Good As You

VEMMA is eerily close to VitaMeataVegamin. And LaHaye looks a little like a (much) older Lucille Ball, and with her drawn-out-speech attempts to keep her dentures from slippin', she sounds a little like an intoxicated Lucy. Maybe that's why LaHaye didn't pop the top on one of those delicious fruit juice concoctions and take a swig. I hope that "Funny Or Die" is working on a spoof. Hey, JH, I have an old wig that looks like LaHaye's if you want to borrow it...

This is a classic multilevel marketing scam. I see them on campus every year, duping students into thinking they can make money as an independent “brand partner” while essentially stealing their tuition money with huge up-front costs. They take advantage of the fact that many students have never had to manage large amounts of money before.

In this case, CWA is taking advantage of the fact that their followers have no critical thinking skills, and are largely elderly and worried about their health.

At first I thought it read “an exciting liquid nitrogen discovery,” which would have been interesting.

Excellent job you did uncovering CWA's bias. These supposed xtian folk sure do have a lot of skeletons in their closets, for all the prancing they do about how pure they are. Love your work, keep it up!! peace

I have an excellent chiropractor who is also a licensed nutritionist. There is alot of money to be made in nutritional supplements.Nutrition also is a legitimate link to good structural stability.

I have no doubt this could be a ponzi scheme selling snake water.But my point is that finding a chiropractor that is also licensed in nutrition is not uncommon.

Thanks for the insight, plant man.

Wouldn't you also agree that even with a nutrition background, a chiropractor would need a label beyond merely "doctor"? Folks naturally assume that the word means medical doctor.

Nutrition is important, but you can get that with a good diet. That means cutting out about eighty percent of the meat, though, and they're targeting the people who want to have their steak and eat it too.

I bet the people who buy this have a graveyard of as-seen-on-teevee exercise equipment in their basements.

We should set up a controlled experiment: have a bunch of people drink Vemma and another group drink those shakes that Robertson was hawking a while back. See if any differences pop up. We can call the experiment "Drink Like a Wingnut."

That said, I agree with G-A-Y: an invitation to "ask a doctor" about a nutritional supplement should lead the questioner to someone with a plausible, professional connection to the scientific study of human nutrition. I'm not saying this chiropractor in NC isn't also a dietitian or some such thing. He might be, for all I know. But would you be surprised to find out he's just a chiropractor with no more knowledge of human nutrition that you or me (well, me anyway)? Of course you wouldn't: because the wingnuts have made their contempt for science more than clear these last few years. Whether it's "Dr." Laura with her degree in physiology giving people advice about their personal problems or Bill Frist "diagnosing" Terri Schiavo on the basis of a few seconds of video tape, the right wing simply does not view science as a tool for gathering useful information. Science to them is another way of augmenting their wealth and power, and if a "scientific" opinion will help them reach their goal – whether their goal is imposing their religious beliefs on the rest of us or just making a quick buck selling fortified Kool-Aid – they will find a "scientific" opinion one way or the other. Their followers won't know the difference, and, thanks to the MSM, the rest of us wouldn't even know it was happening if it weren't for folks like G-A-Y.