Los Linky Links: Quackery Edition (Gallstones, Mineral Makeup and…Matt Cutts?)
August 6, 2007 by Sara Ost
Filed under Los Linky Links, WOO hoo!, Your Body
It’s time for another glorious edition of Los Linky Links. This week, let’s take a look at the latest golden offerings from the world of quack.
Google: Will the Evil Deeds Never End?
Poor Alex Chiu is simply trying to share his immortality cuffs with the world, and the evil Big Pharma-Google overlords don’t want you to know about this revolutionary invention! Matt Cutts claims to be catching misused keywords. Sure. Alex is obviously being censored because M-dawg does not want you to live forever. Please pray for Alex.
Make Your Own Gallstones!
Do-it-yourself “gallstone flushes” are a fun new health trend (the party don’t stop in Los Angeles). You basically drink a bucket of olive oil and go to bed. In the morning, you poop gallstones. The only problem with this is that it’s complete poopmuffin. Nothing more than quack at its finest! What comes out is not gallstones, but waxy balls of saponified olive oil. Exactly what you’d expect from drinking a bottle of Colavita.
Here are faux gallstones from a “flush”. Yum.
Here are real gallstones. Ouch.
And here are green peas.
Mineral Makeup Is a Marketing Gimmick
Come on, ladies (and Ryan Seacrest). I know you’re smarter than this. All cosmetics are “minerals”, and none of them are particularly healthy for you. Those with titanium dioxide can help reduce redness, but that’s about it. WebMD has the debunkery. Guess someone better tell the Mineral Makeup Blog. Oh, wait, I just did! Oops, did it again! Yay, href!
Minerals are fun!
I think that it’s wrong for any search engine to selectively ban sites unless a “safe search” for children is used. At the same time, I highly doubt some magnetic pinky rings are going to keep you young. The rings supposedly increase blood circulation/metabolism. First, I highly doubt magnets have any effect on this. Second, wouldn’t a higher metabolism speed up metabolism? Those “gallstones” are disgusting. I’d sure hate to expel that. Gross.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Scott!
thanks
What a crock!!
I have seen green, red, black and white/grey stones from inside a newly removed gallbladder.
Talk about something you know about or shut up!
Joe, your comment is brimming with misplaced rage and entitlement, but fortunately for me, it’s also so f*cking hilarious, your intent doesn’t really matter. Did I SAY there weren’t other colors? I’ve never seen someone get so upset and bossy over a pebble. Seek help, biatch.
Here is my issue with these herbal gallstone flushes… If you have in fact been diagnosed with gallstones, clearly your have an affinity for developing them. Since the cause of gallstones is not really known, they are likely to reoccur. So am I to understand that we should use these flushes… monthly, or annually, for the rest of our lives? How much money are we supposed to spend on these remedies just to keep an unnecessary organ? Furthermore untreated gallstones could lead to much bigger problems which could potentially claim one’s life. Is it worth the risk to rely on self diagnosis and treatments, none of which have been evaluated by the FDA? I say we leave diagnosis to those trained extensively in the profession, and as for me and mine, if there is something severely wrong, just cut the sh*t out.
I agree with Sara. Joe should seek therapy.
hi, if you want a natural remedy for gallstones then i would recommend stoneclr. great remedy for not only gallstones but also kidneystones.