AI6YR BenApparently it's almost the wild west out there with herbal supplements.
Taran Rampersad@ai6yr well, jeepers.
Boner chocolate?! 🧐
Darth Osler@knowprose @ai6yr old candy tagline suggested but not uttered
AccordionBruce@autolycos @knowprose @ai6yr
Maybe we’ll see the day when there’s a medical backlash like the one that drove quacks like the goat gland guy out of the country and then out of business 🐐
After his lucrative time broadcasting on million watt radio stations he set up just across the Mexican border ⚡️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley
@AccordionBruce @autolycos @ai6yr I think the link is this?
@knowprose @AccordionBruce @ai6yr yeah I should have put in "melts in your mouth, not in your hand" to avoid that train wreck of American history
@autolycos @AccordionBruce @ai6yr I just read the whole entry and...
There are some interesting parallels with the present administration. 🤣
🏴🏳⚧🏴☠
The Dollop Podcast Ep 62- Goat Doctor John Brinkley
@coolcalmcollected @ai6yr @knowprose @autolycos
Can’t recommend enough Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford’s book:
Border Radio:
Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves
Lots of wacky stories. The Carter Family, the Goat Gland guy, Crazy Water 💦, Nazis in Mexico during WWII?
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292725355/
@AccordionBruce @ai6yr @knowprose @autolycos
let us not forget father coughlin
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/charles-e-coughlin
@coolcalmcollected @ai6yr @knowprose @autolycos
The Father Coughlin story should be more well known in these Make America Great Again times
As should the way many of these characters ended up after their heydays in the spotlight
Like Joe McCarthy, who died three years after he left office, an alcoholic probably morphine addict supplied by “reefer madness” head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics Harry Anslinger
@AccordionBruce @coolcalmcollected @ai6yr @autolycos it's a definite pattern.
It's almost as if someone read about previous things like that and analyzed why they 'failed' without any question as to why anyone would want their success.
It's the power of narratives and group identity, maybe.
Yuck.