"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
Useful Illness Update:Jim Miller sends this observation:
Your post on illnesses disappearing when there is no compensation reminded me of a story that I read a couple of years ago. (In the Washington Post, I think.) Researchers from Norway had gone to Latvia to study the incidence of whiplash there, and found none. In fact, Latvians didn't even have the concept of whiplash. When the Norwegian researchers published these findings in Norway, they came under heavy attack from groups that had profited from whiplash. Some were even threatened, at least with legal action. Last I heard, Norway still has whiplash, and Latvia still doesn't.
