While nostalgic irony may have been vanquished, regular irony is still making headlines. Natural medicine advocate and AIDS denier Gary Null is recovering after a manufacturing snafu caused him to overdose on Vitamin D. The author, along with half a dozen consumers, had been ingesting a batch of his Ultimate Power Fail Meal, accidentally laced with 1,000 times the correct dose of Vitamin D when he began experiencing bleeding “within his feet.” Also: severe kidney damage. Null is suing the manufacturer, Triarco Industries for $10 million. According to Discovery News:

Null and his customers would likely not have been poisoned if his products were held to the same standards and regulations that real drugs are subjected to—and which Null and others in the “alt med” industry have long rejected.

There’s a joke about “taste of his own medicine” in there somewhere.

6 replies on ““Ageless” Crank Almost Dies Taking Own Medicine. Gets a Lawyer.”

  1. Some very interesting Fun Facts regarding pharmaceuticals: over 100,000 people in the US die every year due to pharmaceuticals WHEN they have been “properly prescribed,” there were no manufacturing defects, and the directions were followed in using them. More than 700,000 people die every year from all causes (including when they did not follow the prescription or the doc made a mistake in prescribing) due to conventional medications.

    http://www.pathlights.com/nr_encyclopedia/…

    http://sustainablemedicine.org/2008/10/dea…

    How many people have died following the advice of a naturopath?

  2. @organic.brian – How many people have died following the advice of a naturopath? Pretty much EVERYONE in the human race up until penicillin was discovered in the 1870s.

  3. Screw both of you. I subscribe to Gemstone Therapy. Any ailments I suffer are instantly cured by sticking some quartz up my ass.

  5. Well, organic.brian, when you get cancer for no explicable reason, you just stick with your naturopath. Or, when you get the clap, just put a balm on it.

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