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Gardsil HPV Hoax – welcome to the modern Dark Age

Published on December 2, 2011 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Today I just watched a video “Gard­sil HPV Vac­cine Hoax” That guy HealthRanger went on to explain how the FDA knew all along that Gardsil’s vac­cine does not help pre­vent­ing cervix cancer.

I haven’t really though too much about the topic before watch­ing the video, but dip­ping into the topic, I find it tremen­dously dis­turb­ing. This is a screen­shot I just took from Gardsil’s HPV “mini-site”:

What the heck? I have never expected it to look so darn like a typ­i­cal affil­i­ate marketing’s mini-​site. “It can affect your son too” — isn’t it get­ting bla­tantly obvi­ous they’re now trying to expand their market by broad­en­ing their fear campaign?

After all, the thing has only been released for sev­eral years, though the hype and media cov­er­age it has received is just not pro­por­tional! Here we have got celebri­ties sell­ing the vac­cine to me. If we really pull out for a bit and look at this from a high level — doesn’t it sound strange? I mean I have never seen vac­cines and med­ical stuff mar­keted like this. Maybe it’s just a change in trend, but maybe it’s a sad man­i­fes­ta­tion of our cap­i­tal­is­tic society.

Then again, that HealthRanger guy in the video keep preach­ing his own Web site new​star​get.com, so I cannot say that he is 100% neu­tral on this matter too.

The World’s Shortest Guide to Succeed in Life

Published on May 15, 2011 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Yes­ter­day I read a blog post from Mil­lion­aire Mommy Next Door, The World’s Short­est Guide On How To Be Thin and Rich. The gist of the post is so short that I’ll just quote the “guides” here.

To be thin:

  1. Eat less
  2. Exer­cise more

To be rich:

  1. Spend less money than you earn (or to put it another way, make more money than you spend)
  2. Invest in your future

From there, I pro­pose a more generic frame­work for suc­cess in life in general:

  1. Figure out what would bring you closer to your goal
  2. Do it

It’s that freak­ing simple.

As an exper­i­ment, you can ask your­self (or your friends): do you know what to bring you closer to your goals? Are you doing those things?

Why we shouldn’t care too much about being “right”

Published on January 18, 2011 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

A nice reminder for myself and others:

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