Kinda hard to get pictures when [BP + the coast guard] won’t let reporters on the beaches let alone out on the water + Corexit prevents the dead sea life as well as the oil from rising to the surface. Perfect cover up chemical.

Given that it accepted that Corexit itself is very harmful to sea life I don’t understand how you can argue that we need to see pictures of dead bodies (I assume you mean human bodies) to validate a chemical oceanographers scientific measurements. Or before we can contend that a large area of the gulf is likely a dead zone, in relation to marine life, from multiple sources of pollution. Oil, methane, Corexit etc.

“The only difference is that it wasn’t in the U.S.A. and there was no CNN broadcasting every little detail.”

lol… Yes and no. Much has been said and shown about it, but what has been said and shown? Then again, that’s the Western way anymore. Throw out a ton of numbers and possibilities and leave it at that. It really does emphasize the decline of our culture.

An acquaintance of mine had type II diabetes that he cured with a 21 day, water only fast under doctor supervision. It turns out that cells become immune to insulin in type II diabetes and that fasting will eliminate that immunity.

If this were another forum, oh how I could discuss the philosophy of so-called cures (whatever their origin). And what the hay, I’ll give it go!

There was a time when I considered becoming a medical doctor or researcher, for cancer specifically, but decided against it for the simple reason that “cures” enable a side of humanity that doesn’t quite sit well with me. Cures and the pursuit of are not science. They are an expression of values, and are not meant to be taken seriously/scientifically (which is just as well, seeing as how humanity has never cured anything, for that we’ve spent millennia looking for even a single one).

Anyway, on the science side of your suggestion, there is a reason why doctors ask if you’re on any special diet or taking any supplements. It’s not because they wish to stamp out some “cure” in the name of Big Evil, Inc (aka, in this case, BIG PHARMA). They have to know because these things can mask or skew test results, and give a false negative (or positive, depending on how you look at it). Saturating the body with water and starving it, or vice versa, has it’s effects that will skew results. I’ve read about this before, and while I do not recall the link (it’s been a long while) that is what I learned.

So it’s not a case where I defend “Western medicine” vs “Koo-koo for Quackery”. Western medicine has as much quackery in it as anything else does. The fact is, no one can cure anything. We never have and probably never will, for all that we’ve spent millennia looking for even a single one. What I will say for cures is that they are an expression of personal values, namely that of the value of life, and thus this deeply rooted drive to believe in them has it’s value. But when values cross over into the realm of scientific explanation, I simply cannot abide it. In a lot of ways, such a beast is like health coverage itself (the other reason I didn’t go into medicine). Cures become a false and expensive pursuit that no human can possibly resist the pull of. And as a doctor at heart, I simply cannot encourage that sort of thing. Cures enable a part of the human psyche that really doesn’t do us much good, aside from express our very deep and profound desire to live. If I were to lead a patient or research team to thinking there were cures, I would not be a scientist. I would be a philosopher acting out a human fantasy, and therfore a huckster whether I wore a white lab coat or indian medicine-man paint and garb.

Besides, my father is a diabetic and he took to drinking to water to feel full and thus discourage eating in order to better control his sugar when it got too high (despite all other measures to lower it). Very well. I mean, there is no special diet for the diabetic. Most everything becomes sugar, even proteins. So he does that when he needs to, sometimes for weeks at a time, yet about ten years ago he had surgery to remove a prostate tumor. Go figure!

But don’t feel bad. Lots of people have cures that simply don’t work

Mike

That could all fall apart should BP make a major oil discovery in the Gulf.

It was all for nothing.

Hey Ben,

A long term, water only fast will generally eat up pre-cancerous cells. It does wonders to sharpen the mind too if one fasts at least 30 days. Good luck.