Bowl twice a week to stay in good health, but never use house balls!
For a significant part of my life, I worked in the OTC pharmaceutical industry. For almost ten years, I worked for one of the largest manufacturers of vitamins and nutritional supplements. If you think that the FDA is not involved in monitoring the manufacturing of these products, you have no idea of what you're talking. I still remember the electric chaos that would spread throughout all of the buildings in that company when the FDA "dropped in" for a surprise inspection. I don't think that any one thing has led to the sorry state that our health care is currently in, but surely allowing companies to advertise prescription drugs on television so that you can "request" them from your doctor, along with the ads for attorneys offering to help you to sue some pharmaceutical company if you suffered from some side effect of a drug that was clearly marked on the packaging, both have something to do with it. And, as much as I hate to agree with Aslan, I do think that our societies blind reliance on plastic packaging has had a tremendous detrimental effect on our overall health as a society.
Bowl twice a week to stay in good health, but never use house balls!
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Don't walk on Thin Ice!
I also worked for 2 different pharmaceutical companies in my past lives. One of them made a powder from Human blood products that could be used to coagulate blood during a trauma situation. The other actually manufactured the flu vaccine.Originally Posted by RobLV1
In the 2nd case, pre-Avian flu outbreak, the company actually was inspected and cited by the FDA because the ceiling of the filtration building needed some work and despite the remote chance/risk, the FDA felt that the roof 'could' end up leading to possible contamination of the vaccine...so they demanded that it be fixed within a certain time period (a year or something). The company made very little money on the flu vaccine, they almost made it for cost as a public service, and it was a very long and labor intensive process. So, they decided to close down the manufacturing of it rather than make the repairs. Fast forward a handful of years and we had the big Avian flu outbreak and swine flu outbreak and everyone was clamoring for flu vaccine from all over the World and suddenly it became profitable to make...but I doubt that facility went back to making it.
But yes, the FDA is no joke. They DO inspect and it is NOT pleasant. And while they can be easily bought off with multi-million dollar donations to this politician or that politician...they are not just arbitrarily "in bed with" the pharmaceutical industry.
Every weekend on AM radio I get to hear televangalists predicting the end of the world, mortage brokers trying to get you to pay them a bunch of money to refinance your loan, cosmetic "miracles" for your skin, and what new supplement you NEED to be using to extend your life another 20 years. And at night, a guy comes on and talks about the "truth" regarding Aliens and the galaxy. I always wonder who buys into all that snake oil nonsense...now I know of at least one!
And since Iceman likes links...I figured he'd like to know his hero made the top of the "Top 4 Quacks": http://www.alternet.org/personal-hea...-about-science
What a day for a day-dream!
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Don't walk on Thin Ice!
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Don't walk on Thin Ice!
Would love to hear more about this from your perspective. Seriously.
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Last edited by MICHAEL; 09-05-2015 at 11:57 AM.
Don't walk on Thin Ice!
This reminds of the guy I saw on the news that claimed modern dentistry was a waste of money and the root of all kinds of problems...so he bought some dental tools and somehow replaced his teeth with rocks he found in his driveway.
Sounds a little too far fetched?? Something that not even Ice would buy into?? Google it.
Related Note: One thing I find unnerving about our current social/political situation in the US is that we've completely abandoned Nationalism and have went all the way to the other side of the spectrum...essentially a Beurocratic Monarchy. Iceman is one of many, educated adults, that clings tightly to a belief that if it's in any way related to the government, then it must be a lie or a trick or a conspiracy. I'm not saying skepticism of a person's government isn't right...I think to some degree it's almost a responsibility...but Iceman refuses to see value in the FDA like an Athiest refuses to see any good that as ever come from religion. Like people that don't think Dinasaurs existed or that global warming is actually a 'thing' or that the holocaust actually happened or that we ever landed on the moon or think that September 11th was an inside job.
Those kinda people used to be outliers...conspiracy theorists if you will. Yet now, even non-conspiracy...just simple politics. I talk to some co-workers and state that the best system, if we could make it work, for healthcare, would be a single-payer system. I give solid reasons why. I admit there would also be drawbacks and possible problems. But the whole time...no matter ho convinving the argument...they just simply respond, "Even if that's the best option, I don't trust the government to actually do it right. They never do anything right." To me, that makes no sense. In the short < 250 year history of the country...the government has went from a colony of a foreign power, to arguably the most dominant civilation in the history of the World. It obviously has done LOTS of stuff right!!! Granted, no group of people will ever be perfect and mistakes are made....but the idea that you simply get rid of every government thing ever created...and suddenly the country would be happier and healthier....there's very little evidence such a thing could work...and a mountain of evidence it would fail. Nobody understands history. They claim the Department of X is corrupt and unnecessary...but they never answer the question, "why did we create that in the first place?" USUALLY...if ya look back to BEFORE there was a Department of X.....you'd see that there were some rather serious problems or a significant event....that made that Department a good idea.
It's kinda sad if ya think about it...that a government OF the people is so unpopular WITH the people. Especially when you take every country in the World...and randomly pick out a name....and I can almost GUARANTEE...not quite...but I'm talking high, high % chance....that if you had a choice of governments...you'd take the US. Some of those countries don't have FDAs...and they have witch doctors with magical powers....which sounds cool if you're into that spiritual/natural healing thing...but the DOWNSIDE.....is....they don't have food, or clean water....and they are run by various factions of militants....AND there's no bowling alleys!!!
If ya don't like the FDA....change it!! But ya can't just drop it like you're Rick Perry. It serves a wide variety of functions including such minor things as making sure you don't eat tainted meats or bacteria ridden vegetables. It ensures Iceman can't poop in a can and sell it as pudding or claim his kisses cure eczema. But if you look at what happened back in the early 1900s...that led to the creation of the FDA and further increases in it's power/authority....it was a steady progression of drugs claiming to cure things that they couldn't and drugs that end up killing people. Just as Iceman is AGAINST this overbearing government organization...it was ironically the outcry of Iceman's grandparents and parents that forced the government to create the organization in the first place and twice dramatically increase it's powers and authority.
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USBC#: 8259-59071; USBC Sanctioned Average = 192; Lifetime Average = 172;
Ball Speed: 14.7mph; Rev. Rate: 240rpm || High Game (sanc.) = 300 (268); High Series (sanc.) = 725 (720); Clean Games: 198
Smokey this is not 'Nam', this is bowling. There are rules. Proud two-time winner of a bowlingboards.com weekly ball give-away!
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