"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
Study Finds: Blacks are People, Too! A recent study finds that smoking cessation drugs help people of African descent quit smoking. (Although the methods section doesn't say how genetically pure the subject's were.) The study found that 36% of blacks who took Zyban quit smoking by seven weeks compared to 19% who took placebo. The same type of study, without regard to race, was already done in 1997, with essentially the same results. Why repeat it? Because some subjects are favored more both for funding and for publishing: minority health, women’s health, and HIV research. They are the trifecta of medical science affirmative action. posted by Sydney on
7/24/2002 05:57:00 AM
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