"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
Even the reality of refuted research is not that shocking, since medicine has steadily advanced despite the fits and starts that mark every learning process. More alarming is the speed with which a single study can become fact--often with the assistance of a credulous or sensation-seeking media--or acquire a power it doesn't deserve in the hands of tort lawyers and activists whose central motive may be unrelated to improving public health. posted by Sydney on
7/15/2005 08:36:00 AM
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