSULIN, or PENECILIN. After all, they were all tested and deemed safe using the same methods.

  17. @golcynski

    ” …
    @golcynski

    “Without such experiment how can they tell us vaccines are safe and effective.”

    We do have those, and they show up as vaccines being harmless. For some reason people like to cite an extremely small study that was discredited when it was found the doctor was falsifying results to get bribe money from a lawyer wanting to sue vaccine makers.

    But let me ask you this? Do you think living in a world with smallpox and polio would be better? How about when hepatitis was easy to pick up?

  18. @golcynski

    ” …
    @golcynski

    ” there are adjuvants aluminum salts”

    You get a higher dose from a canned soda.

    “I ask doctors why my son stopped talking after vaccinations”

    Well, I have aspergers syndrome, and I took a ton of vaccines. But guess what? Why do all my freinds who took vaccines not have it? Why did you blame vaccines out of everything your son did in that time period? Why did you not blame walking, or eating his favorite dish, or hell, playing outside (there is all kinds of nasty in dirt)?

  19. @golcynski

    “Far …
    @golcynski

    “Far greater service to populace would be to ban Corn Syrup products, yet no one is doing that. ”

    Maybe you should ban cars, because cars kill people. Maybe you should ban beef, because beef kills people. Corn syrup is OK in moderation. Unless you eat corn syrup with everything, you should be OK.

  20. @boonw I too had …
    @boonw I too had advanced chemistry, biology and even Quantum Mechanics.

    How do animals or people build tooth enamel when they have no access to Fluoride, gee maybe there is something else that builds it, like Calcium.

    Also there are many flavors of fluoride the Calcium fluoride that is naturally occuring is different than Sodium Fluoride they add in water.

  21. @golcynski

    ” you …
    @golcynski

    ” you can’t legally dump any Fluoride into lakes and rivers legally because its toxic to fish”

    You cant legally dump salt into lakes, or bleach, or medicines into lakes. Flouride is safe for the same reason the other things were safe. THE CONCENTRATIONS ARE TOO LOW TO MATTER.
    For example, eat a small packet of salt? Now eat a plate. Using your logic, because salt is poisonous at the plate level, you can determine its dangerous in any other situation.

  22. @boonw Yes

    You …
    @boonw Yes

    You take amount of mercury that kills 1% of test subjects,
    Mix it with amount of Lead that kills 1% of test subjects,
    = result is that 100% of test subjects die

    The synergistic effects of poisons can magnify their toxicities many many times.

    Water in large amounts toxic because it can dilute your electrolytes,

    Sand in Engine is always toxic no matter what the amount? How do you disprove that? Mercury, Fluride Lead, etc, are “SAND IN THE ENGINE” with NO SAFE LIMIT

  23. @golcynski

    “f …
    @golcynski

    “f fluoride is good for your teeth why do we ingest it, you don’t swallow sunscreen to go on your skin do you?”

    Sunscreen blocks sun from getting on your skin, thats why you put it on your skin. Flouride needs to get on your teeth… all the time in order to keep it healthy. You drink water everyday, and when you drink it, you put it in your mouth. Are you getting the picture?
    Just be glad you live in a country that has water that will make you sick.

  24. @golcynski

    “how …
    @golcynski

    “how do you control the dose”

    Make it so the water would kill you far before the flouride even has an effect.

    “Where do they get such vast quantities of Fluoride”

    Where do they get such quantities of aluminum for can? or salt for the dinner table? Where do they get such quantities of alchohol for medicine and booze?
    You see whats wrong with your statement? You dont hold the same standards up to anything else.

  25. @boonw Why did …
    @boonw Why did scarlet fever go away without vaccinations.

    Why was polio vaccine made with Monkey Kidney tissue
    Why do monkeys have HIV virus
    How do you filter HIV when making vaccine, when you don’t even know it exists

    Isn’t HIV the cause of AIDS in people, how did HIV virus get into millions of people (vacccine)

    Why does polio vaccine spread polio: GOOGLE: staten island polio million

    Man got $22.5mil because he contracted Polio from his vaccinated daughter, how many more did the same…

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