Dr. Mercola interviews Ron Paul!

[AgentOrange]

something that pharmaceutical companies have no profit motive in as vaccines prevent disease and account for miniscule profits.

I am not anti-vaccine, I think they do much more good than they do harm.

However, vaccines are a HUGE profit maker for pharmaceutical companies. They have little advertising overhead with vaccines, thanks to our government mandataing them. Plus, unlike with their other pesky drugs, pharmaceutical companies are 100% protected from liability concerning vaccines, thanks to us taxpayers who have been assigned the liability payments by out government. Pharmaceutical companies have been shown to cover up side effects and adverse reactions--there is every reason to think they would do the same, given the huge profits they make with vaccines.

 

[Brennon]

I am not anti-vaccine, I think they do much more good than they do harm.

However, vaccines are a HUGE profit maker for pharmaceutical companies. They have little advertising overhead with vaccines, thanks to our government mandataing them. Plus, unlike with their other pesky drugs, pharmaceutical companies are 100% protected from liability concerning vaccines, thanks to us taxpayers who have been assigned the liability payments by out government. Pharmaceutical companies have been shown to cover up side effects and adverse reactions--there is every reason to think they would do the same, given the huge profits they make with vaccines.

Here's a good article on vaccination shortages

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/504779

No one really wants to make them anymore to be honest with you. R&D is too high and profits too low. There's a lot more money to be made in a new drug that reduces cholesterol than one that prevents the flu. Sure, there's some money to be made, but it's pretty trivial comparatively speaking.

 

[RonPaulFever]

I'd rather him associate with Alex Jones.

Are you crazy? Do you know how many people follow Dr. Mercola?

 

[Brennon]

Are you crazy? Do you know how many people follow Dr. Mercola?

I can see it now... Fox News Headline: Ron Paul Wants Children to Have Polio, Believes HIV Harmless.

Fox news was not flattering in their interview of Mercola.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Mercola is regarded as a quack by nearly every doctor in the industry.

Paul is regarded as a kook by nearly every politician in Washington.

 

[Cleaner44]

Dr. Mercola brings even more people to Ron Paul. I am very glad to have him on board. My wife that does not care much for politics is a fan of Dr. Mercola and these people are an ally to Ron Paul. Much like home schoolers.

 

[linusPAULing]

I cannot trust Mercola, because he has a rabid anti-vegetarian bias. It amounts to no more than prejudice -- so I cannot trust anything he says if he refuses to admit that it is not unhealthy, because it is a simple fact of the matter that it is not unhealthy. I don't even ask that he go as far as to call it 'healthy' -- merely going as far as to admit that it is 'not unhealthy' is good enough for me, but instead he ferociously attacks it without basis. This is enough to prove to me that he has an unscientific bias against vegetarianism, and is instead arguing emotionally against it out of his own preference.

I was one of Mercola's patients and he told me personally that among his most ill patients the vegetarians had the worst recovery rates. His claim was that the trend was impossible to ignore.

You have to realize how ill some of his patients are. People would be heartbroken just spending a day in his lobby viewing first hand some of these patients' conditions.

It is easier than you may think to monitor how dramatic the influence of diet can be on these seriously ill folks. And again, witnessing the difference in recovery rates of these seriously ill vegetarian patients vs the seriously ill non-vegetarian patients, according to Mercola, was dramatic.

He has also experimented his entire adult life with his own diet. He claims that years ago he attempted a high fruit diet and his triglycerides went through the roof. And now apparently there are studies demonstrating that indeed high fructose (a common sugar in fruit) diets contribute to high triglycerides.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

I can see it now... Fox News Headline: Ron Paul Wants Children to Have Polio, Believes HIV Harmless.

Fox news was not flattering in their interview of Mercola.

This is absolutely ludicrous. For one, the media doesn't say Ron Paul believes those things if he doesn't say it. They're not going to go off the fact that Dr. Mercola likes him and say that Ron Paul automatically agrees with all his views. I don't care how biased you think they are, they're not that bad at journalism. Secondly, I doubt people care that much about which doctors Ron Paul associates with. It really is of no concern to most people what his personal beliefs about health are.

That said, I don't think it would hurt him that much to associate with Alex Jones either. However, I can see where the concern is because it has more to do with how he would govern than anything he believes about personal health does. People get a more negative impression of someone who speaks out against government than someone who simply tries to make people healthy, albeit in unconventional ways. Simply associating with him is not going to mean anything, though. People are not going to care about that.

Also, pretty much nobody really knows enough about Dr. Mercola to care. He's not a big name in politics or in any facet of national life. He doesn't garner national attention or broadcast his beliefs to people who don't want to listen. Alex Jones, on the other hand, is shouting at the top of his lungs everywhere he goes doing interviews out in public and causing a ruckus at events while streaming his thoughts live on his radio program. Dr. Mercola doesn't do any of those things. Trust me, associating with Dr. Mercola will NOT hurt him any more than associating with Alex Jones. I really don't think going on Jones' program is going to hurt him either, unless the media tries to make a big deal out of it. I don't think they want to give Alex that much attention, though. Most people simply don't care who interviews Ron Paul.

 

[Yieu]

I don't believe the words you wrote are true, and even if they were it is insufficient evidence. If you read what he writes, it is pretty clear that he is merely prejudice against vegetarians because he has a bias against it. I skimmed a few articles by him, and I did not sense that he had a real reason to be against vegetarians -- he used words that appeared to show he had an emotional bias against it for personal reasons. He was rather lashing out violently using degrading language. That is an emotional bias.

The fact of the matter is that anyone can go without meat and they won't be less healthy, or they can go with meat and not be less healthy. I'm not going to tell you what to eat, and I won't let him tell me either. Whether to eat meat is a personal choice that we all make due to our philosophical and/or religious beliefs. Anyone can chose to eat meat, and that is fine, they will not be less healthy for it. Anyone can chose to not eat meat, and that is fine, they will not be less healthy for it.

For me, it is a religious issue, so even if abstaining from flesh was less healthy I would abstain. But it is not less healthy. And that is an important point to understand. Once that point is understood, it is very easy to see that someone who makes an emotional attack against abstaining is speaking out of prejudicial bias and not science.

I do not want to get into a back and forth over this, and I would prefer to not delve into this topic further. I merely wanted to point out the fact that abstaining from flesh is not less healthy, and the fact that he makes emotionally charged arguments against it is a big clue that not everything he says is true.

 

[Deborah K]

Sigh...look... I'm not going to throw out insults about tin foil hats. That said, doctors aren't out there to extort money from you and hide medical cures from the public. Even Ron Paul has referred to raw milk as 'crazy'. While I support an individual's right to ingest whatever crazy concoction he or she chooses, it doesn't make it any less ridiculous.

To answer your question, six years of higher education and thousands of hours reading medical journals are why I choose not to listen to Mercola.

"Many Americans have done their own research and come to the conclusion that unpasteurized milk is healthier than pasteurized milk," said Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who recently introduced legislation to allow the sale of raw milk products between states.

http://www.chron.com/news/nation-wo...oes-to-bat-for-raw-milk-consumers-1611303.php

 

[BrendenR]

Not sure if anyone has posted this...but as of right now:

Posted By Dr. Mercola | August 28 2011 | 104,093 views

 

[Oddone]

This was posted back on July 7, 2011. Youtube shows 13,600 views at this time. Maybe he didn't post it until recently on his blog, or reposted it.

 

[Lymeade-Lady]

It was just in his e-mail newsletter that we got today.

 

[Brennon]

http://www.chron.com/news/nation-wo...oes-to-bat-for-raw-milk-consumers-1611303.php

You had me worried until I actually read the article. I was thinking he was actually endorsing raw milk rather than simply stating some people choose to consume it. After all these years of supporting and donating to Paul, I'd hate to have to vote third party.

 

[FSP-Rebel]

This has gotten over 113k views.

 

[Danke]

You had me worried until I actually read the article. I was thinking he was actually endorsing raw milk rather than simply stating some people choose to consume it. After all these years of supporting and donating to Paul, I'd hate to have to vote third party.

OMG! If RP had endorsed raw milk, I'd jump ship too. Totally!

 

[AggieforPaul]

I've heard from different articles that raw milk both causes Crohn's disease, and helps send it into remission.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

You had me worried until I actually read the article. I was thinking he was actually endorsing raw milk rather than simply stating some people choose to consume it. After all these years of supporting and donating to Paul, I'd hate to have to vote third party.

Are you seriously saying that someone thinking raw milk is good for you would completely change your mind about whether or not that person should be president? Seriously?

 

[Deborah K]

You had me worried until I actually read the article. I was thinking he was actually endorsing raw milk rather than simply stating some people choose to consume it. After all these years of supporting and donating to Paul, I'd hate to have to vote third party.

Dr. Paul believes, as do I, that people have a right to make their own choices and that it is not the govt's role to protect people from themselves. The issue isn't really about whether raw milk is dangerous or healthy. It's about allowing people to do their own research, make their own decisions, and accept responsibility thereof.

If rawmilk is your litmus test, then perhaps you should rethink why you are a supporter of Ron's.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Are you crazy? Do you know how many people follow Dr. Mercola?

lol. No kidding. Mercola's website is the #1 alternative medicine website in existence.