"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
Prion Doubts: Steven Milloy takes a critical look at prions as the cause of mad cow disease and its human counterpart. He says that the prion theory doesn't meet Koch's postulate of infectivity - which includes the successful growth of the agent in a lab culture. But prions are just twisted bits of protein. How could they possibly be expected to grow in a culture dish? posted by Sydney on
1/11/2004 01:29:00 PM
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