Dear SG user,

I'm adressing you mostly because of one simple thing. And that is, that if you like to throw medical advice around and you are no health professional or have the very least idea of what the fuck you are talking about, well. I sincerely hope you burn in hell.

I have no ill intentions towards any of you, random strangers surfing the internet. But there's only one thing that really pisses me off, that could make me kill people with my bare hands, is those kind of persons that like to start spurting random medical and mostly made up data without having not a fucking clue of what they are talking about.

If by this point you are wondering why am I writing this, well I'll answer you, it's mostly because of the weed topic, well that one and the previous cigar one. I could go into more insight but if you say, weed fights cancer, you better back it up by some SCIENTIFIC research. And, no dear stranger, articles published in a website named www.legalize.it are not SCIENTIFIC. If you are not familiar with the Scientific Method and the procedures a drug has to go through to be considered as effective and safe to use I'd gladly explain them to you later on. But please STOP GIVING FUCKING MEDICAL ADVICE.

You are playing with your life and everyone else's, can't you see it? Every time you automedicate, every fucking time you say, Hey have this amoxicilyn for that headache, they cured me. every fucking single time you say things of the sort as weed is healthy, there's no problem in taking steroids. I'm doing a ketogenic diet and I'm perfectly well, it's totally safe. YOU MIGH BE CAUSING DAMAGE TO SOMEONE. And not psicologycal one, but physical and sometimes irreversible one. Not to mention that by using medicines badly, and that is any of the following:

  • Not fullfilling treatments.

  • Automedicating.

To name the two main ones, you are creating SUPERBUGS, bacteria and viruses develop resistences to medication. I will gladly go into further detail if someone is interested, but what you are doing is causing a lot of health problems. Did you know that penicillin is almost useless now in many of its forms? [citation needed]

So that's it. Be aware that everything can and eventually will kill you. Jesus Christ, you will die of breathing too much if you don't do so before by other means. And now I'll quote Paracelsus Alle Dinge sind ein Gift und nichts ist ohne Gift. Allein die Dosis macht, daß ein Ding kein Gift ist that is roughly The dose makes the poison

All the drugs used daily are lethal in some dosis or another, there's something called therapeutical margin that determines in which concentrations they are safe to use. For example Digoxin will cause hallucinations if overdosed. Paracetamol will destroy your liver and Aspirin will pierce your stomach. That is, if they are not used properly. So please for your own benefit and everybody's, do so. I beg you.

Now into the weed topic, something having medical uses does not mean it's healthy. Did you know that heroin can be used to stop cough? And cocaine is a good local anaesthesic? Now, would you recommend someone to have those? That's it. I'm not saying you shouldn't or should smoke weed, or inject yourself heroin. But be aware of the risk and act consecuently, and most important be able to take an informed decisition.

So, please, next time you are going to take some Augmentine because your head hurts or you have a cold, or you want to claim that there's no such thing as cancer, or that it can be cured through meditation. Please, fucking refrain.

Sincerely,

A future Pharmacist.

TL;DR: Don't be an asshole

/Rant.


Alternate version provided by Misha

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Umm, who cares? Sorry Mr, but you're being overly sensitive about something the vast majority of us can give a fuck about. It's the INTERNET, if people are taking medical advice HERE seriously, then they are beyond help anyways.

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You'd be amazed at the amount of people that believe everything posted in the internet. Also this was not only aimed to the people here, let's say I happened to be surfing this website when I ranted.

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I HAPPEN TO UNLOAD AT WHATEVERS IN FRONT OF ME.

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I agree with you. You seem pretty smart and very well read.

11 years ago
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Don't flatter me :P

11 years ago
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I agree with you.

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Anyone stupid enough to blindly trust complete strangers that give advice on the internet are responsible for their own fate.

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I agree with you, but it's also true that if someone relies on random threads on the Internet to get medical advice (really, health tips from steamgifts.com?), they take the risk and I couldn't care less if they get harmed.

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It's a kind of natural selection... it should be a good thing for humankind... :D

11 years ago
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it's not really "a kind of natural selection" at all.

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Google for any question and then click the link to Yahoo answers. That site really shouldn't exist.

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Indeed, people there are even more stupids than in Youtube, and that's a lot.

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Most of topics opened in Yahoo answers is to troll somebody, it should NEVER be used for important purposes like Medical ones..

(not that I ever found anything useful inthere, even for secondary argumentations)

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“There is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.” Alexander Fleming

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That's why I am insisting in not automedicating oneself and follow dosage patterns strictly.

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In retrospect, I'm not sure why this was necessary, but here's the revised version. Just fixed some small spelling/grammar errors and did some minor sentence restructuring (hopefully without changing any of the content). Maybe I just have too much time on my hands. Meh.

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Thanks for taking the time :)

I'll add it as an alternative version and will have a thorough look at it later when I have time.

11 years ago
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Anytime. Hopefully this will ward away some of the ad hominem attacks :P

11 years ago
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but... cancer CAN be cured with cyanide......


Disclaimer: Cyanide, NOT a cure for cancer

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I really liked the disclaimer

11 years ago
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Well, the person surely won't suffer anymore.

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Why didn't you just post this in the thread instead of making a new topic?

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because we have such a topics over and over again. not only about weed.

Your tooth hurts - instead of going to dentist you post on forums.

You have migraine - better post instead of checking if it's not a sympthom of serious disease.

And so on and on. Weed is just most current topic.

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Exactly.

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Because I am an attention whore. All look at me.

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I'm not sure but I think you may have gonorrhea,if I were you I would visit a medical specialist OR i would obviously smoke some weed

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I actually read your whole post and agree with (most) of your concerns. You seem to be pretty passionate about this and it's good if you're really going to be a pharmacist one day!

But science evolves and corrects itself so even your "scientific research" can't be taken as fact, scientists are only human and there's always a corporation / institution funding the research with their own interests (money). Also, people have been curing diseases long time before modern western medicine and still do with methods that might seem a bit.. strange to most of us (Chinese medicine as a well known example).

My point is that cigarettes were approved by US doctors less than 70 years ago and bloodletting was used in Europe to cure illness and disease until the late 19th century.

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Yeah. But now controls are taken even more seriously than before and studies have to be much more determining and significative to be approved. And sure science evolves and there's room for discussion but there's many few people capable of doing so in the correct manner, and I do think that the average internet user isn't precisely one of those (Me included, and I've been studiying specifically this field for a good 3 years now.)

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Al always foolow medical advice from random strangers on the internet and I fff perfectly finuuubl.

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I sense a condescending tone in your post.

11 years ago
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Either we have a different meaning to the word condescending or I completely fail to notice it. May you point out why and how? Please.

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I enjoyed this one with a glass of whiskey and snacks.

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Glad you enjoyed it. I hope you are back for the next airing.

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I have a doctors degree in weed. I aint gonna listen to you.

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First time i read ur letter..i felt like im wasting my time, then tried reading it while high ( was like a poetry to me)i smoke weed ocasionally but i completely agree with u! and this isnt adressed to post author, but to people who hate weed, alcohol, cigarettes and etc.....smoking is bad, drinking unhealthy , but point is i dont give a shit, im sort of having fun in a very wrong way, and ill probably die anyways.But its a choice i made myself, i like it and i keep doing it, bcuz its my life and i can do whatever i want!BUT if there is one thing i do not do,i do not encourage others to do so!
I hate weed lovers and weed haters, bcuz everyone makes such a big deal about it.Why do u care?Let them choose on their own, its not like they dont have heads on their shoulders.
PS Im sorry for offtopic, but i felt like sharing my thoughts.

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I do agree with you, I mean I do consume some drugs in a regular basis (alcohol and caffeine basically) and I do so because I've made an informed decision. I know that they are bad and harmful but I will cope with it, but the thing is, I don't encourage any other to do so.

If you want to take any kind of recreational drugs inform yourself about their side effects,about their danger and then, do as you want. You are the one that it's screwing with your body after all. But the thing is, don't claim them to be healthy.

And when it comes to other kind of medicines, specially antivirals and antibiotics. Stay away from them unless a doctor tells you to have them.

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I guess we can agree on point that half of smart people use drugs and other half dont, but they are smart bcuz they can make choice for themselves and live with consequences!Real problem is the dumb people who advertise,try to brainwash and try to take advantage of other people who maybe arent smart(strong) enough to choose or think for themselves!
wow, now they sound like dictators or bad guys!(Last sentence was a jk).
"Wherever there is a human, there is a problem." (Correct me if i wrote that wrong)

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"...be aware of the risk and act consecuently, and most important be able to take an informed decisition." A-fuckin-men. If everyone could make their own informed decisions, this world would be a much better place. People shouldn't spout off about things they aren't educated on, and folks should learn not to take the advice of just anyone. Hell, even doctors can be stupid sometimes. I've had a few of them try to prescribe me medications that could have been fatal had they been taken together, which is why I always try to do as much research as possible before I take a new medication.

Makes me wish that legit medical knowledge was easier to obtain, and a lot less expensive. :t

Thanks for the interesting read, MrC. Cheers!

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You may laugh, but I really read it as "medieval facts" instead of medical. Who knows why, at least I don't.

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MrCastiglia proving my "Idiot" tag on him to be even more true, if people go online to ask random internet goers about a medical problem they should expect answers that are uninformed. MrCastiglia take some rat poison to cure your condescending tone.

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Simplified version of OP's post: "Don't say anything about anything medical without providing evidence. Now I'm making claims without providing evidence. I can, but you can't. Also, I'm very angry."

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Thanks for the short post xD

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What do you exactly want evidence for? I can provide it. Also I'm glad you got the point.

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You misunderstood me. I don't want evidence. I'm not interested in the topic. I've read so many "marijuana is medicine for EVERYTHING" essays from my (college) composition students that I always assume such claims are silly until I know better. (That puts me on your side, more or less, right?)

I just said that you state everyone should provide evidence for any medical claims, but you also make medical claims without providing evidence. My only point is that you're using ridiculous logic and/or are being hypocritical. You're like a person on fire who's shouting "Everyone, you might be on fire. Check, quick!" instead of putting yourself out.

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I see, anyways I didn't make any claims or so I thought. I only threw some trivial data more like curiosities than to actually prove anything. The message is to trust and go to a health specialist when looking for medical advice, nothing else.

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Licking batteries that have been soaking in a light acid (such as orange juice) increases energy and overall health. AmIDoingItRight?

11 years ago
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Solved, thanks!

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Now you just played with my mind.... F U... Now i think there is a puzzle XD

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heh just check the profile, isnt it? xD

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Perhabs it could be in another thread :P

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