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#1417320
Leighton Buzzard
Anecdotal evidence has shown that if you step on the cracks in the pavement, bears get you. But you try telling that to the highway authority.
6/28/2012 4:19:30 AM
#1417327
Kat S.
Don't faint russell, but colloidal silver can still be found over the counter in health food stores and online. The FDA did not "ban" it by the backing of "Big Pharma".
So go ahead and turn yourself into a smurf if you want to take it on a daily basis. I wish you wouldn't, but no one can really stop you.
P.S. The reason doctors used colloidal siver more that 90 years ago was because antibiotics were still yet to be discovered at the time. By all means, however, don't let my rationale get in the way of your paranoia.
6/28/2012 4:25:28 AM
#1417351
Ebon
Also, it turns your skin blue.
6/28/2012 5:16:59 AM
#1417394
Raised by Horses
To my knowledge, no-one died from using leeches, either. But apparently Big Pharma shut them down as well.
6/28/2012 6:43:53 AM
#1417397
Doubting ThomasThe problem is that it can turn your skin blue:
http://www.davidbarrkirtley.com/blog/?p=1172
The other problem with colloidal silver is that the people promoting it claim that silver kills bacteria in the stomach & colon, however they never say how it is supposed to kill the bad bacteria and not the good bacteria that we need in our digestive systems.
6/28/2012 6:45:29 AM
#1417401
fishtank
russell, medicine is more complicated than that.
6/28/2012 7:02:57 AM
#1417421
Stonespiral
I'm all for hitting up natural remedies that have at least some kind of indication that they work, but this stuff really doesn't have any. And what evidence it does have is that it's a sub-par anti-microbial treatment that doesn't aid in healing. Basically Neosporin does a better job than colloidal silver.
There really isn't enough benefit to justify turning yourself blue with it.
6/28/2012 8:09:53 AM
#1417444
If it was effective and cheap, pharmacies would do their utmost to corner the market and sell it. Or they would put it in medicine.
If they could make money off it, they would. But it doesn't work, and anecdotal evidence is just another way of saying 'a friend told me a friend of a friend's uncle's daughter in law's brother's third son used and it REALLY WORKS!'. Also, bullshit. Also, it turns your skin blue.
6/28/2012 8:51:38 AM
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6/28/2012 9:52:37 AM
#1417546
Papabear
"Anecdotal evidence has confirmed its efficacy as a natural antibiotic, anti-viral and anti-fungal agent."
And we all know anecdotal evidence is the very best kind.
P.S. Hemlock and tar pits are natural, but that doesn't make them good for you.
6/28/2012 2:25:35 PM
#1417568
Matante
Back when silver was used as an antimicrobial agent, it was used topically.
It did save many babies' sight when a simple silver eyedrop would prevent infection from their mother's gonorrhoeae.
Then antibiotics came.
6/28/2012 3:46:53 PM
#1417579
ozznova
Yes, colloidal silver may have TOPICAL antibiotic use.
You know what also has antibiotic use? Actual pharmaceutical antibiotics.
6/28/2012 4:22:06 PM
#1417642
AgahnimI think I'll ask her what you are:
What's that, Ms. Duck? Quack? Yeah, that sounds about right.
6/28/2012 7:16:31 PM
#1417656
CharlieE
Colloidal silver is great at killing germs in a petri dish. Should you ever get a bad case of petri dish germs, feel free to use it.
If you use it for anything else, you turn blue. And the germs go on living.
6/28/2012 8:15:48 PM
#1417776
Table Rock
Why would he make this stuff up? It's not like he's making money off-
Oh. Never mind.
6/29/2012 5:19:02 AM
#1417783
Reynardine
That's right. Turn silver and die, and then we'll melt you down.
6/29/2012 5:27:44 AM
#1417917
Anecdotal evidence, isn't that an oxymoron?
6/29/2012 11:48:29 AM
#1418090
michael3ov
I don't know if it has caused deaths but there is absolutely no evidence to support the touted benefits.
Oh and you could turn your skin a lovely shade of gray.
6/30/2012 4:28:34 AM
#1418160
greenblade
4,000 years of human use of silver and no deaths
= people who use colloidal silver are immortal (as well as blue)?
6/30/2012 9:04:27 AM
#1418357
Aikku
greenblade
4,000 years of human use of silver and no deaths
= people who use colloidal silver are immortal (as well as blue)?
6/30/2012 9:04:27 AM
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That explains FFVII's Jenova...
6/30/2012 9:15:21 PM
#1418995
The Anonymous
And it turns you into a smurf!
7/2/2012 8:22:48 PM
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