"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
Dubious Public Health Problems: According to "America's finest news source", today is National Scoliosis Screening Day. (What can I say, The Onion is on a roll.)
Dubious Public Health Problem II: Unfortunately, this isn't a satire. A national summit on childhood obesity kicks off today. I acknowledge that more of us are obese today than fifty or thirty years ago, but obesity isn't a public health problem the same way infectious disease or clean water is. You can't catch obesity from those around you. It's an individual problem, and largely a matter of personal choice. You can't force people to eat right and exercise regularly. Well, maybe you can, but to do so would require the worst sort of tyranny. posted by Sydney on
7/26/2002 07:49:00 AM
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