Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[The Firebird]

I feel very mixed on this - there’s certainly real, usable drugs present in some natural remedies, but a lot of it is a bunch of bull. I do think it should be investigated in detail, so we can verify which category to put things in.

Sometimes the state of knowledge is pretty good and they just aren't packaged as drugs for scientific or economic (can't patent natural products) reasons.

You can find willow bark, for example, marketed as a pain reliever. It most probably works--it has salicin. Pure salicin passed the trials of the time and was prescribed as a pain reliever in the late 1800s. But by 1899, aspirin had been prepared for market and worked better.

The same thing happens with a lot of treatments. The original insulin people used (the patent famously sold for $1) was purified from pigs (and other animals). They needed thousands of dead pigs to extract it from.

The insulin people buy now has been modified in dozens of ways to last longer and to regulate blood sugar more effectively. Its the difference between the wild banana and what you buy at the store.

That said such changes are patentable, and so there is a strong incentive to make some changes to maintain a patent even if they scientific justification is weak.

 

[Reynard]

Facebook is definitely not the place to suggest that WotC is not absolutely correct in all things it does, just FYI.

 

[pukunui]

Boy, remember when Sharon was going to be a big villain in the post-Endgame era? They were really throwing a lot of spaghetti at the wall for a few years there.

I was just thinking about that the other day! The most recent Captain America movie would’ve been a logical place for her to show up again. Oh well!

 

[Aurel Guthrie]

Boy, remember when Sharon was going to be a big villain in the post-Endgame era? They were really throwing a lot of spaghetti at the wall for a few years there.

That was so weird and it never came up again... And I hope it stays forgotten, same as Secret Invasion.
Edit: Actually Secret Invasion fixes it. She was totally a skrull guys, nothing to see here, moving on.

 

[payn]

Facebook is definitely not the place to suggest that WotC is not absolutely correct in all things it does, just FYI.

Facebook is for peoples cats and racist rants.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Boy, remember when Sharon was going to be a big villain in the post-Endgame era? They were really throwing a lot of spaghetti at the wall for a few years there.

My personal suspicion is that fell apart with the Skrull plotline post Secret invasion.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

I'll try 'natural' things, before I sign on the dotted line that I understand all the side effects Pfizer wants to pump me full of.

Fair enough. But the lack of listed side effects does not necessarily correspond to a lack of side effects in general.

 

[Scribe]

Fair enough. But the lack of listed side effects does not necessarily correspond to a lack of side effects in general.

Sure, whatever works for you.

 

[Autumnal]

Well, okay, then.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/542469/plan-9-from-outer-space-the-game-a-science-fiction-gothic-horror-cult-film-rpg-with-everything-needed-to-play

 

[The Soloist]

Facebook is for peoples cats and racist rants.

I left many gaming FB groups recently because they slowly devolved into giant rotating gaming ads with no moderation.

The solo RPG group is the only one I care about but I have to admit participation is slow now and I have to constantly bloc new advertisers.