"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
Mad Cow Madness:Iain Murray has a piece at NRO on the folly of Britain’s mad cow policies in the 1990’s, which ruined the nation’s beef industry and which were based on flawed estimates:
As recently as November 2001, a leading researcher into the human toll of the disease estimated that somewhere near 100,000 people would die in Britain as a result of eating infected meat. The same researcher has just quietly released his latest estimates of the future death toll: the best estimate is 40 more deaths.
What’s surprising is that the researchers mention in their new report that the number of cases of human mad-cow disease in Britain so far has only been 121. That's a far cry from 100,000. posted by Sydney on
5/22/2003 08:09:00 AM
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