"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
Undoing the Damage II: The full text of the rebuttal to claims that growth hormone can reverse aging and enhance muscle performance is on-line now at The New England Journal, as is the reaction of the journal's editors to ads like this.
Perhaps this will serve as a wake-up call to the Journal, and they'll rein in the tendency of authors' to exaggerate the importance of their research findings, and the duplication of those exaggerations in the Journal's press releases. Then again, maybe pigs will fly. posted by Sydney on
2/27/2003 08:15:00 AM
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