Such complete and utter bullshit. Kanye hasn’t said a word of support for Trump since February. Deleted all his pro-Trump tweets. And Kim has spoken out against the Muslim ban, revoking ACA, the transgender military ban.

Same - I even have a black cat now... :)

I never was a big Archie fan. Or I guess comics in general.

Man, when they finally do that Afterlife With Archie show, y’all are gonna completely lose your minds.

Yeah, it’s really disturbing. I wouldn’t want to hear my parents talk about me like that.

What makes me incredibly angry at them is the clear implication that autism is somehow worse than Measles.

There’s really no evidence that Chronic Lyme is a thing. That doesn’t mean your friends niece wasn’t sick. What’s especially terrible about the so called “Lyme-Literate” doctors is that they may be preventing people from getting actual help.

Me too! As I said above, admin salaries are essentially capped at Band 4 (up to £23K) and so many admin staff are being made redundant. I’m seeing that we frontline staff are having to do more and more paperwork and admin as administrative support is removed, which is ludicrous from a financial and morale point of…

Thank you. And I appreciate your words.

Thank you for your very generous response: no, the situation was quite different. You may have misread my response, but you did not attack me for it. You were thoughtful and calm. It’s no excuse at all but simultaneously, there were responses (which I dismissed) with all sorts of personal invective, and then my…

Chocolate and magenta sounds *fabulous*.

Right. My point is that modern medicine now ‘claims’ everything that was at one time presented as alternative and works, and then pushes away as ‘quackery’, everything that does not (and calls it ‘alternative’). It does not change the fact that these began as alternative therapies and then were assimilated. Had you…

My friend went to Foyle College and as far as I know they didn’t have a prep school. But they are about posh enough to be considered a private school lol.

Good. And I am not disagreeing with you, either. I wish that there were exhaustive double-blind studies on alternative medicine treatments. But please remember that much of that which is now accepted in the medical establishment did begin as alternative (as you know): here is a very partial list.

I agree with everything you say. But please remember that much of that which is accepted into the standard canon began as ‘woo’ for years. Nutrition is a prime example. At one point, it was covered for something like one hour in all of medical school training — and that only for extreme deficiencies like pellagra.

I semi agree, but I don’t think of these placebos as benignly as you do. I very much agree that affordable health care reduces people turning to alternative methods. What you have suggested will help, and help a lot, but there are some things modern medicine cannot cure and in that space lives the huckster. There…

I think he’s a great writer and I have *clears throat* a Ph.D (Lit).

The thing is, I would really, really not care about people with too much money wasting their money on fantasy treatments. But it seems these hings slowly make their way into the mainstream, and I have to have discussions with people about anti-anxiety stockers and why, NO, I don’t think they’ll fix my anxiety, and NO,…

I know it’s hard to admit that someone you love is dead, especially when it’s your kid, but I’m getting some pretty strong memories of the Terri Schiavo case a decade ago. Similar sorts of things, but she was in a somewhat more alert state than this girl is, but similar problem - hospital declared her in a persistent…

On that one at least, you can’t say he didn’t warn you.