"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
Bias: Speculation on why women died by the Chicago health department of 100 years ago:
The abnormal preponderance of deaths among females, 305, to 293 males, in the week ended December 27, is accounted for by the health department by "the defective street car service, with its frequent breakdowns at a season of the year when thousands of women, at a high pitch of nervous tension over the holiday shopping, have been kept waiting for hours exposed to the inclemencies of the weather. posted by Sydney on
1/02/2003 07:23:00 AM
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