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'Tard of the Week - Tony Isaacs

In today's SkepChick quickies, there was a link to an article called "Patrick Swayze's Misguided Faith in Mainstream Medicine" on a website called Natural News. The article was written by this week's 'tard, one Tony Isaacs, who identifies himself as a "citizen journalist" and a "natural health advocate and researcher and the author of books and articles about natural health."

In this article, Mr. Isaacs berates Patrick Swayze for his comments in the recent Barbara Walter interview where Mr. Swayze commented that he was taking "specific immune system Chinese herbs," but says he hasn't tried many alternative therapies because he learned that if "you feed your body, you feed the insatiable voracious appetite of the cancer." Mr. Swayze is following a regimen of chemotherapy and an experimental drug called vatalanib for the treatment of his disease. While he's realistic about his prognosis, he's continuing to fight the good fight.

Mr. Isaacs, however, appears to have gone off the deep end. He believes that modern medicine should just get off their ass and cure cancer already, and thinks Mr. Swayze is clearly being brainwashed by modern medicine and making poor decisions based on his M.D.'s advice. You see, if modern medicine weren't so interested in making the big bucks off of the suffering of innocents, then they'd reveal the secret cure to cancer and we'd all prance off in the meadows with butterflies and puppies.

Stupid Patrick Swayze. Why the hell would he choose to follow his doctor's advice instead of a "natural practitioner?" Dumbass.

Real answers are always more complex than the practitioners of woo and would have us believe, and the motivations of "big pharma" and others are usually less complex than the conspiracy theorists would like us to believe. In this case, we get Two! Two! Two 'tards in one!

Attention, 'tards! Big Pharma and the modern medical complex is not some caricature of Snidely Whiplash, twirling their mustaches and trying to determine how to best eke out more money on the backs of people's suffering and death. I personally know a number of folks who work in this industry, and their motivation is (gasp!) altruistic. It's not that a for-profit company is against making money - far from it. But the scientists employed by "Mainstream Medicine" weren't fished out of a pool of evil by Big Pharma for the express purpose of keeping the "truth" from the masses. The scientists who form the basis of this industry do the work they do for the betterment of mankind.

So, Mr. Isaacs, feel free to keep your conspiracy theories and non-peer reviewed speculation to yourself. You're no better than the National Enquirer chastising his smoking habits, and nearly as classless.

'Tard.

Source: http://www.hotchicksdigsmartmen.com/2009/01/tard-of-week-tony-isaacs.html