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Blue_true

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20. You are twisting my words.
Thu Apr 25, 2019, 05:35 PM
Apr 2019

I said that if a person claims that particular non medicinal item brings about a particular result for him or her, I have no grounds for calling that person a liar unless I have direct experience with them as a liar. Now if a third person was going to try the item and asked my opinion, I would say that I don't believe the claimed outcome, but that I have no direct evidence to refute it. The third person would then need to make a decision, respect my reservations or believe the person that makes the claim, it's as simple as that. Hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people are choosing to believe Paltrow and the people making claims along with her.

You made a somewhat outlandish claim that what Paltrow is pushing has killed people like such an outcome is unique to her company. The claim that you made can be made about pretty much anything, a lot of products from cars to medicines are made with an expected mortality level from people using the products, but no one advocate shutting them down, unless the mortality rate is out of line to what a reasonable investigator would expect to see. I would think that if Paltrow's products were harming people at an alarming rate, either due to the stuff being toxic or people delaying effective treatments, I am sure that for the years that he was in office, President Obama's CDC or FDA would have been on her case. I have little confidence in action under Trump.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
WOW! elleng Apr 2019 #1
Josh Lyman saw the real thing again. nycbos Apr 2019 #2
Thanks, was gonna say!!! elleng Apr 2019 #5
Paltrow is a nut but Whitford isn't dsc Apr 2019 #3
Why do you call Paltrow a nut? Blue_true Apr 2019 #7
She sells woo dsc Apr 2019 #9
She is selling to a specific subsection of a larger population. Blue_true Apr 2019 #11
There is science and there is woo dsc Apr 2019 #12
And over the span of history, a lot of woo became medicine. Blue_true Apr 2019 #14
"Even if the effect is in their heads they feel better" woo Bradshaw3 Apr 2019 #30
The Jade egg thing is supposedly based upon centuries of Chinese practice. Blue_true Apr 2019 #41
Fueling people's delusions of "feeling better" has been a grifter stock in trade Bradshaw3 Apr 2019 #42
I don't disagree with you on the central point. Blue_true Apr 2019 #44
Oh she's a nut all right. tymorial Apr 2019 #26
Here's another vote for her as a whacko SCantiGOP Apr 2019 #28
I am sure her money is fine but a substantial portion comes from quackery tymorial Apr 2019 #29
Nut Case Horizens Apr 2019 #32
I loved the West Wing. Martin Sheen rocked it. Funtatlaguy Apr 2019 #4
Paltrow is a complete fucking moron. nt Codeine Apr 2019 #6
How is that? You are the second poster to post something like that. Blue_true Apr 2019 #8
Oh puh-leeze. Codeine Apr 2019 #10
Maybe you should read up on her relationship with her rich dad. Blue_true Apr 2019 #13
Science, science is what says that a jade egg in a vagina doesn't do anything... Humanist_Activist Apr 2019 #15
How can you tell the women that buy the jade eggs that what they experience is not real. Blue_true Apr 2019 #16
A lot of people think that their kids "caught" autism after getting a vax shot... Humanist_Activist Apr 2019 #17
I believe in science, I am an engineer after all. Blue_true Apr 2019 #18
So basically you have no problem with people being scammed, not even respecting them enough... Humanist_Activist Apr 2019 #19
You are twisting my words. Blue_true Apr 2019 #20
Her dad died in 2002 n/t TexasBushwhacker Apr 2019 #21
Aren't her oldest kids are around 18 or 19? Blue_true Apr 2019 #23
Nope. Her oldest was born in 2004 TexasBushwhacker Apr 2019 #25
I thought that it was her, was pretty sure. Blue_true Apr 2019 #38
Bwah! Drew just can't get a break! gateley Apr 2019 #46
Yeah, she made it on her own. Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2019 #24
Maybe I misread something like TexasBushWhacker implied. nt Blue_true Apr 2019 #39
Her mother is wealthy too. cwydro Apr 2019 #50
Yeah, Blythe Danner is her mom Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2019 #52
How did she only recently repair her relationship with her father tishaLA Apr 2019 #37
Seance? Why not? She is in to all the other woo. Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2019 #40
She was in a movie directed by her father at 17. Kentonio Apr 2019 #48
Her woo peddling is ridiculous and harmful tymorial Apr 2019 #27
Which has nothing to do with this fundraiser. leftofcool Apr 2019 #33
I like Buttigieg but she engages in intellectual dishonesty and exploitative marketing tymorial Apr 2019 #34
Maybe she believes a lot of that stuff -- I'm kind of woo woo, too. nt gateley Apr 2019 #47
Which has nothing to do with her hosting a fund raiser for Pete leftofcool Apr 2019 #22
Ha I can not say what Im thinking but read below lunasun Apr 2019 #31
You should be able to say it because I guarantee we're on the same page tymorial Apr 2019 #35
Gold dumbbells? I'm sure they'll feel quite at home with the buyers. TreasonousBastard Apr 2019 #49
Cool! I love Pete! Hope they raise buckets of bucks!!! gateley Apr 2019 #36
How about payday lenders or others who exploit for profit? Bradshaw3 Apr 2019 #43
Did you mean to post this to me? If so, I'm not understanding why. Thanks. nt gateley Apr 2019 #45
I loved the character Bradley Whitford played in West Wing. honest.abe Apr 2019 #51
Oh well, I was really starting to like Pete. But I can't roll with Woo. Nailzberg Apr 2019 #53
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