All-Natural Snake Oil: Difference between revisions

** Being fresh actually would influence crack in minor ways.

** In "Crimes of the Hot", a call goes out for all scientists, to help solve the global warming problem. Some with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swDpWNKB5Co questionable credentials attempt to get in on it].

'''Robot Van''': You have a degree in baloney! }}

* An almost-case: on the DVD interview for ''The Mitchell and Webb Situation'', David Mitchell and Robert Webb discuss a sketch which was intended to parody this kind of mindset by being set in an 'all-natural' abortion clinic, which advocates a more 'earthy' and 'natural' method of abortion as opposed to the too 'clinical' methods available (the alternative methods as described essentially being, in the words of Mitchell, 'drinking a bottle of gin and throwing yourself down the stairs'). They removed it when they realized that the sketch instead made it look as if they thought abortion and miscarriage was itself funny, which wasn't the impression they wanted to give.

* [[Troll 2|"It's made with sap. From the forest. It is a concentration of all the vegetal [sic] properties."]]

* Parodied in the play and movie ''Proof''

''"Something can be organic and still be a chemical. Ever heard of organic chemistry?"'' }}

** Many familiar chemicals are composed of the same basic building blocks: hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen. Including riboflavin (vitamin B₂), LSD, heroin and atropine (extract of deadly nightshade). Their effects range from healthful, to...not so much.

** ''Cyanide'' qualifies as organic in a strictly chemical sense as it is made of carbon and nitrogen. That's natural, right?

* [[Kath and Kim]]. No, not the horrible American one, the Australian one.

* [http://plover.net/~bonds/atkins.html Dr. Atkins' Cholera Revolution]!

* Not exactly a parody, but an episode of ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' has a doctor fraudulently selling something like this as a breast cancer cure<ref>which was based on the already banned "cure," [[wikipedia:Amygdalin#Laetrile|Laetrile]] </ref>, with the result that several of her patients die due to their cancer going untreated. When she's finally cornered, she engages in a self-righteous rant about how modern medicine is failing millions of women by disregarding and patronizing them and that she's at least researching to find a cure. McCoy then points out that she should have probably told the women she sold it to that she was ''looking'' for a cure, rather than that she'd ''found'' one.

** The healer tells Stan that Western medicine is all about making money and not about healing, immediately turning to a customer, "That'll be $200."

* ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'':

* A ''[[The Far Side|Far Side]]'' cartoon features an [[The Igor|Igor]]-like character walking into a shop selling "unnatural foods".

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