Members of the Paleo-Game Cult are about to be arrested by the government and thrown in a FEMA death camp for beliving in the paleo diet. At least that is what the Paleo-Game Cult is saying more or less. Even conspiracy theorists outside of the Paleo-Game Cult are worried about being rounded up. I’m excited that the government is going to get rid of the Paleo-Game Cult. Finally, without their interference, the MRM will start getting things done. There’s just one really big problem. What the Paleo-Game Cult is saying here isn’t true. Let’s look at what really happened.
All of this crazy mess started when Steve Cooksey, a resident of North Carolina, started a paleo diet blog. He did more than just blog. He sold a paleo diet advice service. He had two services, one for $149 per month and the other for $197 per month. The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition recived a complaint about Steve Cooksey and had to investigate. The Paleo-Game Cult will lie and tell you the government is after paleo dieters for knowing the “truth”. The reality is that in North Carolina you can’t sell diet advice without a license. Writing a free blog is a different story as the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition explains.
As you can see what was at issue was that Steve Cooksey was SELLING paleo diet advice without a being a licensed dietitian/nutritionist. It had nothing to do with his blog or his “non-mainstream” diet views like the Paleo-Game Cult says. Once Steve Cooksey stopped selling diet advice the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition no longer cared about him. As the owner of my own business, I understand this. When you start selling a product or service, there are a lot more laws invovled because of fraud issues and many other issues. Even a pure libertarian government would have many of these laws since one of the fundamental reasons for government is to fight fraud. It’s no surprise that the Paleo-Game Cult would be against such laws. Given that most of them are either unemployed or underemployed and incapable of starting a legtimate business like I have, the only way for them to make money is with businesses or employment of questionable legality and/or questionable ethics. I suspect that the original complaint to the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition about Steve Cooksey came from a former client of his that realized the paleo diet was wrong and selling services based on it is a scam.
Now that we know that facts about what happened, why is the Paleo-Game Cult (and the greater conspiracy theorist community) lying about this? This is not a trival question because I have noticed that most things the Paleo-Game Cult says turn out to be lies with less than 30 seconds of google searching. Nothing that the Paleo-Game Cult says can be trusted. This goes beyond just being insane. They lie. The Paleo-Game Cult wants to be rebellous, but without all the messy problems that real revolutionaries have to deal with like death and injury. Thus, they make up fake persecution stories like this to pretend the government is out to get them. I bet many of them want to end up in a FEMA death camp or at least prison. That way they can claim to be “political prisoners” and get three hots and a cot for free. The latter has to be really compelling for the Paleo-Game Cult since they have so many troubles with employment.
The Paleo-Game Cult wants nothing to do with something that would actually challenge the government like fighting against feminism. Not only would that mean they would have to get up and do something, but because women benefit from feminism the government might actually go after them. Plus, it’s not like the Paleo-Game Cult cares about fighting feminism despite the anti-feminism they claim. Objectively, they are feminist, and they are only using the MRM for recruiment. They don’t care about the men who lose their kids because of divorce courts. They don’t care about men who are thrown in jail due to impossible child support orders. They don’t care about men who are victims of paternity fraud. They don’t care about men who are victims of the false sexual harassment industry or the false rape industry or the false abuse industry. They don’t care about men who lose their jobs or can’t get jobs because of affirmative action. The Paleo-Game Cult would rather make up a bullshit story about being persecuted than do anything to stop real feminist atrocities against men.
I knew this woman who had a pet remedy which she mixed up in her bathtub – essential oils and certain salts (I won’t say which – that would be telling!). And OMG wasn’t she shocked, shocked, shocked on discovering that the laws petaining to making medical claims and flogging your homemade remedies!
I never explained to her that those laws were put there precisely because of medical ignoramuses like herself selling patent medicines to the sick. That it wasn’t incidental, that she was exactly the kind of person the laws were meant to allply to.
(A trifle garbled, but you get the idea. No edit button, alas).
The Paleo-Game Cult is an example of why those laws exist. If the Paleo-Game Cult and people like them didn’t exist, we would have no need for those laws. Of course, they don’t see it that way. The Paleo-Game Cult thinks it should be exempt from the law and (business) ethics just like they think they should be exempt from scientific inquiry.
Hmm. These laws were originally written to do something about patent medicine and quackery. If paleo dieting is another example, them possibly quackwatch.org might be interested.
I took a look at quackwatch.org and while I haven’t been able to find anything that mentions the paleo diet specifically so far, they have already dealt with many of the people involved. On the front page, they list Robert Atkins of the Atkins diet as a “non-recommended source of information”. Elsewhere they include Mike Adams who runs NaturalNews and is a big shot in the paleo world as a quack linking to the science based medicine blog that has more information on him. I did a search for Mike Adams on science basked medicine to see what other articles they wrote about him, and I found an article about Vox Day and his pseudo-science who is a favorite of the Paleo-Game Cult.
They may not mention the paleo diet specifically (probably because it’s just another low carb diet to them), but Quackwatch and Science Based Medicine are on to the people behind the paleo diet.
Quackwatch has links through to science and academia – I found it originally by reading Pharyngula (yes, I know, but PZ Myers is an actual real scientist when he’s talking within his field of expertise). Perhaps make them aware of the paleo diet fad?
They should be made aware of it, and I will be doing that. When it comes to the major personalities behind it, they already are so the paleo diet won’t be much of a surprise to them.
Why in the hell would the government put paleo dieters in camps? That’s asinine. I can’t stop laughing.
“The Paleo-Game Cult wants to be rebellous, but without all the messy problems that real revolutionaries have to deal with”
That is so true, and there’s so much of that going around.
It’s silly. The government doesn’t care if you follow a fad diet. It’s not going to persecute you for it. Even if all the paleo dieters’ conspiracy theories were true, the government still wouldn’t care about them. They’re a tiny and insignifigant group of people who aren’t even capable of holding down jobs. The government would look at them and declare them to be no threat whatsoever and not bother with them.
There’s definitely a lot it. Besides the, “Look at me. I’m cool because I’m a rebel.” aspect of fighting a fake war with the government, I have noticed that what the paleo dieters and other groups use the argument of, “the goverment is persecuting me to hide the truth so what I’m saying must be true.” The paleo dieters can’t produce any evidence that their diet works so they lie about being persecuted by the government in a silly attempt to prove the paleo diet “true”.
I’m about to barbeque a hamburger for dinner. Hope the government doesn’t round me up!
The government is going to round you up, put you in a FEMA camp, and force you to eat nothing but bread and potatoes. LOL
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