Good morning and welcome to the first day of a medical adventure! I'm a physician whose main academic interest concerns lying in all its various forms and glories. Whether it's innocent misrepresentation or frankly heinous and damnable perjury, mendacity carries with it both virtues and vices. My main argument is that a phenomenon so ubiquitous and effortless as deceit must be useful, and that even a kind of splendor can ensue when a great fraud or whopper is perpertrated not merely on the most gullible and untutored rube, but on someone very much like you or me. Accordingly, reader, nothing written in any of these postings is true. DO NOT BELIEVE A WORD I WRITE!!! PARTICULARLY ANYTHING ABOUT HEALTH AND MEDICINE!!!
Why, you might wonder, would I waste my time or yours directing a thick stream of unmitigated bullshit on a world already wallowing up to its chin in this foul current? Why not instead illumine the dark corners of falsehood with blinding shafts of pure and shimmering light? Why not promote truth? Why not?
Because it's so boring, and so often so wrong. How many times have you read that some miracle diet, supplement, surgery or nostrum has been revealed not merely to be useless but injurious? Remember the great chromium scandal of 2000? The fluoridation scare of 1983? The shameful failures of penile extension surgeries? The Scurvy Controversy of 1893? The proven futiility of handwashing, flossing, a balanced diet and abstinence from bestiality? The robust and completely false assertion that yams cure yaws? Or that scabies causes scrapies?
You may curse me, dear reader, for being nothing more than an execrable liar of the meanest sort. But I have warned you, and I shall warn you each day, that nothing I post shall contain even the merest scintilla of truth, this sentence included. Enjoy and beware!
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