My Big Fat Orange Cat

I found an article on the book Our Daily Meds by Melody Peterson at the office the other day. It looked interesting so I put it on hold at the library.

This is a must read book. It’s terribly scary. I’d have thought it would be saying things that I knew but instead it really expanded upon the problems felt by the medical industry. Melody points out time and time again that radio disc jockeys aren’t allowed to take money from record companies as this could be construed as being paid to play a certain song, doctors are hired as “consultants” all the time by pharmaceutical companies. We are expected to believe that doctors only ever have our own best interests at heart, even when they are given gifts specifically for selling more a certain company’s pet drug.

Additionally her chapters on the research were scary. So much of the research out there is done and reviewed by people on the company payroll. These people aren’t doing the research for the company but are rather paid consultants. Nothing is ever said but certainly the paid consultants know very well they want certain results. Further, even many of the reviewers of these studies are on the payroll of the pharmaceutical companies. So much for over sight.

It’s a scary picture of our lack of regulations costing a lot of people their lives. If you want to enjoy some good discussion, check out the reviews at Amazon and also the comments on them. I hope you will get as much of a laugh as I did out of one that said, “Typical anti-science liberal.” HUH? Did I miss the boat and now the liberals are all believing we ran around with dinosaurs in the Bible?

I’m frustrated with my affiliate sites.   Now I haven’t sold enough on CJ to stay on–unless I buy something from myself. I like the sites they have for My Siamese so I am staying with them. My Siamese is picking up again in Google and I think I found the problem that caused it to not be listed.

Quantum Lifestyles still isn’t making it.  I’m thinking I don’t want to continue with that. I need to keep the domains and the site because I have so many emails linked to that site.  However when this hosting is done, I’ll put up some sort of page and then just leave the emails. I might keep it as a site for the cards. I don’t know.  But it won’t be like it is. I find it a lot of work to keep up on the Acupuncture Marketing Blog.

Although I write Wed Cents and it is a bit of work, it’s more fun.  And I see it as this grand experiment.  It’s a bit lighter for me than the Acupuncture stuff.  I have a book that I am working on as well. It’s about healing and not about acupuncture. I think that healing was more my focus but I know acupuncture. However so many people “know” acupuncture that they don’t want to listen to what one other person has to say–not so much anyway.  I mean some might like it. This comes from a more intuitive side.  It was inspired by Georgia’s comment and her equanamity in this illness that she has. I think it’s worth writing and will be worth reading.

It’s a little sad to let go of my first website.  Still it’s got a generic name and I can bring it back to be anything I want at any time. We’ll see what happens and what I end up doing with it!

However it does leave me more time for this, My Siamese, Wed Cents, and the Ski site I keep thinking I want to do.  My focus right now is more on working on things that can focus my OWN products rather than affiliate products and also advertising on my writing sites.  I hope I get some thing up that people really really like.  It will be a challenge I think.