Well, I don’t know which end is up with the control game, but I gotten (now that you mention it) - both the weird ‘thumbs-up’ thing, and seen the quizzical thing when I crack wise about it on occasion.
Possibly, the truth lies somewhere in the middle there, and we are ALL just…kind of human oddities to others in some ways? Can’t say for sure, but seems like it. The quizzical stuff doesn’t bug me - maybe, because it questions or maybe just surprises, rather than tries to dictate? (I’ll absolutely admit to a distaste for judgmental types and those who try to control others. And…marketed conformities that give rise to such bs, because individual humans are just too amazing to screw with like that. So yeah - ‘thumbs up’ really ticks me off, lol. Reeeeeally.)
aluchko - yeah. She wayyyy does not like that guy! I have no hard position on Burzynski, myself. His side of the story has to do with patent theft and bureaucratic abuses. There’s a documentary on Netflix. Titled just, ‘Burzynski’. Maybe you’d like to watch it and see what you think. (I haven’t re-watched it yet, myself. I’d seen it…I think, before Xeni got mad enough to start writing about him.) I only knew about the TX Medical Board stuff because a doc I met was treating Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, and they went after him, claiming he was a fraud and a huckster, when I know for fact that guy is not. When the facts about the Board finally came out, it was clear that they were all into witch-hunting during that particular period, and there were others who got caught up in it, as well. So, I do believe that portion of what Burzynski says about is own experience with it. Still - no hard conclusions, beyond the fact that B. isn’t lying about absolutely everything.
The rest? Dunno. Not sure I will ever arrive at an opinion at all. I only mentioned it because it formed an apropos and close example about that ‘devoted’ business and how our own personal biases can drive our opinions so hard. We all saw the same articles, and man! Reaction was ALL over the place. I just kinda got into questioning the general furor over it much harder than what any of those 3 people actually believes. Like - ok, wonderful so many people feel so protective of that sick lady. That’s cool. What did that guy do? Durrr…didn’t look nearly as bad as it sounded. So…why…uhhh… are they reacting to her feeling bad about it, or him not turning up in sack cloth and ashes…or…what IS this thing, anyway?! I didn’t react until I realized they were both talking about some intense real-life stuff, and it was actually threatening to turn into some kind of spectator sport . Thinking? Cool. Talking? Cool. Mass Human-Bashing (without so much as a Belieber or some random Gawker nutjob stirring up ‘likes’?). WTH?. Not so much. Not over something so life-or-death to so many. It deserves better. THAT got me. Just that thing.
