Does not follow Rodger

One of the mindless foot soldiers of CAM has put forward another attempt to justify his dangerous quackery by attacking "BIG PHARMA" (oooooooo). I'm talking about the Rodger. The jackass who promotes MMS in NZ. We remember MMS right. From here and here.

Well I got an email (I'm on his mailing list, Yay!) from Rodger attacking "big pharma" for apparently suppressing the miraculous benefits of vitamin C mega dosing. It's a short email. So here it is.    

Dear MMS customers,

The lengths that Big Pharma will go to:

Remember the recent stir caused when intravenous vitamin C cured a man from the King Country here in NZ.

Such cures (by an unpatientable natural product), are not good for Big Pharma business. Best that Big Pharma pull a     few strings and just have intravenous vitamin C outlawed....

http://www.naturalnews.com/030936_vitamin_C_FDA.html

Kind regards,

Roger

I'm not going to go to lengths explaining why this is stupid. Or expand on why natural news is possibly the single biggest repository of crap on the whole of the interweb. Though do check it out if you like. It's funny stuff. 

I'm just going to talk about why the "Big Phrama" bad so buy Rodger's stuff, argument is moronic.


This one is a favorite of the CAM crowd. They point to the Pharmaceutical industry and say look at how much money they are making. They must be evil and all their products must be equally evil. But our products and methods aren't making us rich. Therefore our stuff must work.


The problem with this line of reasoning is that it says absolutely nothing about the products and methods the CAM practitioners and promoters are pushing. An equivalent argument could go like this. 


Look at all those big breakfast cereal companies making lots of money from selling their cereal. The cereal must be bad for you. What about this mold I found under the floor. It's all natural, unprocessed and I paid nothing for it. It must be way better for us than the commercial cereals. 


A bit of an over exaggeration perhaps, but not by much. This is an argument style where you attempt to make your own side stronger by promoting a negative attribute of the other side. It says nothing about the actual strength of your position and does not address any of the actual issues that may be under debate.


Roger claims that "Big Pharma" is ruthlessly suppressing anything that they are unable to profit from. Even when it is a proven cure for a known ailment. Therefore, the unstated premise, you should consume the bleach he is selling. 


Sorry. But I din't buy it.