Jim Geraghty reports that Mike Huckabee recently signed an endorsement deal in which he “rips [the] ‘mainstream medical community'” on behalf of a shady diabetes product. From the description, he would appear to be implicitly but very clearly urging diabetics not to avail themselves of the medical care they need:
Prescription drugs aren’t going to cure you. They’re only going to keep you a loyal pill-popping, finger-pricking, insulin-shooting customer so Big Pharma and the mainstream medical community can rake in over $100 billion annually.
Shameless and disgusting if done at any time. Done while publicly declaring that he’s “leaning towards” running for president? “Everybody grab a broom!” (Major content warning at that link.)
Update: Okay, out of fairness – yes, you can manage the symptoms of diabetes without insulin, if you alter your diet in severe ways. And yes, some doctors recommend doing the finger-prick test more often than you need to, because the system of which they’re a part profits from overuse of those tests. But the suggestion here is that the medicine does no good and is all a sham. Moreover, there is no cure for diabetes, but this ad strongly suggests that in fact, there is, and the doctors are hiding it from you. Check out how Huckabee is labeled on screen in the video:
Sorry, there are no “former diabetics.” Broom this man at once.
out of all the nasty stuff he has done and said, this is ONE issue; wish you would tell us more !!!!! it is part of the cultural shift to not vaccinate children; it is the cultural domain that tells you “don’t take medicines” take herbs and that is snake oil. When I was young we couldn’t afford the doctors and medicine so we took the “stuff” and I don’t want to go back to that era of the 19th century.
Yes, the breakdown of trust in social institutions (like modern medicine) is opening the door to a lot of this kind of thing. The vaccine stuff is just incredible, particularly the willingness of leaders in both political parties to pander to the vaccine paranoia vote – at the same time they compete to see who can be the most enthusiastically “pro-science.”
My daughter’s middle name is Katerina, primarily after Luther’s wife but also to honor Katerina the Great, who (among other things) forced vaccination upon the recalcitrant aristocracy in Russia. She ordered that no one was to appear in her presence who hadn’t been vaccinated, thus aligning the aristocrats’ self-interest with virtue.
My hope is that the public health threat will clarify the mind and force people to call out this nonsense for what it is.
Seriously. From the site:
“what scientists are calling the new science of biology”–just roll that sentence around a few times, until the aching numbness sets in.
To steal a line from John Podhoretz: “The stupid! It burns!”