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TVC15

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Cough medicine bomba
« on: May 01, 2009, 01:10:05 AM »
Over the counter cough medicine, even those with real, active ingredients, do not appear to be more effective than the placebo in a controlled test.

http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/86/3/170

You may as well tell the kid the spoonfull of piss your giving him is actual cough medicine.  It will work just about the same as long as he believes it.

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Stolen from this week's Skeptoid--one of their best eps ever--in which the placebo effect (and how it's not always a bad thing), is explained in detail

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4151
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2009, 01:18:22 AM »
I drank a whole bottle of Delsym and it seemed pretty effective. 

Actually, now that I think about it I just felt kinda drunk and couldn't sleep.....never got the hallucinogenic euphoria I was promised.  But I didn't cough at all.
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2009, 01:31:57 AM »
then why is it so DELICIOUS
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2009, 01:38:08 AM »
As a child when I was sick and couching, I was forced to drink a spoonful of onion juice--yes onion juice!
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2009, 02:03:07 AM »
I love cough medicine, its great for insomnia.

Sometimes I had to drink some green shit with onions and other stuff in it, I can still remember the flavor :yuck
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2009, 02:07:40 AM »
The concept of onions and cough syrup is, yes, making me nauseous.  That is the most disgusting combo I have heard of in weeks.
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2009, 02:10:22 AM »


That delicious mint flavor= BULLSHIT. :-X
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2009, 02:10:30 AM »
Tussinex is a great cough med!
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2009, 12:40:41 AM »
I used to take my cough medicine with an alligator spoon. If I still had one I'd probably be addicted to cough syrup.

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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2009, 12:43:31 AM »
Quote from: Malek on May 01, 2009, 01:38:08 AM
As a child when I was sick and couching, I was forced to drink a spoonful of onion juice--yes onion juice!

Damn.  I got delicious Flinstone's vitamins. 
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2009, 12:50:29 AM »
if there are pancakes in hell robitussin dm is the syrup
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2009, 12:52:06 AM »
NyQuil tastes way worse.  If Robitussin DM is pancake syrup in hell, then NyQuil is the water.
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2009, 01:51:16 AM »
This explains why cold medicine never works for me and halls have the same effect as a piece of hard candy.
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #13 on: May 02, 2009, 05:10:53 AM »
Cough syrup is so gross, it makes you not want to cough.
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2009, 05:12:11 AM »
Quote from: Joe Molotov on May 02, 2009, 05:10:53 AM
Cough syrup is so gross, it makes you not want to cough.

Dimetapp grape tastes great.  I could drink that all day.
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #15 on: May 02, 2009, 05:17:50 AM »
Quote from: TVC 15 on May 02, 2009, 05:12:11 AM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on May 02, 2009, 05:10:53 AM
Cough syrup is so gross, it makes you not want to cough.

Dimetapp grape tastes great.  I could drink that all day.

Okay, I'll give you that. Dimetapp is good.
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Re: Cough medicine bomba
« Reply #16 on: May 02, 2009, 11:47:06 AM »
Quote from: Malek on May 01, 2009, 01:38:08 AM
As a child when I was sick and couching
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