"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Correction: I added a correction to my post of June 4 on the article from Science about the smallpox vaccine. I underestimated the number of first time recipients who would have a potentially fatal complication from the vaccine. The actual number is 294 per one million first time recipients. The article, therefore, only overestimates the risks of fatal complications by a factor of four, not ten. The number of potentially fatal complications in second time vaccine recipients would be 16 per one million vaccine recipients. Sorry for the mistake. Forgive me. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. posted by Sydney on
6/07/2002 07:39:00 PM
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