I used to generally agree with Bill Maher

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: ja1484

Originally posted by: Jeff7
The immune system and viruses/bacteria have been at war for eons. Each makes incremental improvements to try to overcome the other. It was a two-sided war, fought at a sluggish pace.

Not really. It was a very very one sided war. In all but a few situations (many of the diseases that we fear to a great extent, like Ebola or anything similarly severe and fatal), the human immune system will kick the everliving shit out of whatever pathogen was stupid enough to invade your tissues with a custom made, this-week-only (but we're keeping the blueprint on file), antibody carpet bombing of *massive* shock and awe with the virus's/bacteria's/parasite's name written on the side of it.

While the immune system is indeed supremely awesome, before the onset of modern medicine people died from influenza, TB, malaria, syphillis, bronchitis, pneumonia, gangrene, dysentery, smallpox, typhoid, diphtheria, appendicitis, tetanus, rabies, cholera, "childbirth fever", encephalitis, and many other infections ALL THE TIME. And that's not even mentioning fungal or parasitic infections. It's a credit to our systems that ANYONE was able to survive what passed for "surgery" back then, given how much of your body was laid open to infection...but the immune system can and did fail us time and again before we were able to back it up with the heavy artillery.

A lot of that had to do with poor hygiene and mal-nutrition though.

 

[StageLeft]

All meds are crap, even anesthetics. I don't use them for any major surgery I get. Don't need 'em!

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
All meds are crap, even anesthetics. I don't use them for any major surgery I get. Don't need 'em!

No nerve endings?! That must be convenient! Sex must suck though

 

[IGBT]

..no doubt that psychotropics are handed out like breath mints and the side effects are as powerful as the primary effects. All the more reckless to expose children to this pharm goof.

 

[Goosemaster]

Maher @ a Scientology meeting... "I said I think he came in a flying saucer that looked like vaginal orfice that was Marget Thatcher's face you ignorant fuck...and what the fuck is wrong with those goons over there...get them some shit to do!"

 

[Delta6Echo]

Originally posted by: shocksyde
I'm watching his live show right now, and he just said something really strange.

He claimed that medication is bad for you. Even Penicillin. Is he out of his mind?

Heath Ledger came up and Maher said his death should teach everyone that all medication will eventually kill you. He completely overlooked the fact that it was the mixture of 6 different prescription drugs.

I'm actually ashamed to have liked him in the past based on this. What a complete moron.

OH MY GOD! You disagreed with what Mahr said? The world is going to end! :roll: