"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
Pinked:CharlesMurtaugh gives much needed scrutiny to that LA Times travesty of an op/ed about breast cancer. His analysis includes this astute observation:
I wonder if Orenstein's refusal to engage with death underpins her (and many others') crusade against "pollution" and other supposed ills. If we start with the assumption that continued life is the supreme moral good, then death must be the supreme moral evil. And absent a belief in original sin, or in a spiteful deity, we need to locate the cause of that evil in something, or else surrender to an existentialism that most people can't abide. Aha, evil corporations... posted by Sydney on
10/17/2002 07:20:00 AM
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