The naturalistic fallacy at work.

If you haven't come across the naturalistic fallacy before, it is the idea that anything natural is good. A moments thought will show that on that basis alone rattlesnakes must be awesome and should be cuddled. So off you go, tell me how that works out for you.
Today I have had two exampkes of the amount of phallus in that fallacy, from different directions.
Firstly as part of my normal life as an academic I am in South Kensington wanking for coins. Sorry mean lecturing. As many may have noticed it is hotter than a camels bum bag today, so hot that it has melted the few Sprungli truffles i was saving to revive myself.
However the torture pit in which i was teaching was air conditioned.
Trust me on that showing nature sucks.
I also had an interesting discussion with...well I was born in the 60s and grew up near Glastonbury. He wasnt a hippy but he was what people who don't know hippies think of when they say hippy.  Given that at coffee break i was in lotus trying to relax my back which is being a bastard today, and necking pills, the subject of my ailment came around.
Oh joy, he is a devotee of Bowen therapy, a mystic offshoot of chiropractic which combines nonsense with 70s gameshow hosts. Or something.
I was politely deflecting this when the old line about chemical analgesia being bad came up. What was interesting was that in his head analgesia = NSAID. Which sticks him in with a lot of GPs. So of course drugs rot your stomach etc.
I pointed out that opiates also exist, but the addiction limits use, rather stupidly imho.
He actually offered to source raw opium for me.
I have no need of this, as due to my gp being a rather cowed wreck of a man cowering under a desk I long ago opened the door to the land of poppy on the NHS. But it shows the level of idiocy we deal with. First drugs are bad mmmkay, lets rub your hand with my magic healing woo. But if that fails lets smoke smack! Its natchral!
I sometimes wonder if I am mad. But that would leave no word to describe the people i meet.