Why beautiful people should stick to what they’re good at

Mouse says:

09:42am | 10/04/12

Roland, I wish you all the best and hope you get the “all clear” shortly.
I too am going through the treatment and am so grateful to the wonderful staff and Docs that are getting me through it all. There is light at the end of the tunnel and after the operation hopefully I will get the all clear too.

OMG! Another miracle maker!!  I feel a mixture of sadness and anger at these people. Sadness because they actually may believe the crap they peddle and anger because of the pain they can cause with their false promises.  These"beautiful” people have probably never had a trauma worse than breaking a fingernail before a photo shoot or not being able to find their favourite moisturiser at the chemist. The thing I find incredible is that people actually listen to, and put faith in,  the dribble that comes out of their mouths! 

But hey, this girl can cure cancer!!  Well, what is this model/actress doing then?  Get her to the RPA immediately and get her working pronto!!  She’s got lives to save!!  lol   :o)

Chris L says:

09:28am | 11/04/12

Breaking a nail may not be much to the rest of us, Danger Mouse, but remember these people are breaking beautiful nails! I think you are dismissing their suffering a little too quickly.

Good luck with the prognosis you two!

Aphrodite says:

09:48am | 10/04/12

Ha ha ha… I was going to say the same thing bec…
But seriously… this airhead should stop talking about something as serious and deadly as cancer… What is Miranda Kerr thinking endorsing such things on her blog?

MarkF says:

09:53am | 10/04/12

Oh I don’t know about that.  Google some pictures of Tory and you wouldn’t call her a bush pig, she actually scrubs up not too bad.

Agreeing with some of the hatchet jobs she does (ie about meatworks) is a different matter.

Never having been afflicted with the curse of good looks I can look at most of them and shake my head thinking what a bunch of wanks.

Dave says:

01:35pm | 10/04/12

Disagree, Id have a crack at Tory before most women!!!

Anne71 says:

01:02pm | 11/04/12

Aphrodite - I suspect Miranda Kerr was not thinking at all.

If someone wants to experiment with Epsom salts and a change of location to treat their cancer, then they’re free to do so as far as I’m concerned. It’s their life and their choice. But when they exhort other sufferers to do the same, that’s a different story.

3M says:

12:38pm | 19/04/12

So a pill is the answer to everything? Afriad this isnt the Matrix. Other options than relying on pharamaceutical companies exist. Granted cancer isnt something to take lightly, but different things work for different people…hence why chemo isnt 100% effective.

Al says:

08:37am | 10/04/12

You can express your opinion all you like and I support your right to do so.
Just expect to be met with derision and looks of disbelief when you can’t provide any evidence that the treatment you support has any effect better than a placebo.
I believe the onus is on the supplier to provide empirical evidence that their opinion is anything more than a crock of shit. The vast majority of alternative therapies can’t do this (there are a few exceptions and individual success stories are not proof, they are circumstantial and for each sucess story there are quite often many many failures).

Mouse says:

09:05am | 10/04/12

Oh Jemima, I just hope you are never in a position where you have to decide whether to believe the oncologist or be “cured” by following Lerner-Grey’s little pearls of wisdom.  :o)

Inky says:

09:11am | 10/04/12

In a perfect world, the average consumer would be intelligent enough to do this. Instead, they gamble.

Hypothetical, Joe Brick was told by a mainstream medical professional and an expert in the field of cancer that his chances weren’t great, he had roughly a 50% chance of curing the cancer and it would require months of extensive therepy which would be generally unpleasant. But there was a slim hope there if he was willing to try.

He was also told by someone else that he could be cured in 16 weeks, almost 100% success rate, half the cost, as long as he followed a specific diet and went on a spiritual retreat and whatnot.

Looking at the odds he was told, who do you think he’d go with? Keep in mind, the man is dying and desperate.

Something to keep in mind with so called mainstream medicine, is we kinda have a whole lot of it and a whole lot of scientists, not doctors, researching into it. Scientists who follow specific processes and procedures to ensure their results are accurate and are peer reviewed to ensure others can replicate their findings.

If there was some miracle cure for something, it would have been found. In this day and age of communications technology, the likelihood of some miracle cure being hidden in a less exposed culture is less every year. More importantly, experts are constantly studying lesser known treatments in other cultures in an attempt to discover more things that work.

A final note is it’s important to know just how powerful the human body can be. Faith is a powerful tool and if the body genuinely believes it can recover from something, if the person afflicted doesn’t give up and fights out to the end, it can produce miraculous results. But this is a deeply personal thing and simply cannot be used in that one size fits all method that is required by so called mainstream medicine.

Finally, I’m amused by your statement of ” I hear ugly people and educated people in the media”. What, beautiful people can’t be intelligent? The purpose of this article is to tell people who are famous for being beautiful shouldn’t use their fame and media attention to talk about things they lack any actual knowledge on.

Suzanne says:

09:20am | 10/04/12

You have every right to express you lack of faith in “mainstream” medicine, or as sane people call it ‘medicine’.
Don’t expect a whole lot of sympathy when your wheatgrass juice and homeopathic preparations fail to cure your cancer though.
And expect a lot of eye rolling to come your way when you tell people how your naturpath has recommended a reiki instructor to help you overcome diabetes.

As for the article, it’s disgusting and dangerous that this bimbo is claiming that she can cure cancer. If it were really as simple as a change of diet and positive thinknig then no one would ever die from cancer. As someone who recently lost a parent and a close friend after lengthy, painful battles with cancer I take great offence at the suggestion that if they ate more fruit and meditated a bit more they would have been fine.

SteveKAG says:

10:19am | 10/04/12

The longer one lives, the longer one learns that snake oil, chicken guts cures are simply a diversion from real medicine.

For those of us that have a belief in a god, there will always be miracles but the main name of the game for curing cancer will continue to be scientific medicinal practise.

Everything else is sheer distraction.

M says:

04:40pm | 11/04/12

Jemima, no, your opinion should not be expressed at all. Keep your whacky pseudo-science to yourself.

Damned hippies.

SteveKAG says:

11:35am | 10/04/12

didn’t see you doing much to bring down the berlin wall.

Ronald Regan brought about the end of the nuculear age and showed the world what true hypocrites the looney lefties are….....just commies in disguise the lot of ya…..

When Arnie got his job, California the 8th largest economy in the world was almost bankrupt from 3 decades of left wing power…...........

Your mob just suck at being in government acotrel….......

Utopia Boy says:

05:02pm | 10/04/12

And California is in even more debt now.

Suzanne says:

09:56am | 10/04/12

Want to join me in punching her in the face?

I’m very sorry about the death of your aunt, watching someone die from cancer is horrific.

acotrel says:

10:00am | 10/04/12

Anna, you have my sympathy.  I lost both my sisters to breast cancer, and I have a nephew who regularly has a battle with brain cancer.  I read that bullshit, and immediately switched off.

Dex says:

12:26am | 11/04/12

Exactly - and some people are skilled or knowledgeable in more than one area. And this may come as a shock to Tory, but there are actually some very good looking people out there who are also very intelligent, as well as people who are neither very good looking or particularly intelligent.

Suzanne says:

08:57am | 11/04/12

Watch Zoolander…the ‘Slashie’ is the award for the most successful actor-slash-model.

Al says:

12:41pm | 10/04/12

I think you are missing the point.
That being that unless something has been shown to work, claiming that it is a cure is simply deceiving people.
Requiring evidence does not remove the possibility of their being things that we haven’t discovered or can’t perceive yet. But claiming that something exists without that evidence is dangerous.
If you can take the treatment, use on many people and show that it works better than a placebo then great, I will applaud and acknowledge a great discovery.
Simply, is there more to our universe that what we can perceive, undoubtedly (in fact it is required for the standard model of the universe to work) and scientist are working on discovering what these are.
But to rely on what someone with no evidence is claiming is one of 3 things.
1) They are in the process of getting that evidence (but this is unlikely in most cases).
2) They have subjective evidence that is most likely the placebo effect.
3) They are peddling BS (even if they belive their own BS)!

Carigo says:

12:59pm | 10/04/12

RIchard, have you ever heard the expression ‘keep your mind open, but not so open that your brain falls out’? It’s all well and good to be open to the possibilities of the universe. But if there is no evidence for something and it’s imperceptible, then until there is evidence and it’s perceptible, there’s not much to be gained in contemplating it.

I could just as easily say there are unicorns in orbit of Mars, powered by their own rainbow flatulence. You say there aren’t? Don’t be so closed minded! Be open to the possibilities of the universe!

That’s the equivalent of what you’re saying and it makes about as much sense.

If there was any evidence that this woman’s claims cured cancer, then great, let’s investigate. If there aren’t, and she’s claiming to cure cancer, then this is medical fraud and she should be charged.

She is responsible for giving people false hope and encouraging people to shun evidence-based conventional treatment in favour of unicorn farts. Inky’s comment was spot on in this regard.