Operetta for Dr. Mercola

[compared2what?]

Whose website, linked in the OP of the historical synchronicities thread shows potential ties to:

Mormons (thru Carol Tuttle);

Moonies (thru emphasis on fish-oil, hence fisheries);

Scientology (thru anti-Pharma orientation); and

Generic right-wing extremism (thru Mercola's membership in the anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Universal-Health-Care Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an affiliation he shares with Ron Paul).

All of which sent me in such a manic search of patents, trademarks, federal grants and contracts, etc. that my head exploded, producing a patter-song based on the well-known show-stopper from The Pirates of Penzance , as follows:

Mercola.com

It is the very model of covert parapolitical
Psy-ops that seem supportive when they're really harshly critical
Thus luring left-contrarians
Though really run by Aryans
Or at the very least the most repugnant libertarians!

O, La-ti-da, ti-la-ti-da
Ti-la-ti-da, ti-la-ti-da
Tharrum-pa-bom, Tharum-pa-bom,
Tharumpa-rumpa-rumpa-bom!

* Fin *

Possibly, this should be moved to the Lounge?

[Joe Hillshoist]

Where's the rest? Thats just a tease.

We need to see the whole thing, with cast lists etc - back to work now.

[overcoming hope]

Dr. Mercola is against forced vaccinations.

Go Dr. Mercola!

[compared2what?]

I've said it before, and will say it again: No con game would work if it didn't offer something attractive. Or at least appear to offer something attractive.

Last time I said it, it wasn't in those words, admittedly. It was somewhere on the "theosophical groups" thread.

But why can it not be: "Go, opposition to forced vaccination!" as your belief, expressed by you, without recourse to Dr. Mercola, supporting whom involves supporting a very mixed bag of unrelated beliefs and practices, some of them dubious?

You know what you know, and the tworld needs you to know it. But no one needs Dr. Mercola to serve as the vessel through which your truth, or anyone's truth, passes from on high.

I will render the above operetta-esque at a later date, and apologize for the humdrum non-rhyming format place-holder.

[sansmerci]

Whose website, linked in the OP of the historical synchronicities thread shows potential ties to:

Mormons (thru Carol Tuttle);

Moonies (thru emphasis on fish-oil, hence fisheries);

Scientology (thru anti-Pharma orientation); and

Generic right-wing extremism (thru Mercola's membership in the anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Universal-Health-Care Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an affiliation he shares with Ron Paul).

It is the very model of covert parapolitical
Psy-ops that seem supportive when they're really harshly critical
Thus luring left-contrarians
Though really run by Aryans
Or at the very least the most repugnant libertarians!

Surely, you are joking?

[compared2what?]

About which part? I mean, yes, I sought to amuse. But it wasn't my sole purpose.

[yathrib]

Alternative health is usually assumed to be a leftie, granola sort of thing, so it's easy to miss the far right connections of many of the major figures.

Whose website, linked in the OP of the historical synchronicities thread shows potential ties to:

Mormons (thru Carol Tuttle);

Moonies (thru emphasis on fish-oil, hence fisheries);

Scientology (thru anti-Pharma orientation); and

Generic right-wing extremism (thru Mercola's membership in the anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Universal-Health-Care Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an affiliation he shares with Ron Paul).

All of which sent me in such a manic search of patents, trademarks, federal grants and contracts, etc. that my head exploded, producing a patter-song based on the well-known show-stopper from The Pirates of Penzance , as follows:

Mercola.com

It is the very model of covert parapolitical
Psy-ops that seem supportive when they're really harshly critical
Thus luring left-contrarians
Though really run by Aryans
Or at the very least the most repugnant libertarians!

O, La-ti-da, ti-la-ti-da
Ti-la-ti-da, ti-la-ti-da
Tharrum-pa-bom, Tharum-pa-bom,
Tharumpa-rumpa-rumpa-bom!

* Fin *

Possibly, this should be moved to the Lounge?

[compared2what?]

Mm-hm. Don't know if you've noticed, but the FDA recently codified more stringent standards wrt to potential psychological side effects of prescription medications. And the NY Times recently wrote an article about it. And there's a new public service campaign warning of the surging lethality of recreational prescription psychopharmaceutical use among the innocent youth of America.

I'm no fan of Big Pharma, or the FDA, or over-prescription of psychopharmaceutical medications. And obvs, recreational drug use of any kind should not, ideally, result in death.

So there are no good guys here, other than some of the innocent youth of America, presumably.

Still, I ask myself: In my experience and observation, do such convergent trends happen spontaneously?

Or does some party or combination of parties with enough money to lobby the FDA, ensure that its/their efforts are publicized, not to mention enough influence to roll out the TV spots for their public service campaign during the Superbowl orchestrate them?

And since I would answer those questions, respectively: "No"; and "Yes," my next question, for which I do not have an answer other than the one that springs to mind is: What party or combination of parties with a lot of money and influence might have an interest that justifies making such a big investment in the negative re-imaging of prescription medications in a psychological/psychiatric context?

Because although I wish there were such an organization that had a track record demonstrating its genuine concern for the general wellbeing and common good of the community, as far as I'm aware, there isn't.

I don't like hidden agendas. They have never, ever boded well for we, the people. Not one time.