"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
MMR Wars: The debate about the MMR vaccine and autism rages on in Britain. This analysis of the root causes of the press fascination with autism and its causes seems accurate:
Although autism has become fashionable in the media, a condition characterised by difficulties of communication remains uniquely terrifying to those who live by the word. For a profession renowned for its sociability, children for whom language and friendship are problematic are a source of potent fears.
P.S. Contra the "she" in that last link, this is not a peer-reviewed journal, at least not as that term is usually understood. posted by Sydney on
11/11/2005 06:42:00 PM
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