Quote from: Viceroy on July 04, 2014, 04:29:53 PM

Ok, now you're back to being lost. The FDA is the lead authority in the free world on this subject. If you live in the western world then what I said applies.

Witch-doctors are not doctors and the "drugs and snake oil" they use are not medicine. Don't defend snake oil salespersons, they are out to make a buck at the expense of good people's well being.

I'm not lost, mate. You're logic is just too close minded for me.

Why is the FDA the lead authority in the free world? Because the US says it is? Why do you think that is? Because companies like Monsanto and Wellbutrin pay them enough to say so. There are plenty of cases where the FDA turned the other cheek because they just couldn't be bothered to do the right thing.(One case in point: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmaris/2012/10/10/fda-recall-points-to-serious-problems-at-the-fda/) How can you blindly trust any institution that can be so easily corrupted?

The fact that almost all the recent mass shootings and attacks in the US have been perpetrated by individuals who were on prescription medications proves my point. Obviously this medication doesn't work. They were approved by the FDA. Most of the medications these people were on have side effects including depression, thoughts of suicide or harming others, and even death. When is the last time you heard of someone dying from St. Johns wort, or even going on a killing spree because of the severely altered state of mind it put them in? Clinical studies have proven it to be effective in treating depression. I'm guessing you're going to say it isn't medicinal though.

Again... just because something isn't in the only book you consider correct, it doesn't mean it isn't medicine. Or maybe you're just arguing the exact meaning, in which you're still not correct. As medicine covers a broad range of practices. Not just what's in your book.

On that, I'm done. There is no point debating this in this thread anymore. I apologize to the community for bringing my beliefs into discussion on something a little off topic of the OP. A page of Viceroy and I arguing over this isn't what this thread needs.

-Fuse