Trying to duck the quack doctors on Twitter and BlogCatalog

What is it about me that draws quack doctors on Twitter and on BlogCatalog?

Okay, so far, it’s only two, but soon I have a feeling I’m going to have a whole host of alternative medicine types following me — and probably even more after I write the words alternative medicine over and over, alternative medicine, alternative medicine, click, click, boom! It’s going to explode in my face and all over my IP address.

I Twittered that I was suffering from allergy headaches. I didn’t realize what a mistake that was. Suddenly I had this “doctor” following me who told me he had the cure to all my allergy problems. I’m not going to give you his url address, because I’m not going to give the man more attention than he deserves and I don’t want to engage in “a dialogue” with him. I’m reading Great Expectations and getting enough dialogue there, thank you very much.

His system, though, is “a revolutionary paradigm shift.” I think I used the word “paradigm” in my profile page, so I’m wondering if that’s why we might have a “connection.” I knew I shouldn’t have used a highfalutin word like “paradigm.” He even has consultation fees which you can pay via PayPal– um, no.

The second “doctor” is a hypnotherapist from England. Again, I’m not giving you his url address, but he’s a practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming AND hypnotherapy. I don’t need to hear any more and I don’t need to read about how you’re not a quack, but it’s really legitimate– no, really. It’s been scientifically…blah, blah, blah…leave me the H-E-doubletoothpick (that’s for my mom and dad) ALONE.

Oh, wait, this just in…as I also found another quack doctor, perhaps the quack doctor of all quack doctors, as one of my friends on BlogCatalog, and I don’t want to leave him out:

DrBobby (name changed) who runs an “integrative medical clinic” and has SEVEN, count, them SEVEN blogs — “about unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies and western traditional medicine as well.” Whoa! (If it’s unproven, though, why should I check out your sites?) Among his specialties are:

• environmental medicine, Ayurvedic cure, Panchakarma (regular karma not good enough)
• “candidacies” — no matter if Obama or McCain or if you’re like those who live where I live, still hanging on to the hope of Ron Paul (no I’m not kidding you), it’s not good for you, I knew it — ANARCHY!
• intestinal dysbiosis (ouch, that sounds painful)

He says he is “use to answer emails of” his patients, but is “new in building a blog community.” He also is new to the English language, I think.

Next time, I think I’ll share about some of the things I’ve been asked to hock and books I’ve been asked to review not just on this blog, but also on other blogs I have. Unfortunately, none of this has been as ahem, “cool” as Rickey on Riding with Rickey with his chess set. For more on that, and what he really thought of his free chess set, visit his post HERE.

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