[lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 13 20:25:59 PDT 2006


On 8/9/06, ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org> wrote:What the hell, just call me a Nazi and lets be done with this thread ;-).

A dozen hearty belly laughs. Heh. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=health+nazi http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/011044.html Health Nazi update http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/011046.html Health Nazi update part two
>...The next Al Capone will be providing Chicago residents with
burgers and fries cooked with trans fat oils, served with a side of foie gras in a smoke-and-cell-phone friendly speakeasy.

http://www.cyberussr.com/hcunn/smk-nazi.html
>... From Hitler's Table Talk, 2nd Edition, translated by Cameron and
Stevens, pp. 360-361:

Hitler on 11 March 1942, night --

[In front of the house of a Nürnberg merchant, with a sign reading "Smokers are requested to stay away from this house."]

"I had the same thing put up at my home. I said to the Reichsmarshal quite recently: 'Goering, do you think that it makes a good impression when people see you smoking a pipe? What would you think of a statue that represented you with a cigar in your mouth?'

"I am convinced that if I had been a smoker, I would never have been able to bear the cares and anxieties which have been a burden for me for so long. Perhaps the German people owes its salvation to the fact. So many outstanding men have been lost to me through tobacco poisoning."

Note to the humor-impaired: This is not intended as a serious argument that smoking opponents are Nazis.

Curious historical sidelight:

Nazi physicians, notorious for euthanasia of the mentally ill and for gruesome experiments in concentration camps, were pioneers in research against cancer, which they viewed as a form of race pollution. Their work is written up in Robert N. Proctor, The Nazi War on Cancer, Princeton University Press, 1999; 380 pp.

-- Michael Pugliese



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