Thursday, December 31, 2009

Maybe "alternative" is the way to go

If you're not a visitor to http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/, you may not be familiar with Amy Tuteur. Her recent article on "Big Floss" (as opposed to "Big Pharma") is a scathing indictment of the "Big Floss" organization. If you want "all natural" and to not be "pushed" products by "Big Floss", alternative dentistry might be just your thing. Amy explains:

We survived almost all of human history without it. Yet in the last 100 years people have allowed themselves to be hoodwinked by a huge corporate conspiracy into believing that we “need” their products. They cite studies and claim we don’t understand science; they ignore ancient folk wisdom and have no respect for our intuition. They peddle their products without regard to the dramatic increase in chronic diseases and weakened immune systems of recent decades. I’m speaking, of course, of “Big Floss.”
It’s time to take our mouths back from corporate domination. It’s time for alternative dentistry. Continue Reading @ ScienceBasedMedicine.org.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That was a very enlightening article. Will be changing my eating habits now so I won't have to brush and floss. Or see the dentist every 9 months.

I will have a use soon for those pliers I just bought.

Anonymous said...

http://www.richarddawkins.net/articles/4853

It made it to the RD site!