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GlennR Jan 2017 6:37pm, 19 Jan 2017 24,299 posts	0 GlennR Something I take - nothing drastic- has got cancer on the list.
quimby Jan 2017 6:55pm, 19 Jan 2017 4,131 posts	0 quimby You have to just put your blinkers on, I think. Most of the side effects, I hope, are a tiny risk, and treatment is better than non-treatment.
Winded Jan 2017 10:08pm, 19 Jan 2017 5,109 posts	0 Winded They put pretty much anything that happens on the side effects list. Anything that happens to the people during trials and anyone who reports something after the trials too. Unless you can prove that being hit by a car wasn't related to the medicine then it too would go down on the list.
ChrisHB Jan 2017 5:57am, 20 Jan 2017 14,446 posts	0 ChrisHB Why fly with Qantas? Because every journey starts as soon as you step on board the aircraft. If only....
GregP Jan 2017 5:21pm, 20 Jan 2017 89,429 posts	0 GregP "Hi Greg We're contacting you to confirm that your booking has been cancelled. Unfortunately this cancellation may be due to us having to unexpectedly cancel the booking at short notice, we apologise for this inconvenience
Velociraptor Jan 2017 5:33pm, 20 Jan 2017 35,357 posts	0 Velociraptor I was entertained by The Ella of Deliciously on telly last night going, "A plant based diet means based on plants.". A good example of someone being so thick that they don't realise how thick they actually are in comparison with even the British television-watching public.
GlennR Jan 2017 5:37pm, 20 Jan 2017 24,326 posts	0 GlennR Ella is regarded as the brains of the clean eating movement...
Velociraptor Jan 2017 6:08pm, 20 Jan 2017 35,358 posts	0 Velociraptor She didn't have the sense not to go on the television and as good as admit that she was a money-making scam. I wonder who's actually raking in the money from the wonderfully simple business plan of recruiting a thick but photogenic posh girl, training her to use social media, publishing a cookbook in her name, and creating a vague health-related back story for her to recite.
Dvorak Jan 2017 6:17pm, 20 Jan 2017 12,922 posts	0 Dvorak I know we normally keep things quite light and ludicrous here, but I wonder if you have read this story of the forthcoming prosecution of Robert O Young, "the father of the alkaline diet" (not "clean eating" as such but begat at least a strand of it)? bbc.co.uk I know there are lots of terrible things happening and plenty of shysters preying on the desperate and/or gullible but there was something about this one which particular made me despair of just the depth of wickedness involved :-(.
Velociraptor Jan 2017 6:28pm, 20 Jan 2017 35,361 posts	0 Velociraptor I saw that on the same programme, Dvorak, though I was aware of him anyway because after that do we had with Fellmouse a few years ago I've taken a very dim view of anyone who makes a living out of making people scared of their dinner or their doctor. Unsavoury.