In article <[email hidden]>,
hotmoon said:The drug companies invent this drug. Then they figure out if it does anything. If it makes some
symptom go away, whatever symptom, then, if necessary, they invent a new disease name and convince
the idiot MDs that there is such a disease.
Sometimes, Roger, you seem reasonably sane. This is not one of those times. "Idiot MDs?" What's this
-- envy that you were too dim to get into medical school?
Quoted message said:Then they sell it either directly to the MDs or indirectly through the public. Remember FSD. The
idiots define diseases not by causes but by symptoms.
That's what syndromes are all about -- you can sometimes identify a diseased state even if you don't
know what's causing it. They had words for things like colds or flu before we knew about viruses.
Quoted message said:This works out perfectly for the drug companies. This is what they call science.
This is what you call "too hard for Roger to understand."
Quoted message said:But it is really about money and the shallowness of the thinking of the American public. These
greedy drug companies couldn't get away with this if the American public weren't so shallow. MDism
is not about health; it is about money.
Well, golly, thank goodness we have you, with your giant intellect, to set us straight here. Give us
some more contempt for the American public while you're at it -- it makes you look so humanitarian.
Quoted message said:can be fatal. But the drug companies want to make money. They don't give a rat's rear-end about
your health. So, they, in conjunction with the MDs, make the symptoms go away, but the cause
remains. The
Quoted message said:and drops dead of a heart attack.
Except that there are plenty of contraindications to the use of
I suppose they could all learn to live with their impotence, as I gather you have, but maybe some of
them don't want to.
-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my opinions only, but they're almost always
correct. "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my
shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)
